1st Place Mashup Camp Winner Mixes EVDB Concert Information with Music
Podcasts
SAN DIEGO, EVDB, Inc.com
MySpace. As the 7th most trafficked
web domain on the Internet*, MySpace.
bands place
Podbop is using EVDB's technology to enable users to search
for live
concerts by city.
Users interested in learning about bands coming to their area can
download
free MP3s directly from Podbop, eliminating the need to track down websites
and MP3s
for each performer.
Queens of the Stone Age's new CD follows its critically acclaimed "Songs
for the Deaf.
"We are excited to have one of the most critically acclaimed rock bands
debut
their album on our site," said Chris DeWolfe, CEO of MySpace.com is
committed to providing the highest
quality user experience and will continue
to innovate new features that allow its users to express
their creativity and
share their lives with their friends.
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Through their exclusive
album release on MySpace, Queens of the Stone Age
and Interscope are reaching over 11 million users
who look to MySpace for
"what's next" in music. MySpace.
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org , won the first-place Best Mashup
Award at Mashup Camp in California
this week for the best application
combining multiple web services. The San Diego-
based firm
was founded by Brian Dear, an experienced Internet entrepreneur,
and is backed by investors including
Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Omidyar
Network. Beginning March 15, Album to Stream Exclusively on
MySpace.com
is the most widely-used and highly regarded site of its kind.fan bands
The site was created by
Taylor McKnight and
Daniel Westermann-Clark." The first single, "Little Sister" is currently #2
on the
Billboard Modern Rock Chart.com is the premier lifestyle portal for networking online.arts brian
Podbop, available at http://podbop. For more information, visit http://www. "MySpace
is a great
fit for the Queens of the Stone Age, because there is a large group
of hard core fans who will spread
the word to other QOTSA fans as well as
those discovering this band for the first time."
About MySpace.bands music
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Independent labels including Saddle Creek, Sub
Pop and Vagrant are already providing
free downloads of more than 2,300 songs
by 1,500 artists."
About EVDB
EVDB, Inc
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accessible at http://www.Matchbox Twenty bassist.
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The database was
integrated into Podbop using the EVDB Web
Services Application Programming Interface (API).com, a
website
that enables people to discover, contribute and share events of all kinds
around the globe
, and makes its EVDB API available to developers for building
tools and applications that interact
with the EVDB database.com .com, the leading lifestyle
portal for networking online, announced today
the world exclusive debut of
Queens of the Stone Age's highly anticipated new album, "Lullabies to
Paralyze" before its release in stores on March 22nd."
"MySpace's is a compelling content
distribution platform," said Courtney
Holt, Head of Creative Marketing, Interscope Records.
Integrating
web profiles, blogs, instant messaging, e-mail, music downloads,
photo galleries, classified listings
, events, groups, chatrooms, and user
forums, MySpace has created a connected community where users
put their lives
online.yale artists
, a provider of event and
venue aggregation and search technology for online
applications, announced
today that its EVDB Events and Venues Database is powering the live music
search function of Podbop, a new service that combines concert information
with podcasts allowing
music fans to test-drive unfamiliar bands before buying
concert tickets. Search results are drawn
from the EVDB database, a
collaborative web services platform for aggregating, searching, indexing
and
publishing millions of events, venues, calendars and related information
worldwide. "This
is the tip of the iceberg in the mashup movement and the transition to the Web
2.site brian
0 era, and the
Mashup Award proves that our platform has legs. With over 180,000 artists who upload songs, promote
concerts and connect with fans through blogs, postings and messaging,
MySpace's viral network
adds a new dimension to the way music is introduced to
fans. The website's uniquely networked music
environment has become a
favorite for both fans and musicians.bassist matchbox
is a provider of search engine and
web services technology for
event and venue data worldwide.myspace.matchbox bands
New Podbop Music Service Uses
EVDB Events + Venues Database to Power Live Music Search by City
MySpace Launches Exclusive Album
Premiere of Queens of the Stone Age's 'Lullabies to Paralyze'
com Through
March 22
LOS ANGELES, MySpace.
Beginning at 12:00 PM PST on March
15th, music fans were given exclusive
access on MySpace to a full stream of Queens of the Stone Age
's album
"Lullabies to Paralyze" which can be shared with other MySpace friends by
passing on the
band's profile link to their network.m site
The site also allows users to sign up for an RSS
feed that
will deliver automatic MP3 downloads when a band on the system is
due to perform in their town.
"Podbop is just one example of the tools and applications that can be
built with our EVDB API
, and industry watchers are saying that it's the most
interesting mashup yet," said Brian Dear, founder
and CEO of EVDB, Inc. The company operates Eventful.com/queensofthestoneage. "Buzz for new music
spread
through personal contact of one fan to the next is a powerful concept,
and Interscope is looking
forward to a continuing partnership with MySpace.fan music
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