At the moment I'm working on an HTML template for a tour that hasn't happened yet. In the mean time, anyone have ideas on how this might be able to used in a more news-y context? I'm open to applying something like this in a different way. Maybe following presidential candidates around the country, I don't know.
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I've created a mockup of what this little shindig might look like using Google MyMaps. Very easy to do. The hard part would be making this so any user could submit info and the system would automatically know what to do. I had to manually find the links on the last.fm pages, and I got my setlists from a Wilco-dedicated website. But it gives you a good idea. Next I'll work on one for a tour that hasn't yet started.
Wilco's Summer 2007 tour, first leg.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=102205740458521019897.0004379bb47dd8005acc9&ll=39.571822,-78.442383&spn=19.480747,41.352539&z=5&om=1
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Herein lies posts about my live music Google Maps/Flickr/Youtube mashup thing.
(although I would encourage somebody else to do something about games, or a widget-y thing, for the tween demographic.)
I like how this ended up coming out ... I'm not really into music to the extent the people working on this project are (and don't know if I would actually ever use it because I'm not really the concert-following type), but I think one thing it has going for it is it can be used by people who are either just like me or the complete opposite of me. It's simple and user friendly which is key to getting people into your site.
ReplyDeleteI'm not familiar with lastfm -- are these professional reviews or user submitted? If they aren't user submitted, that another idea to include in this ... people always like a less sterile opinion.
Last.fm reviews are done by users. Not many people actually write reviews, the events section is sorta new.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great jump from idea to execution Tyler. It looks fantastic and works exactly like we were talking about on the conference the other night.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking that it would be awesome to take this element and maybe format it with setlists and possible clips from the show, depending on the band's taping policies. Maybe we could package it so that it can simply be used by fan sites, last.m or some other site of that sort.
This is pretty cool. Is there some way to change the aesthetics of MyMaps? It would be cool if each band could have their own characteristic 'look' to their tour map.
ReplyDeleteI think MyMaps is the way it is, but there's always the API thing. Of course I have no idea how to code, each pushpin info box was made of HTML and that was difficult enough for me.
ReplyDeleteJon--yeah I don't think this would really work as its own site at this point, but I feel like adding it to the Events section of last.fm (example) would be lovely.