Here's a press release EVDB's PR firm issued after we learned that Podbop won 1st Prize at Mashup Camp:
New Podbop Music Service Uses EVDB Events & Venues Database to Power Live Music Search by City
1st Place Mashup Camp Winner Mixes EVDB Concert Information with Music
Podcasts
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- EVDB, Inc., 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.
Podbop, available at http://podbop.org, won the first-place Best Mashup
Award at Mashup Camp in California this week for the best application
combining multiple web services. The site was created by Taylor McKnight and
Daniel Westermann-Clark.
Podbop is using EVDB's technology to enable users to search for live
concerts by city. 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. The database was integrated into Podbop using the EVDB Web
Services Application Programming Interface (API).
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. 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. Independent labels including Saddle Creek, Sub
Pop and Vagrant are already providing free downloads of more than 2,300 songs
by 1,500 artists.
"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. "This
is the tip of the iceberg in the mashup movement and the transition to the Web
2.0 era, and the Mashup Award proves that our platform has legs."
About EVDB
EVDB, Inc. is a provider of search engine and web services technology for
event and venue data worldwide. The company operates Eventful.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. 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. For more information, visit http://www.eventful.com .
SOURCE EVDB, Inc.
