music, Entertainment, Internet
Boston: The Hidden Hub of Music and Technology
Wade Roush 10/17/07
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Tourfilter
Headquarters: Cambridge, MA
Year Launched: 2005
Founder: Chris Marstall
Tourfilter helps music fans track their favorite bands. Members can create calendars of upcoming shows, see their own calendars and their friends’ calendars together, listen to MP3 and RealAudio tracks by their bands, browse music blog posts by band, and get show alerts via e-mail, RSS, or iCal. “We used to miss too many shows—we’d hear about them after tickets they sold out, or worse, read about them in the Globe the day after,” the founders write in the site. “So we wrote a program to download all the area club listings daily, search for bands we liked, then send out email.” Rolling Stone said Tourfilter “could become the Craiglist of the concert-info world,” and the site was nominated for a 2007 Webby Award in the music category. …Next Page »
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10/17/07 1:20 am
This is all true, as a Boston area musician, I can say that there are much more opportunities here for musicians than most anywhere else. I believe Boston has the most shows than any other city on any given night. The technology is also very true, with MIT, etc. however, it is a very tough business to be in. I own a record label and just released an album for the band theINFORMATI http://www.myspace.com/theinformati And we believe it will explode because of the Boston/Cambridge scene.
10/17/07 8:36 am
Don’t forget Tourfilter, the most popular concert notification service: http://www.tourfilter.com
10/17/07 11:27 am
In addition to Tourfilter, there’s also http://tourb.us and http://bandsintown.com. Boston appears to be a concert tracking hub!
10/17/07 2:18 pm
In terms of local area software companies with some sort of music/media technology, there also is Peermeta (www.peermeta.com) in Acton with a mobile content / Web 2.0 twist.
11/3/07 4:30 pm
So it seem like after Venue Czar conquers Vermont, they should target Boston? Venue Czar is the ultimate localized online booking platform.
11/7/07 5:26 pm
You could add us to this list as soon as we’re out of stealth mode. (http://www.conduitlabs.com)