Archive for the ‘Caught on the Web’ Category
03.25.08 | Permalink | Comments (0)
I’ve been working on new features and design tweaks at CultureMob.com, but on the side, I’m getting ready to try out a test run on our CultureMob “Street Team” in Seattle. Pending how successful our test run is, what I want to do with it is open it up to CultureMob users to be able to go to shows, hand out flyers and talk us up, and we’ll subsidize a chunk of the ticket (No promises here, folks).
So, our first trial event: Super Sonic Soul Pimps @ the Nectar Fri 3.28.08. This is the band that, back in ‘95, lead me down the path that I’m at today. They are a high energy funk-rock band, which attracted the 16-year-old in me, who happened to be 16-years-old at the time. Ahh, nostalgia. The web was young and I jumped on to do a site for them, under the pseudonym of Captain Fantasy. Now it’s 35 years later and I’m still doing this web thing.
And if you’re looking for a good event in Seattle, check out CultureMob.com. I’ve been messing with this project since it was just an idea 2 years ago. We’ve only been live for 3 months now and still are a little rough around the edges, so I’d LOVE to hear some feedback.
So come on down to the Nectar this Friday and say hi. We’ll make sure to buy you a cranberry juice.
02.01.08 | Permalink | Comments (0)
It’s been up at CultureMob.com for about a week now, but I just wanted to point out how much I love this feature and want to make sure that people see it. We’ve added the ability to save calendar feeds for your recommendations, saved events, custom searches, artists, and venues.
I’ve set up my calendar to auto-update and show any event I save on CultureMob.com to give me a reminder on my computer and phone. I’ve got it in my calendar to tell me about any music that matches “Hip-Hop” AND “Funk”. You could set up a search that populates your calendar to tell you about any event that mentions “kinky fetish sex“. You could follow all the events at Neumo’s on your calendar. Follow your favorite band.
01.30.08 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Part of the reason for putting this blog together was to aggregate all the content on the various web services I’ve subscribed to. I’ve got accounts that I regularly use with Twitter, Last.fm, del.icio.us, and Flickr (which I promise to be a better steward). With all these, I have splintered friend groups that I have to manage individually through each service. The term “Web 2.0″ is (way too) often used to describe services like these that create their own internal networks. Some have said that “Web 3.0″ is the bridging of these networks.
OpenID and OpenSocial seem to be on the cusp of this concept. Another, FriendFeed, seems to be the “I-can’t-believe-that-I-didn’t-think-of-that” dead simple implementations of the concept. It is essentially the same as Facebook’s News Feed feature, but with the most popular web services instead of just Facebook’s features (They’ve got a Facebook app, too).Through this, you can create a feed of all your friend’s activities across the web without having to check a bajillion websites. So check out my feed. Now I can feel like I know you without having a real relationship! If they only had a desktop interface like Twitterific…
FriendFeed is currently a closed beta. Let me know if you want an invite.
09.16.04 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Almost every month down in LA, there is a Thunderdome style “video-off”. Contestants submit their 5-min. entries to a pannel. After the entries are sifted through, they are shown to an drunk audience who votes for the top 5. At the end of the night, the winners are allowed to continue their 5-min. story.I’ve been watching Channel 101 for almost two years; and in that time, I’ve watched the show grow to include entries from all over the states and celebs like Jack Black and Drew Carrey. The bar is raised a little more each month.Highlights include:
