RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Creating Facebook events is pretty easy to do programmatically, although 
it seems that the default setting is for the event to not show up in 
searches, so you have to manually go change that. Even then I'm not sure 
it's working.

I started fooling around with last.fm when I noticed that flickr 
understood last.fm machine tags, and that last.fm would pull flickr 
photos tagged that way, and match them with events. I'm working on some 
kind of widget that will pull flickr photos from recent local shows 
based on last.fm event tags, so I needed to store last.fm eventIDs in my 
database for that reason.

I can't say that I visit last.fm for any other reason, although in 
theory I can listen to last.fm radio via my Squeezebox, so maybe I'll 
fool around with that once I get bored with Pandora.

I don't think of it as a social networking site so much as just a handy 
aggregator of music-related content.

If there are *other* music-related sites that have APIs available, I'd 
be interested in hearing suggestions from people. The *ideal* site would 
be one where I can code something once and then never touch it again, 
which is emphatically *NOT* the case with Facebook and last.fm. ;-)

Ross

Karen Mann wrote:
> You're creating facebook pages for all events on your list that don't
> already have them?? You definitely get the award for going above and
> beyond the call of duty.
>
> As for last.fm, I haven't really looked into it yet, but notice more
> and more people using it. What does everyone think? Honestly, I'm
> reluctant to get involved with yet another social networking site, but
> since I'm on myspace less and less, it might be a good one to try
> out.
>
> On Jan 3, 10:50=A0am, gr... AT ibiblio.org (grady) wrote:
> > I've been screwing around with Facebook & last.fm integration. At the
> > moment, if one goes tohttp://www.trianglerock.com, one will see links
> > to Facebook and last.fm event listings for each show, which might be
> > handy if you use those services to manage your social life or something.
> >
> > In the case of last.fm, it's also kinda cool because they've got a
> > reciprocal-tagging thing going on with flickr, so *after* an event, you
> > can tag your photos of that event in flickr with a last.fm tag, and
> > they'll show up on that show's last.fm event page.
> >
> > For those shows that don't already have Facebook or last.fm events
> > created by venues/bands, I'm creating them, but it's a freaking drag, so
> > I'd encourage venues/bands to create their own events before I get tired
> > of doing it.