Monday, January 01, 2007

More on All Crazy Style - Show Alerts

I posted a few days ago about the mashup of Last.fm and Upcoming.org, called AllCrazyStyle. As mentioned in that post, I then took the resulting feed and input it into my AOL Alerts so that when a band that I like was playing in my area, I would get an alert via IM, Email and/or SMS. Well, I just got my first one...



If I still went to a lot of shows (ah... the good ole days), this would be an indespensible tool. If I didn't have this set up, I'm guessing that I would have never known about this show until it was too late. There is another service called Track50 that does similar alerts, but it requires you to manually enter the bands you are interested in - something that changes far too frequently for me to make that service useful (and it continually thinks I'm in New York City... which I'm not).

Now, if I could only motivate myself to start going to shows again....

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