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One of the goals of our projects is to take advantage of several other website services to bridge user-experience for a certain goal, in our case, local music scenes. Drawing data from sources like Ticketmaster, LAWEEKLY, and Filter Magazine, our content can be adapted to be placed over an interactive Google Map API. This site proposal is far from being a groundbreaking idea in online concert promotion; however, it will be testament to the limitless utility of navigational data (i.e. Google Maps), which will lead us to infuse a visual relationship to bands touring. It is also proves that Web 2.0 technologies allow sites to become multifunctional, without tremendous effort, thanks to technologies that allow data to be rendered through open-source means.
In O'Reilly's Web 2.0 article, he emphasizes using the web as a platform. He explains that, "Web 2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary, but rather, a gravitational core." We are using this concept as a model for our site. Using a map as our core, users can find information as it relates to the map.
The site will rely heavily on user input and interaction. O'Reilly describes blogging and the wisdom of groups as defining characteristics of web 2.0. "If an essential part of Web 2.0 is harnessing collective intelligence, turning the web into a kind of global brain, the blogosphere is the equivalent of constant mental chatter in the forebrain, the voice we hear in all of our heads." Our website will pool user experiences at particular venues into a "global brain."
The music industry is in a period of flux in which power is being taken away from huge producers and being dispersed among independent labels and artists. We want to acknowledge this change in power and facilitate bands and musicians who book their own shows. The site would be taking information that is traditionally found by managers and making it available to anyone who needs it; this do-it-yourself mentality relates to the way young bands promote themselves online already. We believe this is a practical, relevant project.
