Mobile Media & Cine Apps
Chicago-based Music Festival startup Showfile.fm (http://showfile.fm)
rolls out the new version of their award winning app. What started as a mobile
app for Lollapalooza in 2011 has grown to become a full fledged multi-festival
web application with a focus on live performances and user ratings. Showfile does this by accessing a number of APIs. For example, the YouTube API is accessed to provide videos of live performances, the Soundcloud API to stream new music (many artists like Phoenix and Diplo post new tracks and remixes to Soundcloud first), and the Last.fm API to provide additional artist information. SeatGeek's API is also accessed so that people can find tickets to shows even when they are sold out through conventional channels. Showfile includes other features like their 'Showfile Showdown' which makes building a schedule more fun. In the 'Showdown' two bands competing for the same time slot are pitted against one another with their corresponding live videos and users need to decide which they'd see. Showfile is more than just a way to preview a festival and create a schedule,
it also allows users to save and rate the shows they've seen. "Your 'Showfile
Vault' saves the details of your festival experience" says Marketing Director
and Showfile co-founder John Fitzsimmons. "It's like the old cigar box
where you kept your ticket stubs, but now technology lets us take it to the
next level." When not developing the next successful web and mobile applications you can find the Showfile team out at one of the many beautiful Chicago Summer Festivals. Resources:
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