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Find live music near you with Gruvr
But what does Gruvr do, and is it useful?
Enter your city, zip code, or other geographic info and Gruvr will pull up a list of concerts near you in chronological order, starting today. You can limit your search to shows within 5 miles, 10 miles, or some other interval. Gruvr also plots the location of each concert on a Google Map.
Here's where it begins to get a bit annoying. Gruvr will then show information from one location to another rapidly. Too rapidly. It's kind of hard on the eyes. You can also type in a band name and track their tour dates across the country. But the visual experience is a bit jarring. We'll probably stick with Pollstar for now.
[via Mashable]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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taybay said 7:00AM on 9-21-2007
The term "Web 2.0" has now been changed to "Wb 2.0" in accordance with the removal of all "e" letters in wb 2.0 startups.
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Hire a Programmer said 7:01AM on 9-21-2007
Its really helpful to get update and information about music shows. i think in web 2.0 world we might find some sites with more and more functionality. really useful site, thanks for sharing.
http://www.sharpsourcing.com
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FükenGrüven said 12:24PM on 9-21-2007
Hey! Thanks for the observation about the animation - we slowed it down a bit.
When we actually get around to launching this thing, we'll add some kind of speed control.... until then, you can a) click the logo or b) scroll down to see the list of shows.
Meanwhile, the point of the Mashable post was really about the little widget we are pre-releasing to find some partner blogs...
That widget is here: http://gruvr.com/locations/
It automatically detects where you are and puts up a geoRSS feed of very local shows (within like 9 miles). For anywhere on earth where there are gruvrs and concerts...
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FükenGrüvr said 1:20PM on 9-21-2007
Oh and one more thing.
As to the name... well, it's also a cultural allusion to a pre-web 1.0 phenom!
Before you accuse us of being web2 copycats, note
the umlaut over the "u". As your dad what a "FükenGrüvr" is :-) He may start dancing.
See, once upon a time, there were these people who used to drive around following certain bands so they could keep dancin'. The favored vehicle was VW bus or beetle. Dancing. Driving...
In 1989, Volkswagon launched the Fahrvergnügen ads and bumperstickers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdQY_BZE2uE
It was a cool concept, with a little stick figure
illustrating the 'pleasure of driving'.
Well. One day, one of us gruvin' folks had a flash of inspiration and said 'Fahrvergnugen? I'm...I'm - FükenGrüvin!! ... and overnight, tons of VW vehicles of the era were sporting little parody stickers, with a Dancing sticky:
http://gruvr.com/sticky.gif
What made the parody funny was - well, it wasnt literal F*cking obscenity - so of course, you shouldn't spell 'groover' out either.
So, fast forward say 17 years... we still have people who love live music, like THIS:
http://gruvr.com/band/darkstarorchestra
See the connection? But since the perfect domain names were gone... it seemed apropos to slice off a letter or two. And if you sign up for gruvr, you get a funny little surprise to make the rest of the connection :-)
So now you know the REST of the story.
Good day.
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