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Songkick

Posted by on Feb 24, 2010 | 10 Comments

It’s been a pretty long time since I’ve been to a concert. I used to go to concerts all the time, but that was before I had a lot of responsibilities. I still love to listen to live music, but it just takes a little more advance planning for me to actually attend a concert. Additionally, if you’re like me, there may be a lot of bands that you like, and they all have different tour schedules, which means that it can be a lot of work to find out who’s coming where and when. With Songkick, all you have to do is wait to be told what’s happening.

This service tracks upcoming concerts from your favorite artists, and it can even do this automatically for you by looking at your iTunes library to find out what you listen to. Not only will you be e-mailed when a concert is coming up, but you’ll also have access to a calendar that organizes all of this information for you. If you see a gig that you’d like to attend, then you’ll appreciate the fact that ticket information from a large number of vendors is available. Even if you can’t go to any upcoming concerts at this time, you can still make use of Songkick’s extensive concert database to share your memories from concerts that took place years ago.

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  • Anonymous

    I agree, there is NO way these things are going to take off. I had a regular Toshiba Satellite that was 499 as well, and it was a full featured laptop that anyone could just install Chrome on…

    These things need to be closer to the $99 range to be worth anything, when you can buy a netbook for $199 and still get more out of it than just web browsing.

  • Kyle Polansky

    Chromebooks really do a great job with their software. The power of web applications, and lack of anti-virus and worrying about updates is worth a lot. I believe Google is creating a great OS, and is trying hard to make it better, but not enough people look at it that way. Comparing to a Windows computer, you pretty much sign in with your Google account, and everything is set up for you. With Windows, so much crap is installed to begin with, I usually have to go out and buy a new install disk just to start over from scratch. I then have to start transferring all of my files and re-installing programs. Once the programs are installed, I have to configure the settings of each one to how it was before. With Chrome OS, you know that you will always have access to the entire OS for free, and many applications like office, have free alternatives (Google Docs) on Chrome OS, which in most cases are a lot easier to manage. Sure they can’t do everything, but for most use cases, they will work fine. If you need advanced software, it most likely won’t be running on a low-end computer anyway.

  • Diljit Babbra

    In essence, isn’t Chromebook just a ‘dumb’ internet reader with a built-in keyboard? Asus Eeepad Transformer seems to be comparable in price yet the tablet can be detached from the keyboard – it offers the best of both worlds. Its also an atrractive design compared to CB’s ‘corporate’ matt black finish. Currently, I’d choose Asus Transformer over CB, unless the 250 price kicks in.

  • http://www.facebook.com/theradcoder Kerwin Roslie

    @ $350 – $500 you can forget about me buying one… I was excited with the initial talks of sub $250 but the current price point is higher than you can get a more capable full computer for.

  • Anonymous

    I just want an android virtual environment in a card of webOS. webOS UX with android apps is a winner. Check out the developments with ubuntu chroot – they’ve had a full desktop OS on there since week3.

    • Tik B Lang

      Me too, I don’t mind running Honeycomb/gingerbread as a card. The second 1.5 Gig is always idle anyway. Maybe I can put that lazy CPU to good use.

  • http://www.kconnolly.us Keith Connolly

    I’m loving this idea and those HP tabs are going to be prime if people can figure a VM or VT style emulation(simulation) of both android and webOS.

  • Mattbugno

    I only want the Davlik VM ported to WebOS, personally WebOS is very elegant.