We said it would happen, today it did. Gigulate is launching Music API 1.0.
It’s our first step towards creating a truly valuable API for Music News, Music Blogs and (in the UK, for now) tour dates and concert tickets. We know it’s going to be great fun to develop with. Essentially it’s going to expose the masses of data that we aggregate every moment of the day, we’ve already built Gigulate Charts on it, so we know it’s hack magique.
If you want in, we’re going to restrict access for a bit, so you’ll need to fill out our little form and we’ll be in touch:
http://gigulate.com/api
Here in London, a bunch of us will be going to http://musichackday.org/ in a few weeks. If you don’t get hold of an API key before then, make sure you come to that so you can have unparalleled access to the biggest database of music news, blogs ever and so many tour dates you’ll be hacking faster than you can say Alan Turing (ok… Linus Torvalds).
We can’t wait to see what you might find it all useful for.
Ben
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(Confused? What’s an API?)
Heck! Spend five minutes reading the news this week and you’d be forgiven for thinking the world is falling apart… Big deal! Just make sure you’ve a few bob in your pocket to join us for launchy beers. Yep, Gigulate is so so very close to our first iteration (more of which at the weekend) that the three of us are starting to steam a bit – and the only thing that’ll cool us down is soggy weather and nice draught London beer. From a pub.
So what’s the plan? Erm, pass. All you have to do, is drop your email address in to Gigulate.com and we’ll email you with details of which central London pub we’ll be at on the evening of Thursday October 30th. All are welcome, though we’re operating a strict ‘Geeks Only’ policy on the door, which requires you to be particularly spoddy about something we love – Music, Tech, Robots, Monkeys, Um-bongo – the usual. To get in. Do it now, we’d probably love to see you.
Oh yeah, if you drop your details in you’ll also get into the first round of invites to Gigulate proper. Small bonus.
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(Radiohead in Barcelona by Alterna2, used under CreativeCommons)
Bit of a music industry post. We’ll generally to stick to commentary related directly to Gigulate here, I’m sure John or Duncan are planning to drops some bits in about the way it works or how the design is shaping up to give you more of an idea of how it’s coming together (we’re just days away from our first public beta) now and there’s a couple of things to tidy up – response times are an issue when we’re doing so much computation and we’ve a lot of the experience we still want to build, but it’s all built around the Gigulator and that’s running along just fine – for a six-week old. So we’ll roll it out and start collecting your thoughts on it.
Here’s Gigulate on The Guardian Tech Weekly podcast this week – do listen.
But on to other matters… (more…)
