Hello folks!
I would like to introduce our brand-new release, Gigulate Widgets.
With Widgets we’ve tried to make it super simple for anyone to take music news or gigs and make a super simple Flash widget to embed into pretty much anything.
So whether you want a widget showing the latest Vampire Weekend news or the most important gigs in your area, for example: London, it’s super easy. What’s more, Gigulate’s widgets are fully customisable and super-smart.
(You’ll notice that I’ve dropped an example Nine Inch Nails news widget into the page just to give you a taster)
Also, you may recently have noticed the look and feel of Gigulate gradually changing. That’s because we’ve been updating the design. It’s Gigulate 1.6 – part of our ongoing process to improve and tweak the experience.
We’d love your feedback on both the new design, and our new widgets. Try them out for yourself in the new Gigulate Widgets section.
Pip pip!
John.
Wow… it’s been a busy few months since we last posted (we’ve been readying our next big release – more on that soon). Coming this weekend is Music Hackday (11th – 12th July 2009 @ Guardian Offices in Kings Cross, London), we’ll be hosting our APIs along with Last FM, Echo Nest, SoundCloud & Songkick. Personally, I’m excited about the midnight code session that’s going to mean a heinous Red Bull and coffee cocktail.
Sadly all the developer positions are now full, but if you’d like to come down on the Sunday and see the hack presentations in the afternoon you can still register.
If you’re coming along for the weekend or the presentations, don’t be afraid to introduce yourself to any of us Gigulate humans (Hackers – do grab a Gigulate API key). Bring on the hacking.
John
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?)
