New Podbop Music Service Uses EVDB Events & Venues Database to Power Live

Music Search by City

1st Place Mashup Camp Winner Mixes EVDB Concert Information with Music

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SAN DIEGO, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- EVDB, Inc., a provider of event and
venue aggregation and search technology for online applications,
announced today that its EVDB Events and Venues Database is powering
the live music search function of Podbop, a new service that combines
concert information with podcasts allowing music fans to test-drive
unfamiliar bands before buying concert tickets.

Podbop, available at http://podbop.org , won the first-place Best
Mashup Award at Mashup Camp in California this week for the best
application combining multiple web services. The site was created by
Taylor McKnight and Daniel Westermann-Clark.

Podbop is using EVDB's technology to enable users to search for live
concerts by city. Search results are drawn from the EVDB database, a
collaborative web services platform for aggregating, searching,
indexing and publishing millions of events, venues, calendars and
related information worldwide. The database was integrated into Podbop
using the EVDB Web Services Application Programming Interface (API).

Users interested in learning about bands coming to their area can
download free MP3s directly from Podbop, eliminating the need to track
down websites and MP3s for each performer. The site also allows users
to sign up for an RSS feed that will deliver automatic MP3 downloads
when a band on the system is due to perform in their town. Independent
labels including Saddle Creek, Sub Pop and Vagrant are already
providing free downloads of more than 2,300 songs by 1,500 artists.

"Podbop is just one example of the tools and applications that can be
built with our EVDB API, and industry watchers are saying that it's
the most interesting mashup yet," said Brian Dear, founder and CEO of
EVDB, Inc. "This is the tip of the iceberg in the mashup movement and
the transition to the Web 2.0 era, and the Mashup Award proves that
our platform has legs."

About EVDB

EVDB, Inc. is a provider of search engine and web services technology
for event and venue data worldwide. The company operates Eventful.com,
a website that enables people to discover, contribute and share events
of all kinds around the globe, and makes its EVDB API available to
developers for building tools and applications that interact with the
EVDB database. The San Diego- based firm was founded by Brian Dear, an
experienced Internet entrepreneur, and is backed by investors
including Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Omidyar Network. For more
information, visit http://www.eventful.com . SOURCE EVDB, Inc.