Umair Haque over at Bubblegeneration has a great name for sites that take individual bits of data or media and aggregate them together in a new "cast" or "stream". He calls them "reconstructors" and highlights this sort of service as a killer position in the new media value chain.
A new UK startup called Songkick is a great example of a Reconstructor - they take information about concert tickets from all the major vendors and ticket exchanges and pull them together for you. You can create your own stream based on your itunes music library or personal preferences.
Keep a look out for these guys - they are going to be BIG.
This kind of thing is starting to also happen through iLike on Facebook. I find it kind of intrusive to be honest through that medium. However, the fact that there's nothing more annoying than finding out the next day that one of your favourite band's played down the road and you missed it.
Keep up the good work.
Posted by: ChairmanMeow | 28 January 2008 at 05:41 PM
Officially a very cool idea.
Are the Temperence Seven still performing: I'll find out soon enough!
Posted by: Dan Wilson | 18 February 2008 at 11:41 PM
I met the Song Kick guys recently at the Open Music Meets - nice guys and a cool, clever site :)
Jaz
Posted by: Jaz Cummins | 27 June 2008 at 12:22 PM