Thursday, August 7, 2008

TuneWiki on TechCrunch

TechCrunch has done a very flattering profile on TuneWiki.

Why do I care? Because I've been doing some consulting work for them since early July to help with their round 2 effort for the Android Developer Challenge. I've had a lot of fun working with Zach Hobbs and Chad Kouse on this project, and I'm very proud of how far the app has come in these few short months.

My work was primarily on the mapping functionality. Zach originally pinged me because of the map experience I had from Geomata. The map stuff in TuneWiki is much more advanced than what I originally implemented for Geomata, although you can be assured that I'll be beefing up Geomata's map interface quite a bit before the next release.

And of course, my favorite part of the article:

"Perhaps most exciting is TuneWiki’s integration with location services. Because the player can optionally tell TuneWiki’s servers what song you’re listening to, it can offer an interactive map that displays musical tastes across the world."

Here's the video demo :