PodBop, developed by Taylor McKnight and Daniel Westermann-Clark of Gainsville, FL., launched in Mid Feruary, 2006 is a cool and innovative way to explore the music world. Select a city, discover MP3s, search for a band, go see them... way cool!

Here's the skinny, PodBop will enable users to create a PodBop feed, dump it into your iTunes or other podcasting app., and it will automatically download your city's MP3s to your desktop.

Methodology:

• Events tagged with music are derived from the eventful database
• MP3s are located by diggin into record label websites and places like Music Blogs
• Mapping is developed using DIY Map
• The app is written in Perl using Catalyst

The developer's of PodBop maintain a weblog at http://gtmcknight.com/

On a side note, several bloggers did a great job of posting updates from the event. For examples see Stephen O'grady's blog and Steve Gilmore's weblog.

Other resources:

• http://mashupcamp.com/
• http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady

PodBop - Search, locate, listen, sweet!

http://podbop.org