Boston: The Hidden Hub of Music and Technology

Tourfilter
Headquarters: Cambridge, MA
Year Launched: 2005
Founder: Chris Marstall

Tourfilter helps music fans track their favorite bands. Members can create calendars of upcoming shows, see their own calendars and their friends’ calendars together, listen to MP3 and RealAudio tracks by their bands, browse music blog posts by band, and get show alerts via e-mail, RSS, or iCal. “We used to miss too many shows—we’d hear about them after tickets they sold out, or worse, read about them in the Globe the day after,” the founders write in the site. “So we wrote a program to download all the area club listings daily, search for bands we liked, then send out email.” Rolling Stone said Tourfilter “could become the Craiglist of the concert-info world,” and the site was nominated for a 2007 Webby Award in the music category.

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Author: Wade Roush

Between 2007 and 2014, I was a staff editor for Xconomy in Boston and San Francisco. Since 2008 I've been writing a weekly opinion/review column called VOX: The Voice of Xperience. (From 2008 to 2013 the column was known as World Wide Wade.) I've been writing about science and technology professionally since 1994. Before joining Xconomy in 2007, I was a staff member at MIT’s Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, serving as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and executive editor of TechnologyReview.com. Before that, I was the Boston bureau reporter for Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia. I have a B.A. in the history of science from Harvard College and a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT. I've published articles in Science, Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Technology and Culture, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and World Business, and I've been a guest of NPR, CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and the PBS NewsHour. I'm a frequent conference participant and enjoy opportunities to moderate panel discussions and on-stage chats. My personal site: waderoush.com My social media coordinates: Twitter: @wroush Facebook: facebook.com/wade.roush LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/waderoush Google+ : google.com/+WadeRoush YouTube: youtube.com/wroush1967 Flickr: flickr.com/photos/wroush/ Pinterest: pinterest.com/waderoush/