Boston: The Hidden Hub of Music and Technology

Bandsintown
Headquarters: Somerville, MA
Year Launched: 2007
CEO: Todd Cronin

Bandsintown is a social networking site aimed at helping live-music fans connect with live-music events and fellow fans. It relies on users to collect, post, and rate information about events, creating what founder Todd Cronin calls “the most intelligent, comprehensive, and easy to use live-music event filtering, notifcation, and discovery tool.” The site uses tag clouds to display information about upcoming bands and events, and allows users to narrow down this information according to distance, date range, ticket prices, musical genres, and the like. On October 5, Thrillist lauded the site as “a new free service that’ll aggregate info from all over the Internet to return only those shows that meet your exacting criteria, or the criteria of the people you stole your taste in music from.”

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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/