Migration to facebook complete

We've finished the move to posting updates over on our facebook page at http://facebook.com/chimeinteractive so please join us there for the latest and feel free to browse the older archives that remain here.

Fan-Funded Tour Media Generation

I thought I'd post this in advance of the panel I'm moderating at Brian Zisk's always-interesting SF Music Tech Summit tomorrow. It's a panel about Live and Online and by happenstance this project I talk about below is something that I'm right in the middle of developing. --jon

Background

As part of ongoing digital strategy brainstorming for Joe Satriani and his new album Black Swans & Wormhole Wizards, I had all sorts of hopes for finally incorporating some cool social media aspects on the tour to keep the conversation that we began with the killer podcast series going. Things looked good in that a friend and workmate (video co-director) Arthur decided to take a break from his routine and go out and drum tech. I had images in my head of daily ticket giveaways to the first people to respond to tweets and show up at local cafe's and photo galleries (did I mention he did photography of Woodstock for Rolling Stone, too?), plus occasional on-the-road video podcast episodes.

But as we know, reality always comes home to roost. Anyone who has been involved with touring knows that they have a life of their own and tend to suck up all available time. This tour was no different, especially with two new band members (Mike Keneally and Allen Whitman) and starting in Europe with rented gear and a constantly evolving stage production. Arthur was completely swamped, and the only content that I was able to get was from going over there myself and shooting a few shows. I returned home a bit disheartened about the likelihood of being able to create something that lives in the road experience and keeps the fans connected throughout in a way far beyond fans just posting reviews and shaky video and blurry photos (though, to be fair, there are fans who produce *amazing* content).

user_list module patch

This is a patch to fix "other" listing in the user_list module and also adds new custom menu path feature.

There is a bug where the "other" listing includes users whose usernames begin with 'z'. This patch fixes this bug.

This patch also adds a new feature to allow customization of the menu path. The default remains "userlist" but the settings form now allows you to change it to a custom path.

http://drupal.org/node/837738

Patch for Notify module

On an active site, the notify module doesn't play nicely with cron. Simply put, it can't send out the emails quick enough, so cron times out and notify doesn't update it's last run time so the next cron run it starts all over again. This results in a *lot* of duplicate emails to people.

This patch should fix that:

http://drupal.org/node/365700#comment-3156896

Updates on Facebook now

For general CHIME project and site update news, I've switched over to posting to the CHIME Facebook site. For the time being I'll keep labs.chime.com around for any more specific building related tidbits I have time to share.

In the meantime, check out http://facebook.com/chimeinteractive which includes news about other Tom Petty site updates, a brand new web site launch (another great Drupal case study!) for Sammy Hagar (http://www.redrocker.com/), and time we've been spending in the studio with Joe Satriani and Los Lobos.

new tompetty.com launched

Another great PROD-designed site and for this one it was a LiveNation project so we implemented it using the LiveNation CMS system. http://www.tompetty.com/

Moonalice Twitter Radio Launched!

we've finally launched a nice little app we built a couple months ago called Moonalice Twitter Radio. it's an automated playlist system that allows bands (moonalice in this case) to send out timed links to media files through their twitter channel, effectively giving away their music to their fans in the spirit of tape trading -- share the music and support the band by coming to shows and buying merch!

admins can also dedicate certain tracks to users which heavily increases the re-tweets in the community and strengthens the bond between fans and artist.

new benharper.com!

after the october launch of the revised ben harper site with community interaction and the latest primedrupal drupal ajax framework, this launch about a month later includes a full on assault of archive materials (over 6 thousand tour photos alone!)-- the full gigography with setlists from ben's entire career, plus full album streaming, user playlists, contests and more!

oh yeah, it also is our first site to feature facebook connect integration which is mighty handy now that almost everyone has a facebook account. try it out!

http://www.benharper.com/

chickenfoot deluxe limited edition cd/dvd released!

we're incredibly pleased to announce the release of the DELUXE LIMITED EDITION of the chickenfoot album. this release includes the CD with an extra bonus track plus a DVD with an hour of bonus live, studio and misc footage that was produced by chime and edited by jon luini and arthur rosato. even cooler, this packaging is reactive to black light to reveal hidden artwork and text.

pick it up at best buy today! http://www.bestbuy.com/chickenfoot

ben harper & george harrison

More site launches recently-- this time a new site for George Harrison and a big update for Ben Harper & Relentless7 that both share the new and improved Drupal/Ajax framework that we've been working on for quite some time.

http://www.benharper.com/
http://www.georgeharrison.com/

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