What is PickRSet.com?

In one word: Connection. This site allows bands to communicate with their fans and allow the fans to actually feel like they are part of the show and that their voice really matters. Let’s be honest, without the fans you don’t have a show, so why not try and give them what they want? That being said, if the band doesn’t play everything in the proposed set or, heck, doesn’t play anything from their requests (which is possible) it’s their choice. After all, it is their band.

Where is the startup based in? Who are the founders?

San Clemente, CA. Founding Members: Chris Siglin, Mark Hoppus, Jay Bentley and Shea McQuestion.

What is this startup about?

The site is used to help promote bands that tour and they catalog of music that they have. The main feature is pickRset which is a built from the ground up application to allow fans of music to request songs for live performance as well as review shows, purchase merchandise, by tickets and much much more with new features always being added.

What makes this startup special?

This is a site by bands for fans. They feature the one of a kind first every setlist requesting tools. Since our launch in July of 2007 as a simple poll we have been dulicated in poor fashion by major recording artists which loved our site.

What is the objective of the founders?

To stay true to the fans and bands by creating new and exciting ways to engage fans to come to live performances and feel like they are part of the shows. Having worked in the music industry and having bands that have been touring for as long as 30 years now they know what it takes to keep selling tickets.

Does this startup need an investor?

They currently have self financed everything but are currently looking for investors to maximize exposure.

Pangaea (pan-GEE-ah), as many may know, was the name of the Super Continent before the continental divide. Instead of a divide, the concept of Pangaeaa came about because of the need for a place where artists could come together and express themselves and share their unique talents with others. As the concept grew from an idea for a community, the thought that not only should artists have a place to share their art, music, and literature but they should also be able to achieve some financial gain from their hard work. The internet has changed the way we communicate, entertain ourselves, and purchase goods and services. So the internet offers the perfect place for Artists to come together, share their talents, and participate in e-commerce.

Users can search and listen to any desired album, music video clips, individual tracks, and other users’ playlists.

Jogli is also a music community. Any user can be a VJ, creating and sharing play lists with friends. Users can review, chat and respond to each other’s “MTV channels”.

Now you can click and play tens of millions of albums and hundreds of millions of songs – it’s free, its legal, it’s easy.

Our mark for this site is: 7/10

Theyare a Concert Experience Archive and Concert News Outlet. This basically means that they organize your concert reviews, tour journals, pictures and videos by artist and concert date which, makes them easy to find and makes them part of history. When you post your concert pictures of your favorite artists just in your Myspace profile or Facebook, that makes it hard for other fans to find them and comment on them. On those type of websites it is difficult to share pictures and opinions of the concert you went to with fellow fans outside your network because they won’t be able to find or access them.

If you post your concert content at ConcertAttack you won’t have to search thousands of web pages and social network profiles to find out about what’s going on at your favorite artists’ concerts and you will be able to easily share your concert stuff with fellow fans. That’s a piece of cake, isn’t it?

So what can you do using this startup? Just few points:
- Share your concert pictures, videos and reviews that can be left in both video and text formats.
- Recommend artists to see in concert.
- Use widgets to place your concert content on other profiles and web sites.
- For Artists, create video tour journals for your concerts
- Share your concerts with your friends.
- Set reminders for the concerts you are attending.
- Make new friends and fans.

Text to Speech technology is the ability to turn text information into clear sounding, speech. While the concept has existed since the early 1930’s, only until very recently has ReadTheWords.com, and their partners, made huge breakthroughs in the quality of this technology.

What can you read?

“We provide users various ways to let us know what to read. You can always write text, or copy text from another file, and paste it into our text box. We also have a file upload section, where you can upload any Microsoft office document, Adobe PDF, txt, and HTML document. You can also tell us a website address, or RSS feed url, and we can read that as well”.

The initial public release of bandFIND.com comes packed with more than just social networking features. “The reason social networking is largely looked at by the professional community as nothing more than an advertising medium is simply because up until now it has served no real purpose. The social networking model has simply been an avenue to catch up with old friends, share media, and find dates,” says Chris Purifoy, the founder of bandFIND.com. “I believe that the model is fairly young. The possibilities for social networking to expand into the world of professional ‘utility’ are astronomical. At bandFIND, we consider ourselves a ’social utility’, offering a line of impressive services for musicians, bands, and professionals built around and within the community that a social network provides. The social platform is just the tip of the iceberg.”