Here's my notes from Brian Dear's presentation on Eventful at the O'Reilly Emerging Tech conference — Brian presented on his company, EVDB, an events database that tries to do for live shows and other gatherings what IMDB does for movies. The neat thing is his new feature — "Demand" — which helps fans get together to create demand for the kinds of shows they want, and then communicates the demand to performers.
Eventful "Demand" tool helps fans demand the live shows they want
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