Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn

Posts filed under Fanbase

New Apple iTunes App Store Layout

Apple has slowly been pushing out updates to it’s app store today. Not all apps are benefiting yet from the new cleaned up interface, but our Rob Thomas Fanbase application was switched over a few hours ago. The layout has a lot more whitespace, larger download/buy button and multiple detail images of the application on [...]

Geekend 2009 Recap

This year I was lucky enough to be a speaker at the first annual Geekend conference. For three days last weekend self proclaimed geeks descended up Savannah Georgia for talks about design, social networking, technology and gaming. The keynote speaker Friday night was Aaron Draplin from Draplin Design. He set a hilarious, open and friendly [...]

The 4G Connected Car Prototype

Today Alcatel-Lucent and QNX announced the 4G connected car prototype in New York. As part of the NG Connect program (an ecosystem built around 4G connectivity) Atlantic Records was proud to create a version of our award winning Fanbase platform for the music fan on the road. The car contains 4 internet connected screens allowing [...]

Adobe MAX Award nomination and conference participation

Last month, I attended the 2009 Adobe Max conference and wanted to share a few exciting developments at Atlantic Records in conjunction with Adobe and the Flash platform. We were nominated for a Max Award and showcased two new products, one for connected TVs and set top boxes and another for the connected car. Below [...]

Interview in Adobe’s Edge Newsletter

I was interviewed a few months ago by Adobe for an article titled “From black box to contextual applications” which ran in this month in Adobe’s Edge newsletter and on the Adobe.com site. The goal of a contextual application is to provide a unified experience across multiple devices, while leveraging the unique capabilities and qualities [...]

Atlantic and Fanbase in Wired and Billboard

Today Atlantic Records and Fanbase received amazing mentions in Billboard and Wired Magazines. Rob Thomas was named one of Billboard’s Top 10 Wireless artists today in an article that highlights his early adoption of the Fanbase platform. They discuss his use of Fanbase Desktop, Fanbase Mobile for Flash Lite, and Fanbase for the iPhone as [...]

Vote for Fanbase Mobile!

At Atlantic we have been working on a project called Fanbase for the last 18 months. Fanbase is a suite of applications that collect content about musicians from all over the web into a single spot that can be viewed on computers, phones and other devices. Earlier this year we won a Webby award, a [...]

Speaking at Geekend 2009

I’m going to be speaking at Geekend in Savannah on November 7th. My talk is called “Connecting Fans with Bands” and will be cover how Atlantic’s Digital Media Group is using design and technology to create new music experiences. To find out more about the conference check out the Geekend site or become their fan [...]

2009 Mobile Excellence Awards – Finalist

Fanbase Mobile is now a finalist for the 2009 Mobile Excellence Awards. We’ve been included in the Best Adapted or Companion Program category along with DirectTV and Zannel. Congrats to our partners at Agency.net who built the Flash Lite app for us. Check out our nomination here.

Fanbase Mobile (iPhone) and the Fanbase Connected Album

Today Atlantic Records launched two important strategic projects for one of our most popular solo artists, Rob Thomas. Fanbase Mobile (for the iPhone) is a framework we have created, in conjunction with amazing development team at Gskinner.com, that is going to allow us to roll out flexible, scalable iPhone applications for all Atlantic artists. Check [...]