Archive for the ‘Product Development’ Category

Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights Website Launch

Monday, March 8th, 2010

On Friday we lauched our newest artist website on Cisco’s EOS platform for Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights. The site was designed in house by one of our talented web designers Priyanka Batra (her last before going off to freelance full time) and was managed and built by the talented web teams at Atlantic Records and Warner Music Group.

Jonathan Tyler Website Homepage

Beyond a stylish yet clean design, and the great community features our fans have come to expect from our websites, we rolled out some exciting new features centered around concerts. For some time now we’ve wanted revamp the tour experience on our artist’s websites, and JTNL is the first site to include some of these new ideas.

The Archive

Across the music industry most artist websites do a fine job of alerting you to new tour dates, but very few have given much attention to past shows. Live shows are a huge part of the music experience and we wanted to add features to our web platform to reflect that. The ARCHIVE section of the JTNL site displays past shows and allows fans to interact with those shows in new ways.

Jonathan Tyler Show Archives

Jonathan Tyler Show Detail Page

You can now rate shows, comment on your experience or upload videos or photos you have taken at the show. Beyond allowing user generated content each show has the official setlist, and on the JTNL site, each show can be downloaded in its entirety for free via Topspin! It’s a great way to experience this amazing live band and share your experiences with other fans.

Check out the new Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights site.

QNX Connected Car case study on Adobe.com

Monday, March 8th, 2010

There is a new article on Adobe.com talking about the success of the Connected Car project by Alcatel-Lucent and QNX software. The article focuses on the development platform QNX has created for automobiles using Flash Lite, and mentions the success Atlantic had porting our Fanbase application to the platform. There is also a short quote by yours truly. A great project to be a part of and continued success to QNX.

Check out the full article here.

Read more about our involvement in the project here.

Brightcove Unveils Mobile Experience for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 with Atlantic Records

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Today Brightcove announced the availability of their platform on smartphones powered by Adobe’s upcoming Flash Player 10.1 for mobile devices. With some help from our video and studio team we were able to update Kidrock.com and Shinedown.com to work with the new player, as well as creating a mobile version of our studio website Studio1290 using Brightcove’s new mobile video player. While the technology is still in beta, we at Atlantic are really excited about the possibilities of this new distribution method.

Read the full press release here.

Iconfinder.net – Icon Search Engine

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Iconfinder is a search engine for (you guessed it) icons. It’s a great source for graphic designers to get inspiration or even download icons for commercial use. A search for “music” yielded 12 pages of results, the first of which is displayed below.

The site’s functionality is fairly basic but does allow you to change the color behind the icons to see how they work on multiple backgrounds, filter by the type of license, and filter by size.

Try out Iconfinder here.

Online iPhone Mock-up Tool

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Lukas Mathis has created a really nice iPhone mockup tool in Flash. This web based tool lets you create wireframes for iPhone apps by dragging and dropping simple components onto a phone and sharing the url. You can create final pieces that look like either illustrations or sketches. A nice tool for simple mocks when a napkin just won’t do. Check it out here.

Fanbase Desktop featured in the Adobe Download Manager

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Fanbase desktop is now a featured app in the Adobe Download Manager. Adobe customers who download Acrobat will also be given the option to download several AIR applications, Fanbase being among them. A great promotion for our application and our artists from our partners at Adobe.

fanbase in the adobe download manager

Avatar Fanbase Launch and New Press

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Two mentions for Fanbase came out in the wake of our launch of the Avatar Soundtrack Fanbase. We worked alongside Fox to launch both Fanbase Social and Fanbase Desktop for Avatar.

Check out the link on the official movie site below.

We also received two great mentions for the platform with TrendHunter.com calling Fanbase “trail blazing music promotion” and GetToTheFuture.com giving us a great review. Check it out!