Posts Tagged ‘awards’

MAX 2009

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

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 is the booth where David Brown from Agencynet and I answered questions about our award nominated mobile application, Fanbase Mobile, for the conference attendees prior to final voting.

Fanbase Mobile MAX Booth

MAX Award Booth

While we’ve been working on a prototype of Fanbase for connected TVs with developer Rhett Woods for a few months now, this was the first time I got to see the app running on a device. This is on a Vizio TV running Stagecraft, Adobe’s Flash Lite implementation for the digital home. Right now connected home products are pretty hard to come by, so it was really exciting to see a working demo of our app.

Fanbase TV

Fanbase TV

Fanbase TV Video

I was also able to see the QNX connected car for the first time. This is another partner (along with Alcatel-Lucent) and I built this version of Fanbase for a custom implementation of Flash Lite 3.1 they have running in the car. I had seen it in emulators and on demo boxes, but there is no comparison to see the app running on a 4G network in the car.

QNX Car

QNX Car

Fanbase Car

Fanbase Car

Fanbase Car Video

NARM Outstanding Achievement – Business Innovation Award

Friday, June 19th, 2009

This year at NARM (the National Association of Recording Merchandisers) awarded Fanbase Desktop a 2009 Outstanding Achievement – Business Innovation Award. The app has been well received by fans, but it’s always great to get recognized by the industry. Other winners this year were Sony, Topspin and iTunes so we are among great company! *Updated with video of Mike Jbara accepting the award.

NARM is a not-for-profit trade association that serves the music content delivery community in a variety of areas including networking, advocacy, information, education and promotion.

And here it is!

NARM Award
narm trophy base

Fanbase Desktop is a Webby Award winner

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Fanbase Desktop is an Official Honoree for the 2009 Webby Awards! Fanbase is Atlantic Record’s proprietary application platform for giving fans access to everything from around the web relating to their favorite musicians on any device, anytime. Read about Fanbase Desktop, get Fanbase, learn about Fanbase Mobile or Fanbase Social. 

Visit the Webby Awards page.

Fanbase Included in list of top 200 Music Startups

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Fanbase has been included as one of the top 200 Music Startups for 2008. It’s amazing to be recognized not only as a record label, but to be in the company of so many amazing technology companies. It makes me proud to be a part of a group that can cross the line between the two. More exciting Fanbase news to come in 2009. 

See the list of startups.

Check out Fanbase.

Two award nominations for Atlantic Records

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Two projects to come out of the lab at Atlantic Records this year were nominated for awards. Fanbase Desktop, our multi-artist AIR application was a semifinalist for an Adobe MAX Award. While we didn’t make it to the final 3 in our category, we are hugely honored to be nominated. 

Also, the Jason Mraz mobile premier we launched earlier this year was a finalist in the MMA (Mobile Marketing Association) Global Mobile Forum Awards.  We’re were up against Jaguar and Dove, and while it’s always nice to win I think that having our department being nominated for these two awards really shows the strength of our current direction and how far we’ve come in the last year.

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