I’m excited to be sitting on a panel at the Sync Up conference that is being presented by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation.

Friday, May 2 - 10 a.m.
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• Brent McCrossen, President, AudioSocket (Seattle, WA)
• Elliot Adams, Chief Technology Officer, CD Baby (Portland, OR)
• Jon Kertzer, Zune (Seattle, WA)
• Andy Gadiel, Jambase (San Francisco, CA)
• Chris Schultz, Voodoo Ventures (New Orleans, LA)

We’ll be showcasing the Talent Exchange, the music discovery engine that we’ve built for the NOJTF. The Talent Exchange is a beta version right now that was built in a quick timeframe. But in the spirit of release early and release often, we will launch the beta version for Jazz Fest tomorrow, and I’m eager to get feedback from the other participants on the panel and the music supervisors and talent buyers who will be at the conference.

Thanks to Scott Aiges for the opportunity to participate in Sync Up. Look forward to seeing everyone at the conference and at the Fest!

In celebration of my favorite time of year, Jazz Fest, we’ve put together a set of Jazz Fest Cubes to help everyone wade through the wide array of choices this weekend at the Fest.

We were selected by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation to build the Talent Exchange, a music search engine that enables music supervisors and talent buyers to find Louisisana music and artists.

To commemorate the achievement of building this search engine (in just one month… hey, its beta), we compiled the Jazz Fest Cubes. We’re going to be sharing these with our friends who are attending the An Event Apart conference this week, and presumably sticking around this weekend for some music.

Want one?

Come by the Welcome, Party! connecting AEA attendees with NOLA BarCampers today at Lafayette Square for a special professionally printed version. Or hit me up and I’ll get one to you.

Or

Print your own version using the embedded files you see in this post. Print, snip, tape, Voila!

We were thrilled to get to work on the Talent Exchange for NOJHF. Here’s what Scott Aiges had to say about it:

The mission of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation is to promote Louisiana’s music and culture. In support of that, we decided to build a search engine that would give music supervisors an easy way to discover music by Louisiana artists for licensing in film, television and commercials, and for festival talent buyers to find artists touring in their region for live performances.

We hired Flatsourcing to build the Talent Exchange for us. With just a month to build it, they fully committed to the project and got to work. The whole team communicated with us every step of the way, and made sure they shared our vision for the project. We’re thrilled to launch the beta version of the Talent Exchange at our new conference, Sync Up: The Jazz & Heritage Music and Media Market. Thanks to the great team at Flatsourcing for helping us get the job done!

Look forward to celebrating this great time of year with all our local friends and everyone else who’s in town. Happy Fest!