Fanity – It’s Google Alerts On Crack – For Music
Fanity, a brand-new music startup, is both awesome and scary. On one hand, the company has put together a very clean and comprehensive way for fans to track their favorite artists.
On the other, it almost does too good of a job at it.
If you're a Katy Perry fan, which I'm sure most of you are, you can cross-section your fan updates into blogs, photos, and tweets, among other things, and get up-to-the minute news on what Perry is doing. If you only want to read Perry news updates that relate to Russell Brand, her husband, you can do that. You can also read about how Perry’s daily work-out routine still encompasses jumping rope.
It's all there. Fanity is like Google Alerts on crack.
Of course, how much a fan gets out of the service will be limited to how many news and Twitter updates there are floating around about their favorite artist.
If you're a fan of popular culture and want to stay up on your celebrity gossip and happenings, but don't want to check everywhere, Fanity is your new bestfriend.
Randomly, I searched for "Hole" in Fanity, the band of Courtney Love, and found one of the small flaws of the site. Given that "Hole" is a fairly common tern, their aggregation tools aren't able to tell the difference between "Google Sales Boss Nikesh Arora Nails A Hole In One" and "Classic Hollywood Movie Spotlight: The Black Hole" and well, news that actually has to do with Hole and Courtney Love.
So far though, Fanity has a great site, as long as you don't like The Cars or Tool.
well if i put the name of my band “The Hazy Hollow” it cannot find any relevnt result, i guess the are working on a subset of data and not crawling everyting like google does..
I think I will stick with google alerts for now until this platform ages a little more because I searched a couple Artists on there and came up with zilch..its a good idea though..and i will definitely bookmark it
@The Hazy Hollow, at the moment our system is build to analyze English text only and since you are a Spanish band we can’t offer your fans the complete Fanity experience.
@TM101 Radio, I would love to find out which artists you’re missing and I would be happy to add them. We already have a lot of artists in our system, but it could occur we haven’t added your favorite artists yet. Please send me a list of artists you would like to add to your Fanity stream (use our support@ mailaddress. BTW, You’ll be able to make suggestions on the site very soon.
Thanks for your feedback.
@Kyle, thanks for covering us. Love the article!
Didn’t have time to browse too much, but seems impressive at first glance. Kudos, and will check out more later.
I’m going to check this out and see how the results are different from google alerts.
It will be great if they have an RSS feed on people that you fan so that you can throw it into google reader.
This could be useful for bands tracking what’s going on in their scene.
– Chris