Livebrum.co.uk, a new comprehensive event listings site for Birmingham launches on Tuesday 29th April. Find events by genre, venue, date or keyword search and comment on any event.

Harmonising event data across Birmingham

More than just a website, the plan is to accept data in any format (web, email, flyers, word of mouth, etc) and then publish it in a range of standard formats that others can do new exciting things with. Options include:

Feeds everywhere

Subscribe to feeds for today’s events (refreshes daily) or to events on a particular day. Subscribe to events at a particular venue or events in a particular genre. Subscribe to comments about a particular event or all comments sitewide if you want to see what everyone else is saying.

If this sounds sort of interesting but the whole concept of ’feeds’ has passed you by then sit tight, we’ll be explaining how to make good use of them in future posts.

Embed content

You can embed both individual events and listings in your own site or blog. Just copy and paste the supplied code and, You Tube style, the information will automatically be embedded on your site.

Microformats

Microformats are embedded sitewide. More on this in a future post.

iCal downloads

Each event includes a calendar file you can use to automatically add the information your calendar.

Send to a friend

Send an email to a friend with a link to any event.

Comments

Comment on any event.

Book online

If there’s a way to book tickets online then we’ll link to it. If not, we’ll let you know the easiest ways to buy tickets.

Venues and promoters

If you haven’t already then please get in touch so we can ensure your information is absolutely correct.

Want a sneaky peak?

We’re opening the site up for some limited private testing in a few days and if you would like to have a play at that point then do let us know.

Elsewhere

Live Brum can also be found on myspace.com/livebrum and twitter.com/livebrum

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