ShowClix Welcomes Pittsburgh Ticketing Engineers

As a growing tech company, we’re always looking for good ideas and the people who have them, so last night we opened our doors (and our beers) to welcome some of the city’s brightest software engineers.

Over snack trays and a keg, our own engineering team met with the newbs in our ClixCafé to discuss software, tickets, and working at ShowClix.

Will we see any of these friendly faces again in the coming weeks? Only 01110100011010010110110101100101 will tell.

ShowClix Recruiting Event — Software Engibeering

Friends! Software engineers! Come drink our beers!

If you’re a software engineer, check out our special event next week, located in our new downtown headquarters in Pittsburgh. We’ll have locally brewed beers, food, and members of our team to discuss software engineering and ShowClix. Computer science students, grads, and professionals alike: everyone from the software engineering community is welcome to join us.

Reserve a ticket now to join us next week!

SongKick Lists Music Events on Spotify

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In a major announcement today for the Stockholm-based streaming music cloud, Spotify debuted its own app market, Spotify Apps. As a response to criticisms of the platform’s previously barebones discovery system, Spotify revealed new integration with major music/social media crossover Last.FM, as well as several more traditional music cred heads like Rolling Stone and Pitchfork.

Additionally, the application now features a concert and ticket listing app from live music SongKick:

Similar to our iPhone application, our Spotify application will scan your Library on Spotify and figure out which bands you’re listening to and give you an calendar, right within Spotify that shows all the concerts for artists you love, and finds you the cheapest tickets to the show. [via SK Blog]

The update is big news for both music fans and concert promoters, since ticket prices will be available within the app on Spotify itself. As Spotify Apps gain ground with the subscription service’s growing community of users, this integration could prove to be an innovative avenue for connecting new fans with live music at venues around the country.

Other apps announced today for Spotify include U.S. chart-reporting chart-topper Billboard, as well as TuneWiki, a site that posts lyrics without the skeezy pop-up spam of many ad-riddled lyrics resources.

NYE Finder Reveals Awesome New Year’s Events

Whether you’re looking for a packed New Year’s party or you’re planning to pack an event of your own, NYE Finder is a live map of New Year’s events around the country. The site hosts links to pages where you can buy tickets for individual events, as well as a place to start hosting your event for the big night.

As an additional incentive, our event directory regularly posts about your event on Twitter (@NYEFinder) right up until the end of the year.

With over a month to go before the ball drops, the map is already lighting up with parties, cruises, concerts, and massive electronic music festivals like Lights All Night and Masterbeat!

Facebook Implements Less Awkward Event RSVPs

Whether it’s a birthday blowout 400 miles away or “The Solid Dudes’ Last Show EVER!” we’ve all had to click “Not Attending” on a Facebook event.

Maybe a wedding RSVP would add “regretfully,” but it’s still polite enough, right?

Well, it’s not. In effect, non-attendees are proudly — and only sometimes unintentionally — announcing “Nah, I’m good, thanks dude.”

When “Not Attending” counts creep dangerously close to the “Attending,” your event page starts to look less and less appealing to new invitees. Facebook has attempted to address this awkward position with a new update to event pages, a mock-up of which is displayed above:

Facebook has modified its Event pages to hide people who explicitly decline invitations. You can still find out who couldn’t just be cordial and leave the invitation pending by drilling into the renamed “Going”, “Maybe” and “Invited” categories. Facebook’s goal is likely to get more people accurately responding to invitations by making them feel less rude for declining.

Facebook also rolled out a few other refinements to Event pages tonight. If you do decline an invitation, you’ll be prompted to post why on the Event’s wall. This encourages the token invites people send to friends thousands of miles away. These token invites are viewed as needless distractions by some, though others think they are cute ways to remind people you’re thinking of them. [via TechCrunch]

The update is a welcome sign for anyone who’s ever dealt with passive-aggressive statements like “So I saw you’re ‘Not Attending’ Jeremy’s tap dance recital this weekend…”

But will it have an effect on the people who promote events on Facebook, especially on a professional level?