ArtistServer.com, adds a new feature for both artists and members, a map of your fans and friends.

Below, you will see a screenshot of the new "Friend Map" that was added to everyone's friend page. It displays the distribution of people who have added you as a friend on ArtistServer.com. The maps are in Flash and interactive. When you click on an icon, a popup container/bubble displays who it is, their message, and a link to their site on ArtistServer.com.

One of the interesting things about seeing this distribution on a map, is that you can see how a band could organize thei

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Here is a conecpt design for a geocoding idea I recently had for ArtistServer:

artistserver.com/files/GeocodeArtist.png

The idea here is to visualize the data that exists within ArtistServer. This can happen in many ways, especially if the users of the site are geocoded to their city or state or country. Geocoding refers to the geographical point of a location.

To find your geocode - try here: http://brainoff.com/worldkit/geocoder/

Once the users of ArtistServer all have geocodes in the database, the following could be created/visualized on an image of Earth:
Distrib

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