About MusicPortl.com

MusicPortl.com is intended to be a place where you can get an overview of information about a music artist. To achieve this goal, it takes advantage of state-of-the-art XML webservice APIs that many websites offer today.

MusicPortl tells you about almost every known artists biography by featuring wikipedia articles, links to recent blog posts mentioning the artist you are investigating, shows you photos that have been tagged with the artists name, would it be live shots, portraits or even new works of art influenced by an artists work, let's you see music videos related to the artist, informs you about available releases by an artist, equips you with genre names you can peg the artist into in every pro-founded musical discussion and even suggests you some artists that made comparable pieces of music, creating a great overall starting point for your musical research that gives you an overview of an artist and provides you with links to further information on the web.

The independence of a local database makes it possible to inform you about loads of popular artists, ranging from Pavarotti through Madonna and the Pixies to Metallica, the only limit being what is available on the web about the artist.

To achieve a nice overall look-and-feel, MusicPortl.com takes advantage of great web 2.0 javascript libraries, including Prototype, Script.aculo.us, Lightbox 2 and Tooltip.js and the possibilities of ajax requests, allowing the website to gather information from many third party webservices while still maintaining good page loading times.

MusicPortl.com was created in Hamburg, Germany by Christoph Olszowka. For more information mail to info@musicportl.com.