American Idol
American Idol Double-Elimination Special
Matt Giraud was saved by the judges last week, so two contestants go home tonight. Oh, the humanity. I continue to serve my fellow man by using a powerful business database to summarize American Idol performances. What can I say. I’m a giver. (Non-JavaScript readers – or anyone who doesn’t see the table below – click here.)
American Idol’s Elite Eight
Now that March Madness is over, our attention turns to that other great, annual, single-elimination tournament: American Idol. It’s taken me a while to recover emotionally from the elimination of Alexis Grace, so I haven’t been updating the Contestant Tracker we announced last month. (Speaking of which, thank you to whoever provided the classy Photoshop treatment of my head.) I’m back in the saddle now, ready to resume my public service of summarizing judges’ quotes and adding snarky comments. Last night’s performances are below (non-Javascript readers, click here). Enjoy!
TrackVia's Take on American Idol
American Idol may have added a fourth judge this season, but I bet they don’t know about the fifth judge who resides at TrackVia. What better time to expose the judge then when he is out of the office at the VCIR Winter conference. Who is the TrackVia American Idol judge?
The latest American Idol judge is TrackVia’s co-founder and CTO, Matt McAdams. When he is not leading the development team on the charge to build cool new features and enhancements, he is maintaining his American Idol database. He is so inspired by the show that he occasionally sings to his developers (I will publish a MP3 of that in a future post.
