Sunday, January 16, 2005

Cool Upcoming.org features Upcoming.org has some interesting features: US "Metros"--cities with events Most popular events and metros Browse Venues by Metro (Columbus, Ohio) It also offers some interesting syndication formats including RSS (Columbus, Ohio) and iCal (Columbus, Ohio).

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Upcoming.org's limiting policy Upcoming.org has some interesting features, but by its own words, its use is limited: Upcoming.org is not for self-promotion, either by a single organization (e.g. a political candidate, artist, or band) or a single venue. Also, Upcoming.org is not for personal events (e.g. birthday parties, weddings, Little League games). If your event isn't of interest to the public, please don't add it. I would love to use functionality like that of Upcoming.org for syndication of themed events, but its policy prohibits that. And, as far as I know, its functionality is not available in other forms. Well, its feature set is compelling and worth imitating for a calendar syndication application.

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Response to OpenEvents I know I'm following an old, cold trail, but here are some comments I found on the OpenEvents [standard?] I have never heard of it, seen it in action, or seen any kind of spec on what it is or what you think it should be. [Christopher Schmidt] Anything to solve the current calendaring hell. I'm all for the "conversations" that blogs are enabling, but at the end of the day, sometimes I just want to meet people face-to-face. It's a higher bandwidth form of communication, plain and simple. We definitely need something akin to web RSS syndication for events (whatever happened to RDF calendaring?) - assembling centralized event sites make no sense. [Brendon J. Wilson] Hmmm...centralized event sites? Well, they have their place, as long as they are well-themed and focused. But I think Brendan would agree that we should have lots of them--select the ones we want. My goal is to have a centralized event site that offers a standardized client or clients. I want Outlook integration, web accessibility, and extensibility. Is this possible?

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