ARS TECHNICA - Aug 9 - Apple has decided to break into Web 2.0 as it launches a new set of blog/social networking web widgets called My iTunes. My iTunes embeds little widgets on your blog, MySpace...
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THE NETWORK GARDEN -- July 6 -- SNAPP Free provides a free community building system Google ad revenue sharing, 50/50. It's the 'Un-MySpace' where communities are vertically focused....
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Some of the social networking sites have events posting. It's kind of like a calendar where you can post events you are doing or join in events that other people are doing. The cool thing is You...
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by pete on September 18, 2006
So, the secret is out. Jonathan Abrams new startup, Socializr, is in Gamma. Whatever that means. Liz at GigaOm has the scoop. But, Steve Poland discovered a way into the site. The site itself looks a...
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by pete on August 28, 2006
A few sites I've covered here in the event software space have some news. 1. Kiko has sold to the highest bidder on eBay for $285k. (Previous coverage.) 2. HeyLetsGo is rocking along. They got...
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by pete on August 28, 2006
I've been covering the intersection between event and social networking arena here. Upcoming.org started as a way for regular people to enter events and share them with their friends. They are...
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by pete on July 09, 2006
TechCrunch's Marshal Kirkpatrick covers CityCita. Marshall is unimpressed: As far as I'm concerned, marketing of the service so far has not been good. In early outreach to bloggers, the...
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by pete on June 24, 2006
Everyone wants their public events published on the local newspaper'w website and in the print edition. So, if you're trying to build a search engine for websites, you can scrape those sites...
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by pete on May 13, 2006
Matthew McNeely also demonstrated his service at the Web Innovator's Forum. Matt has built a service called Find Free Time. Find Free Time is very similar in purpose to Meet with Approval, which I...
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by pete on April 23, 2006
In my earlier reading and exploration of Google calendar, I missed some important impacts that the Google Calendar API will most likely have. Greg Sterling is to the rescue with some keen insights:...
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by pete on April 01, 2006
Justin Kan, co-founder of Kiko, sent me the answers to the standard interview questions: Who is your average user? Our average user is anyone who wants to easily maintain and share a calendar online....
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by pete on April 01, 2006
In my mid week event wrapup, I alluded to services that are helping us record our experiences and annotate them with time and place as metadata. In English, there are services that are letting us...
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by pete on April 01, 2006
I covered Busy Tonight here. Here's a bit more from an insider: As you might imagine, slicing the web on loose semantic structures is incredibly complicated, so my class was very impressed that...
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by pete on April 01, 2006
In case you don't want your mom to know you're going to a burlesque show, Mosuki lets you control exactly who sees what entry in your calendar: Every event you create can be shared with a...
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by pete on April 01, 2006
From what I've read, it looks like Kiko is different because it offers some fancy Ajax drag and drop features. Ajaxian has a good review of the features: * Appointment reminders via email, text...
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by pete on April 01, 2006
Appmail took notice of event software week and sent some information about about their new web application, Grouptivity. Pamela Njissang sent me a quick explanation of the purpose of Grouptivity:...
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by pete on March 26, 2006
I thought I'd do a little mid way event-week wrapup to summarize the state of affairs. I am obviously obsessed with events and event software. I've been obsessing over the issue of leveraging...
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by pete on March 26, 2006
There's something that really gets me unexcited about the words, "online calendar". Yet, no less than 10, probably closer to 20 companies have recently launched online calendars. While I...
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by pete on March 26, 2006
Trumba makes it easy for an organization to publish a co-branded calendar: They've also created quite some capabilities that let organizations embed calendars right on their website: They've...
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by pete on March 26, 2006
Busy Tonight is an event search engine. Unlike the other event search engines, Busy Tonight's main focus is building their index of event listings from local websites. As of November last year,...
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by pete on March 26, 2006
I reviewed Heyletsgo previously. What struck me about what they are doing that is different than any other event focussed site is that they are building an online community that revolves around...
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by pete on March 26, 2006
Upcoming.org/Yahoo, Zvents and Eventful are aggregating event information for the masses, makes them searchable and provides RSS and ical feeds so that people can subscribe to them. But, none of these...
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by pete on March 25, 2006
Skobee, Eventful's new Demand tool and Meet with Approval are all services that help people bring people together to make decisions and express interest about a particular event. However, there...
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