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Apple Launches iTunes Web Widgets For Your Blog
Filed in archive Event Software by Mark Brooks on August 10, 2007
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 pa...
Me.com Launches Free Community Builder - SNAPP Free
Filed in archive Event Software by Mark Brooks on July 7, 2007
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. Examp...
Do You Post Events?
Filed in archive Event Software by Linda Roeder on March 28, 2007
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 c...
Socializr: What Friendster Could Have Been
Filed in archive Event Software 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 ...
Event Software Update
Filed in archive Event Software 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...
Upcoming.org Adds Major New Features
Filed in archive Event Software 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 st...
CityCita Going After Meetup
Filed in archive Event Software by pete on July 9, 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 comp...
Zvents: Half way to Revolutionizing Event Promotion
Filed in archive Event Software 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 o...
FindFreeTime: Coordinating Meetings and Phone Calls
Filed in archive Event Software 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...
Google Calendar API
Filed in archive Event Software 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: ...
More from Kiko
Filed in archive Event Software by pete on April 1, 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 onlin...
Amiglia: Calendar and Photo Storage Integration
Filed in archive Event Software by pete on April 1, 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 crea...
More About BusyTonight
Filed in archive Event Software by pete on April 1, 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 ...
Mosuki: Granular Calendar Entry Permission Control
Filed in archive Event Software by pete on April 1, 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 co...
Kiko: Not Just Another Calendar Application
Filed in archive Event Software by pete on April 1, 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, tex...
Grouptivity: Helping Groups Plan Events
Filed in archive Event Software by pete on April 1, 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: Gro...
Event Week Status
Filed in archive Event Software 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 ...
SpongeCell: Bridging the Mobile Calendar Gap
Filed in archive Event Software 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...
Trumba: Helping Organizations Manage Public Calendars
Filed in archive Event Software 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...
Busy Tonight: Crawling, Indexing and Structuring Event Data
Filed in archive Event Software 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, th...
HeyLetsGo: Community + Events
Filed in archive Event Software 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 offlin...
EventSniper: Personal Event Aggregator
Filed in archive Event Software 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 the...
Upcoming.org, Zvents, Eventful: Making Events Findable
Filed in archive Event Software 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 ...
Eventful Creates "DEMAND" for Performers
Filed in archive Event Software by pete on March 25, 2006
Eventful has launched two new features that are extremely cool. In the same way that skobee is helping people plan get togethers, eventful hopes to help performers determine where there is demand for ...
Skobee Changes the Way People Get Together
Filed in archive Event Software by pete on March 25, 2006
I covered Skobee previously here. Skobee is a new service that lets groups of people plan an outing through concensus. The beauty of their approach is that the details don't have to be determined ...
Event Week
Filed in archive Event Software by pete on March 25, 2006
I am going to attempt to highlight 20 web based event services. Events and social networks are a natural match. But, noone has developed the killer social networking event online service. In the last...
Google Calendar Screenshots
Filed in archive Event Software by pete on March 12, 2006
Michael Arrington's got the leak with lots of screenshots and feature info. They are entering the social calendar space: Whenever you create an event, we create a web page which you'll see w...
Meetup Gets Investment
Filed in archive Event Software by pete on March 12, 2006
The social networking website that showed us how to bridge the virtual world with the real world has taken some additional funding from some heavy hitters including ebay. I believe ebay also has an in...
More on Skobee
Filed in archive Event Software by pete on March 5, 2006
Skobee also presented at the Under the Radar Conference during the When 2.0 panel. I previously wrote about them here. Here's what the Under the Radar blog has to say: Skobee isn't another we...
30 Boxes Shows How We Do... Social Calendars
Filed in archive Event Software by pete on February 26, 2006
Scott Rafer gave me the tip on social calendar, 30 boxes. There are atleast 15 startups working on socializing your calendar. These guys seem to have the fastest growth, though. From their blog: We ...
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