Yahoo! Events Browser + Upcoming = w00t
November 8th, 2005Author: DialogueMedia
About a month ago, Yahoo! quietly purchased event / calendar / social site Upcoming.org, yet another move showing that smart products and services are rewarded in the end. But it’s not the end for Upcoming – now, it has the opportunity to be shown to Yahoo! users who might have never stumbled upon it, and hopefully for Upcoming users to find some value in the Yahoo! community that they might have not before.
Most importantly though, will be how Yahoo! truly makes its services – Upcoming included – shine in the long term. J-prof Doug Fisher wrote this morning about the demo version of Yahoo!’s Events Browser, created with various Yahoo! APIs, asking “Who would want to go to the typical clunky newspaper community calendar listings after seeing this…?” I would follow that up by asking when we’re going to get to see this meshed with the volume of events housed on Upcoming’s site? Sure, those listings already have links to Google Maps and Yahoo! Maps, but on the other hand you’d be able to go to Yahoo! Maps and find out what kind of events are going on in a particular area. This would work wonders in planning a weekend getaway to a neighboring state, how to kill time during nights when you’re on a business trip in an unfamiliar place, and much more.
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