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March 8, 2006
[etech 06] Brian Dear (evdb) - When do we get the events we want?
EVDB - Founded in 2004 to maximize event discovery.
Building a web services API platform and an event portal built on that platform.
The platform - REST-style API: api.evdb.com. Podbop is a mashup based on this.
The portal - eventful.com - a site to discover, post, and share events. Three dimensions to events -
Known events (search, calendars, tags, rss & ical feeds, groups, friends family contacts, auto-submit, iTunes import > calendar, AIM EventfulBot, Performers) everything tagged with hcal and hcard.
Expected Events - Prospective Search, notifications/alerts
Dream Events - events you wish would happen. tools for demand aggregation - not onlyh for fans, but for performers. Along with noticiations and alerts. ROlling out the first phase of this today - called eventful demand. Not just a "wish list" but the possibility of fulfillment. A marketplace for experiences.
They have some cool tools for creating and nurturing a demand for an event, including emailing people, and stickers you can put on your site.
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Posted by oren at March 8, 2006 10:01 AM
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