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I can't be bothered to sift through the damn noise on upcoming, etc.
I think this could be turned into a startup. thoughts?
Starting launching a startup in this space, but then took a sharp turn and launched Urbantastic.com instead. The idea was to improve the user experience - basically by putting a Pandora-like system in behind a Google-like front end. We launched it, it worked great. With a few clicks the site would sort everything in the city by what you'd be most interested in, and keep that sorting (without signing up) for the next…
A full-featured event/calendar plugin app might be really cool...
But the "space" is very amorphous. It could include anything from getting twenty people with similar interests together on a Saturday night to rock concert and lecture promotion.
Uh, that doesn't qualify as "sucking"!
has there been any talk of (or is there) an open, xml-based event markup structure? It seems like if there was a widely adoped standard tagging for event data implemented, all kinds of great things could happen in this space.
I wonder if making a good events site is equivalent to being able to create a personalized filter for large, noisy streams of information (Not just events.. I'm looking at you, Twitter). I can't be bothered to sift through the damn noise on upcoming, etc.
This filter might be a search engine but I actually have other ideas on this front...
"I think a spider should be employed that searches the web for events and adds them into the database." Everything but this has been done "well". If you can do this you can make money, but I don't think it's so trivial...
Organizing time-based items is much less trivial than people imagine...
And there is less immediate bang for succeeding than other search spaces. And determining if, say, recurring event is still recurring two months after it is first posted is tricky.
Could a microformat handle the job of tagging an event and let google do the walking? Maybe you could build a startup to organize a portal after that, but can you really crawl better than the big crawlers?
It's has elements of Twitter, but is built specifically for casual social events. Sponty gives users a way to broadcast their social intentions, like "Lunch in Harvard Square", where all their friends are implicitly invited.
In addition, Sponty tries to answer two questions: 1. What are my friends doing today? obviously this doesn't work right away ... you need to have some friends on it first.
2. What are other's doing in Boston/network today? We show you all the public events people have posted in a given network: http://www.thesponty.com/whatsup/#/today/Boston
We're trying to crowd source the answer to this question, because crawling is too hard and too inaccurate. Also, most of the really interesting stuff cannot be crawled.
One more: We categorize events by icons. For example, here are beer related events in Boston today: http://www.thesponty.com/whatsup/#/today/Boston/beer
or music: http://www.thesponty.com/whatsup/#/today/Boston/music
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Starting launching a startup in this space, but then took a sharp turn and launched Urbantastic.com instead. The idea was to improve the user experience - basically by putting a Pandora-like system in behind a Google-like front end. We launched it, it worked great. With a few clicks the site would sort everything in the city by what you'd be most interested in, and keep that sorting (without signing up) for the next…
Hmm... A full-featured event/calendar plugin app might be really cool... But the "space" is very amorphous. It could include anything from getting twenty people with similar interests together on a Saturday night to rock concert and lecture promotion.