The Return of Upcoming.org by Andy Baio
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The Return of Upcoming.org by Andy Baio
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Re: The Return of Upcoming.org by Andy Baio
#2Andy is too humble to mention it, but he is an alumni of Kickstarter, joining them in 2008 and was at one point the CTO.
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#3What does Upcoming.org do better than Facebook, Google+, and Meetup.com?
Re: The Return of Upcoming.org by Andy Baio
#4What does Upcoming.org do better than Facebook, Google+, and Meetup.com?
The page says : ...An open API, an embrace of open standards, and a belief that your data belongs to you...
Re: The Return of Upcoming.org by Andy Baio
#5Andy is too humble to mention it, but he is an alumni of Kickstarter, joining them in 2008 and was at one point the CTO. http://waxy.org/2008/09/kickstarter/
Indeed, but he does mention it briefly in the beginning of the video!
Re: The Return of Upcoming.org by Andy Baio
#6I was upcoming.org user 500 or so and set up the Hong Kong info in it then. It was heartbreaking to see it atrophy and die. Another in the long list of acquisitions that demonstrate the ability of Yahoo's corporate mediocrity to smother good ideas.
If you are uncertain about resuscitating Upcoming, here's a timely anecdote: I ran an annual scrub on my RSS feeds yesterday. Per category dead-feeds are usually around 1-2% (even including hot areas like tech).
This year my local feeds category, which long ago replaced upcoming.org for me, was over 30% dead feeds (from just one year ago). Newspapers, local focus blogs, etc. The category need is still there but through recent attrition of local content sites, failure to deliver from local-content aggregation services, bad content acquisitions (MSNBC/Everyblock's buying spree followed by its failure), the local content category is ready for new entrants.
I wish Andy the best in this and will be backing.
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#8What does Upcoming.org do better than Facebook, Google+, and Meetup.com?
As someone who pays Meetup.com $144 a year for my group, I'd love to have a cheaper alternative.
Re: The Return of Upcoming.org by Andy Baio
#9What does Upcoming.org do better than Facebook, Google+, and Meetup.com?
For starters, it's not Facebook or Google+.
Many people are looking for ways to be less dependent on FB and Google+. If the Upcoming folk shape this the right way, both in product design and pitch, they will capture people who are tired of creepily pervasive social networks but still want to set up events easily.
Re: The Return of Upcoming.org by Andy Baio
#10Why do they need the funding? I find it dishonest and immoral.