Incoming!

Invite Friends, Metroblogging, About You, hCard

Another batch of updates, and some exciting news from Metroblogging.

Invite Friends

Invite a friend to Upcoming! We've supported event and group invites for a long time (look for the little "invite" links in each group/event header), but no way to invite a friend to Upcoming generally. They'll get an e-mail, and you'll end up in each other's friends lists. Good stuff, long time coming.

Metroblogging

Metroblogging is the largest and fastest growing network of city-specific blogs on the Web, currently representing 45 cities around the world. We're thrilled to announce that they're now using Upcoming.org for their local Events calendars across the network. For example, click the "Events" link on the right sidebar of the Chicago metblog to see events in the area.

About You

On your profile, you can now write a short "About Me" self-description to tell the world about yourself. Here's mine.

hCard on Venues/Events

For you microformats geeks, we've added hCard information to all our events and venues.

Duplicates

You may have noticed that we've starting weeding out duplicate events and venues from Upcoming. After geocoding our venues, we found a whole mess of duplicates. This is an ongoing process, so bear with us.

Event Homepage

You can now set an official event homepage for events, making that part just a little simpler.