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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.
Posted by waxpancake at April 12, 2006

Comments
raines wrote:
While cleaning up duplicate venues is great, it doesn't deal with overlapping metros and how best to show everything relevant at any given level without requiring duplicate events. I.e. I should be able to list an event in Berkeley and have it show up in SF Bay Area, because it's of interest to those in the larger regional metro, not just the niche-targeted one a few miles across.

Also, sometimes I get what appars to be a false flag warning of conflicting events, warning me of a conflict even though the event it is highlighting is on a totally different day than the event I'm posting. Ex: when I posted the cybersalon 4/23, it warned me of the seder today (4/13) at the Hillside Club.
Posted 2 years ago
coxy wrote:
RE: Raines' comments. I agree with what's been said.

Maybe a solution to that is start to allocate moderators to each area to sort out everything - duplications, overlapping of metros, obvious spelling mistakes, tidying up of dodgey HTML in posts? If this be the case, can I be allocated Manchester (England). :P

Oh, and all the work that's been put into the site is great, so dont think it goes without being appreciated. We just like to see improvements.
Posted 2 years ago
waxpancake wrote:
raines: Events/venues can belong to more than one metro now, and we've been merging the dupe venues that really do belong in more than one.

This is the first step in a much larger effort to handle overlapping metros much more naturally. Expect a big announcement from us about this soon.
Posted 2 years ago
raster wrote:
It's great to see Upcoming get new features and support Microformats. Keep up the good work.
Posted 2 years ago
ChristinaW wrote:
Does anyone know what happened at Li's concert last night at Royce Hall? The program showed it ending with Chopin, but he didn't play it!
Posted 2 years ago
mavit wrote:
It's not just duplicate events and venues, of course. There are also lots of duplicate or overlapping countries and a muddle of regions within. Is it really a good idea to allow people to add new countries at this stage?
Posted 2 years ago
waxpancake wrote:
mavit: No, it's a mess. We're overhauling the entire thing. This is all one big related effort.
Posted 2 years ago
msephton wrote:
Are these efforts only concentrating on USA events and metros?
Posted 2 years ago
waxpancake wrote:
No, the changes will be international.
Posted 2 years ago
nnjg wrote:
i can only see events in the next few days... how do i page forward thru all events?
Posted 2 years ago
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