Ginormous Update
We've got boatloads of improvements to announce, including some big backend updates: performance tuning, better searches, venue and event deduping, and yes, time zones!Although hopefully it hasn't been too noticeable, we've recently been having some growing pains. We've been doing a lot of tuning under the hood which should speed things up noticeably (check out the tag browsing, zowie fast!).
We've also retrofitted our site search and REST API w/ Yahoo Search Technology™, now with booleans! (We'll add documentation soon, also there's a bit of UTF-8 funkiness, which we're working on next.)
Our friends at 30 Boxes noticed we didn't have a 30 Boxes export option on event pages - noted, and corrected!
A huge thanks goes out to the Yahoo! Surfers Adam, Grace, and Suzi, who have been carefully going through some of our duplicate data and correcting and merging venues and events.
Oh yeah, and we added time zone support. New reminders should now be sent at the right time. It should all just work, but we'll be adding an interface for you to report errors soon. For now, just drop us a line here or on our wiki if you see something funky.
We're a long ways from Gamma, but we're getting there.
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lhl at May 17, 2006
lhl at May 17, 2006
If you ever need extra moderators; I'm up for that.
Plus; I love the iCal integration. Its good to see some mac support in there and it means I can sync Upcoming, iCal, my Sony Ericsson AND my iPod to be exactly the same.
additional requests: ability to add a venue when editing an event; events I update not showing up in my recent updates sidebar; events added by someone else to several groups I'm a part of not repeating for each group in the updates sidebar. Event photos! (maybe with flickr tie-in?) I also don't see any obvious way to track events I've created if I'm not attending or watching 'em. And group moderation has a long way to go, in terms of controlling events.. there's no way I've found to undo adding an event to a group! Also, some method other than pop-up menus for entry would be handy, especially for SF Bay Area venues starting with a "Z" and entering lots of start/end times (maybe it works in Windows/Explorer, but at least in Safari on a Mac there's no way to type-select on pop-up menus; pop-up fields do allow that).
Thanks for the feedback. The add venue when event editing is something we don't have, but that I'll definitely add to the list while we're overhauling the add event flow.
For event tracking, usually watching is what people should use for tracking events their interested in but not necessarily going to. You *could* create your own group and send those events to the group if you need a separate list... or bookmark them in del.icio.us? :)
It made it much easier to plan ahead.
The Michigan Theater isn't in Detroit and really shouldn't come up as being in Detroit. I'm not sure if this is a bug or this is how the 'umbrella metros' are being implemented, but if it's the latter, I do hope you'll rethink it. It's confusing and as downtown Detroit is an hour from Ann Arbor, I don't think it's accurate, either.
http://www.boubo.com/
Chinese Upcoming imitator.
* Private messaging between members.
* "Share with MSN buddy", "Outlook contact" javascript links on each event page.
* "Attach photos" utility on each event page.
* Weather report in the sidebar.
* "Recently viewed events" in the sidebar.
* A tag-cloud-style venue list with hot venues in bold.
* Majority of users from Beijing and Shanghai.
* "Weblog", "homepage", and "personal photo album" links in user profiles.
* Lots of music, but also lots of sales at major department stores.
* Uses Baidu and Sina for maps instead of Yahoo.
* No RSS.
No idea on who's behind it.
6/19
Frankie's Rock band @ Tiki Bar, Phoenix AZ
6/20
Frankie's Rock band @ Lava Lounge, Tuscon AZ
This would be awesome, and kind of essential, for listing tour dates.
Hello guys!! Does anyone of you guys have any info of "Smooth"? it's a french band who has a gig (accordin to the oficial programmation of the Festival de Jazz de Montreal) in Scène Bell 2006-06-29 at 10:00 pm... i don't have a clue of where is that. If anyone have any pix or video or whatever, pls send me an email...
Oh!! And do you know of any web site or radio internet that is transmiting in live this event?? Thanks for the info!!!
the new layout for the metro pages is not an improvement. in contrary. i am lacking an overview on this page with normally a long list of events which you just want to screen very quickly.
the additional information might be useful at times, but it's way to "verbose". not screenable at all.
also the usefull sidebar isn't shown anymore. a bug?
next. when adding an event to a metro, why do i have to select a venue from a list of the whole world? many venues have same name. not so good.
hope something happpens here.
matsch
html output for entries also isn't consistent on the site and in the rss. it layouts differently.
m.
raines: there are a few Safari issues that we're in the process of ironing out. There are some very bizarre DOM bugs there, look for some fixes in the next day or two (sorry for the inconvenience Safari users)
matsch: thanks for the feedback. the new metro listing is a work in progress and we'll be tweaking it more (filtering/sorting, etc.). A more "scannable" version might be something we can make available, but in hopefully you can give the new version a try and see if it grows on you. We've been using it internally and found that it really helped with making the events we might be interested in pop out (since it now gives precendence to the events your friends are going to and then popularity grouped by day).
The sidebar is gone for now, but hopefully soon to be replaced with something more context-sensitive and equally useful.
The venues should auto-filter as you type. We didn't want to force someone to have to enter a metro. We're tweaking this as well (better location searching/sorting behavior, possibly additional fields...) Is there anythign right now that you're running into problems with (concrete examples would be useful).
We'll look into the HTML filtering/rendering issues as well.
Thanks for the feedback everyone.