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The great news continues to flow. Just a few hours ago it was announced that Upcoming.org is now a member of the Yahoo family.
(I stole the “family” phrase from Upcoming.org’s own Andy Baio. I must admit, it’s great to hear people are as excited to join the work here as we are to already be doing it. There is great work going on here, and and it is a great place to work.)
For those that haven’t been playing with Upcoming yet, here’s their blurb:
Upcoming.org is a social event calendar, completely driven by people like you. Manage your events, share events with friends and family, and syndicate your calendar to your own site.
As a side note, I’ve been playing with Microformats for a few things at work. “Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.” Upcoming.com was an early adopter of these semantic markup structures, so I’m excited to have the experience around now. Of all the types, “events” are the perfect use case for this emerging technology.
Read more about Yahoo!/Upcoming on the ysearchblog, or any of the Upcoming.com guys’ blogs: Andy Baio, Leonard Lin or Gordon Luk.
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David October 5th, 2005 - 3:20 am
The ysearchblog link up there links to an edit page. You probably want to change that. =)
natek October 5th, 2005 - 7:03 am
Thanks for the tip, David.
Somewhat Frank October 5th, 2005 - 8:37 am
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