Structured Blogging Event Aggregation
Posted on March 7, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Blogging.
I spent quite a few hours last night working through many of the Event/Calendar sites on the web to see if any of them supported the automated collection of events from blogs which use the hCalendar format in structured blog posts. So far I have found tons of discussion but no actual implementation. Does anyone out there know of a site which does this (or know of one under development)?
The ones I checked were:
Upcoming: I see quite a few mentions of Upcoming in this context but nothing obvious on the site
Meetup: Nothing at all
Zvents: Ditto but looks like it might be a fit
OpenEvents: Pay only so couldn’t find out
Eventful: They mention it on the site as coming so fingers crossed.
Evite: Doesn’t look like a good fit.
WhizSpark: Pay only so couldn’t find out
30 Boxes: Might be a good match too but didn’t see anything about it.
[tags]hCalendar, Events, Structured Blogging, Upcoming, Meetup, Zvents, OpenEvents, Eventful, Evite, Whizspark, 30Boxes[/tags]
3 Replies to "Structured Blogging Event Aggregation"
Michael on April 8, 2006
the aggregator at spraci.com (nightlife/party/clubbing/gig listings site)
can read hcalendar events in feeds and include them in the listings. (it also reads some other formats - rss+event, iCal, etc)
listings are free
public events only though!
conor on April 9, 2006
Thanks for the tip, I’m going to try it out.
Peter Caputa on March 8, 2006
We (WhizSpark) have not implemented anything like this. Our goal is to leverage social networks to drive attendance to events worth talking about.
However, if someone wanted to develop it, we’d be glad to support that when we launch our event search capabilities.
You can’t register to enter events as of now, unless you go through me. You can register at event sites and see how they work. (I’d leave a link but it doesn’t look like you accept html. So, click my blog link and you’ll see some links to event sites. Or search for “worcester music awards” at google.) Eventually, people that want to create event websites, will be able to reister without talking to us first.