By robertdouglass on

Now that Upcoming.org is owned by Yahoo! and is thus very likely to become a very busy center of event/calendar/venue activity, it is also time to take a closer look at the great Upcoming.org integration that was done this summer as part of the Google (ironic?) Summer of Code project.

Let me put this in different terms than before. With Google Maps, there is an API and everybody goes gaga because they can use the API to extract information from the Google server (in this case, about maps). With Upcoming.org, there is also an API, and you can use that API to extract info from the Upcoming.org server (in this case, information about venues and events). Now here's the big difference; YOUR site, with the upcoming.org module, also has an API, and people can query YOUR site just like they query Upcoming.org about YOUR events and YOUR venues etc. This is like RSS for events. You can also add events using the API. This is great for performing artists who want to keep lots of people updated about their schedules.

If you have this module in use, please speak up so we can all come and see it! I know that eventually, when enough people grok this, it is going to be mega hot.

Previously:
http://drupal.org/node/29784

Comments

travischristopher’s picture

travischristopher commented

i was planning on using this but hadn't noticed if it was out of CVS, and i was kind of waiting for the code freeze before jumping into the fray with new modules. i'm going to take a closer look at this tonight...

on another note, anyone know how much Yahoo paid for Upcoming.org?

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Hosting Geek commented

Google sponsored the development for a module that supports and site now owned by the biggest competitor... well at least google is not anti-competitive many times on there site they will referrer you to use one of Yahoo's service such as: somewhere in this section of their site they tell you to use yahoo if all else fails... http://www.google.com/addurl

And my fav. thing is that Google say Yahoo is number one and put them above them self: http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/yahoo.html

Anyway if your interested in all the places yahoo is said on google's site: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=yahoo+site%3Agoogle.com&btnG=Google...