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July 24, 2006
NPUC 2006
I'm at NPUC at the moment showing off a poster session about Eventful Demand (warning: 2MB PDF). Thanks to the power of the internets, you! are! there! (If by chance you really are there, feel free to download the poster for later perusal.)
Update: The conference was informative, if a bit surreal. All five speakers gave great presentations; so far Ross Mayfield's and Sam Ruby's have been posted online. My favorite was a demonstration of Chickenfoot, a browser automation tool (and keyword-based language) which could easily be turned into a ScrAPI generator for the everyman. Or something.
The surreal moments were due in part to the weather; the posters were set up next to a wall of windows, so that part of the room was uncomfortably hot. Mostly, though, I felt like the only Web 2.0 upstart in a room full of superintelligent computer luminaries. (Imagine perusing a poster on HCI and discovering you're standing next to Don Norman.) Still, it was an eye-opening experience and I'm glad we were invited. Thanks, Max!
Posted by chris at 01:30 PM | Comments (0)
July 20, 2006
Podbop version 2
Podbop version 2 was announced yesterday over at the Podbop blog. In addition to the beautiful new design, new features include being able to search within a radius of your city, a browsable performer database, and the ability to add performers' events directly from Podbop. And if you'd like to request any missing features, go ahead on the Podbop subreddit.
Congratulations to Taylor, Daniel, and the rest of the Podbop crew for a great new release!
Posted by ted at 01:32 PM | Comments (0)
Mashup Camp report, part 1
(Oh no, this means I've sunk to writing multi-part posts. Anything to get this out the door...)
Suffice it to say, Mashup Camp was most excellent. Bryan and I met some seriously impressive people there, the true leaders in the field. (In some cases, those leaders are 16 years old. More on that later.) It was also good to get updates from some familiar faces. The hallway conversations were fantastic, with interesting people to talk to from the start of breakfast to the end of dinner. (We had to sleep sometime.)
I presented a quick demo of PhoTiger, a mashup from Mashpit, and it got a great response from the folks who saw it during speedgeeking sessions. (Kinda like speed dating, but 4-on-1 and with a laptop. Or something.) Despite having some stiff competition, little PhoTiger got enough wooden nickels (votes) to win one of the third-place prizes. It wasn't the MacBook, but it was still a Major Award!
More to come. In the interim, photos of the event are available on Flickr.
Posted by chris at 10:39 AM | Comments (0)
July 11, 2006
Mashup Camp 2 Tomorrow
Bryan Monroe and I will be at Mashup Camp 2 on Wednesday and Thursday, so be sure to seek us out if you're attending. If you're not attending but you're in the Bay Area, check out the pre-party (courtesy of Dave Nielsen and StrikeIron) the night before. It's open to anyone.Posted by chris at 10:26 AM | Comments (0)
July 03, 2006
New: Python API client library
We've just released a Python client library for our API. Here's how to use it:
import evdb api = evdb.API('your API key here') # If you need to log in: # api.login('username', 'password') events = api.call('/events/search', q='music', l='San Diego') for event in events['events']['event']: print "%s at %s" % (event['title'], event['venue_name'])
evdb.py requires simplejson and httplib2. If you have them installed, a simple python setup.py install should do the trick.
Share and Enjoy!
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