June 05, 2006
Mashpit 3: This Time It's Personal
...and this time I'll be there with Chris Bennett, Eventful intern extraodinaire.
Full event details are in the usual place.
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April 27, 2006
Tales from the Mash Pit II
I was more prepared for this Mash Pit than the last one. Even with that, it has still taken me nearly two weeks to blog about it. I did get a Flickr set uploaded pretty quickly, but I digress. The 25-cent summary:
Two projects that stood out in my mind were Mapendar, which I helped work on, and Lovendar. As you can probably guess from their names, they're both mutations of the standard calendar concept in order to better use online event resources. (Details for each project, plus all other Mash Pit projects past and future, are available on the Mash Pit wiki.)
Mapendar is an attempt to radically redefine the calendar interface. It throws out the idea that the grid of little boxes is king, and replaces it with views into the location, flow, or content of your events. The map and photo views are novel enough, but my favorite aspect is the lifeline, a "piano roll" that shows events as they really are: stretching from past to future, zoomable from the minute-by-minute level to years at a time, related to other events on parallel lifelines. It all exists in mockups at the moment, but the concept is pretty compelling.
Lovendar serves to answer a different calendar question entirely: why should we care? People busy enough to require a calendar are probably too busy to keep it up-to-date, and people who have enough free time to take care of a calendar probably aren't doing enough to warrant it, right? Lovendar makes both those groups happy by suggesting ways to make time for the ones we love most... even ourselves.
Both projects have great promise, and I look forward to working on them at future Mash Pits. Maybe we can put one together in San Diego so I don't have to travel so far.
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March 29, 2006
Mash Pit 2: Electric Boogaloo
OK, so it's actually Mash Pit San Francisco II. But whatever it's called, I'm going to be there on Saturday, April 15th. If you're in the Bay Area, consider joining me for a day of mashup geekery with a focus on events.Posted by chris at 10:07 AM | Comments (0)
January 16, 2006
Mash Pit tomorrow
Turns out EVDB will in fact be attending Mash Pit tomorrow, or at least I will. We might even have a new Labs project to announce there. I'll post a report later this week.Posted by chris at 11:50 AM | Comments (0)
January 04, 2006
Labs on tour?
EVDB is hitting the road again, this time to bring the gospel of the API to the mashup masses. We'd love to see more cool mashups like EVMapper. Technically we're also API users, too, so we can offer some insights on that side of things as well.
Keep an eye on the nascent Mashup Camp site; it's being set up for late February, so we should see some details soon. I'm also hoping for an invite to Mash Pit on January 17th, but that's in Chris Messina's hands. Oh, and keep an eye on the EVDB Company Events calendar on Eventful.
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