10 month ago
Andy Baio : Announcement: I'm leaving Upcoming to work on Waxy.org full-time! - a friend said I should cross-post this to Waxy Links since they didn't see the main blog post
Jeremy Zawodny : Outgoing - Outgoing: Andy is leaving Yahoo... best of luck!
nelson : Waxy is leaving Yahoo - Good luck, Andy!
deusx : Waxy.org: Daily Log: Outgoing - "Next year, I'm focusing exclusively on Waxy.org and related coding projects. What does that mean? Yes, more links, but also the same flavor of original research and investigative journalism I've done in the past, though on a daily basis instead of t
Greg Storey : Waxy is the new Kottke. - I think you have to travel to Vietnam now, or something.
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17 month ago
deusx : Upcoming.org Absorbed By Faceless Corporation, Free T-Shirts for All - "This is Gordon from Upcoming. As far as I can tell, we are most definitely personally stuffing shirts into envelopes, here in Santa Clara. Flickr’s staff has done the same for their swag giveaways as well."
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deusx : Home - Upcoming - Notice something different about the design and the URL? :)
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17 month ago
Andy Baio : Upcoming drops the ".org" with new redesign - biggest changes ever; full geo database, visual redesign, switch to Yahoo IDs, and more
jimray : The New Upcoming - Yahoo integration, better places management, purtier. Nice work, Waxy!
Simon Willison : The New Upcoming - The New Upcoming. No more metros! Upcoming is now hooked in to Yahoo!’s WhereOnEarth data, meaning plenty of geocoded brilliance.
nelson : Upcoming changes - Andy's baby gets integrated into yahoo. Congratulations!
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17 month ago
deusx : Adactio: Journal - Machine Tags of Loving Grace - "I’ve started to implement this machine tag format here. If you look at my last post—which has a whole list of books—you’ll see that I’ve tagged the post with a bunch of machine tags in the book:isbn format."
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18 month ago
philgyford : Disambiguity - » Ambient Intimacy - Excellent stuff on following friends in Twitter, Flickr, etc. I must try and remember some of this for all those times I try and explain my online life to non-geek friends who look at me like I'm some weird stalking nerd. (via Yoz)
Rod Begbie : Ambient Intimacy - A good explanation of what's so lovely about Twitter, in a way I can explain to folks without sounding crazy. [via] #
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20 month ago
Linkorama : Wikithon at SocialText HQ - Upcoming.org listing
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20 month ago
WillPate : How to Subscribe to Your Upcoming Events in Google Calendar
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23 month ago
joshua : A Look at 19 Social Activities Services
cameron : A Look at 19 Social Activities Services - A comprehensive look at the social events space
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24 month ago
Andy Baio : Upcoming.org is hiring - come work with us
kellan : Upcoming.org is hiring. - I'd apply for this job if I didn't already have a job one row over. #
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24 month ago
kellan : Who scheduled Scissor Sisters and Hack Day against each other? - Note to self: build global event conflict resolution system. Alternate solution: go to the free event. #
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25 month ago
Andy Baio : Upcoming.org adds Flickr and Yahoo! Local integration - increasing the number of events by 3000% overnight, plus pretty pictures and nicer event pages
kellan : Upcoming.org: News: Undiscovered Events, Flickr Integration, and More - And an awesome new release from Upcoming #
jimray : Upcoming adds undiscovered events, Flickr integration - I kinda dig the two tiers of Yahoo these days, one for the nerd/hacker set, one for everyone else
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28 month ago
kellan : random($foo): Unicode/UTF-8 Notes: I18N Gotchas - Leonard's note on converting Upcoming, a LAMP melange of PHP, Perl, and Python to native UTF-8. #
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31 month ago
plasticbag : Are we held hostage by Yahoo's acquisitions? - It's always worth remembering that most acquisitions come at the point where sites are growing pretty rapidly and that scaling is a difficult and time consuming business...
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34 month ago
Andy Baio : Meet with Approval - lo-fi meeting scheduler
joshua : MeetWithApproval - nice app for converging on a meeting
plasticbag : MeetWithApproval.com - "Arrange a meeting or event. Work out which day is good for everyone & keep track of who is coming." - This is a lovely piece of kit - pretty easy to assemble, but really elegant. This would be a charming component of a larger social calendaring enterprise.
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36 month ago
Linkorama : Yahoo Inc. Acquires Upcoming.org - Congrats
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36 month ago
plasticbag : Yahoo! have only gone and bought upcoming.org - Now that's pretty interesting. I wonder what they'll do with that. Seems like everyone's going to work with Yahoo! nowadays.
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