Its happening on October 17th in Leicester Square. You can find lots more information on the official site (needs text) or the weirdly titled upcoming event.
Opera Backstage London
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Opera backstage London
Its happening on October 17th in Leicester Square. You can find lots more information on the official site (needs text) or the weirdly titled upcoming event.
Trusted places launches to the public
The venture which I should have got much more involved in has launched to the public.
Trustedplaces.com is open for business!
Yes, our dear friends we are now one letter up; have moved from alpha to beta and have opened up the site so that anyone can join. What a difference a letter makes. You’ll see a new home page, some very useful options for your reviews, favourites and friend’s favourites, quite a few design tweaks, but you’ll also be able to search for places that are near you.
Trusted places is simply a place to put all your favorate places and then tag them for other friends to find. You can write reviews and post pictures too but the most interesting thing is the friends aspect. Yes I'm thinking really long tail stuff here. The trustedplaces team haven't quite made a point of drumming that up yet but its in the pipeline I'm sure. There's also some really other things which are planned which make sense when your not at a computer.
We Media Fringe event this Wednesday
Robin and a few other people have been working hard on the unofficial or better known as Fringe event for We Media this Wednesday (2006/05/03). Unfortually its a guest ticket only event and the tickets are only being given out to friends of friends, who will turn up and will find the event very useful. i have a couple more tickets which can be given out if you let me know really soon.
Currently the confirmed guests are…
- Suw Charman, Executive Director, Open Rights Group
- Paul Evans who blogs at nevertrustahippy.blogspot.com
- Michael Tippett,founder of nowpublic.com
- Neha Viswanathan (withinandwithout.com and globalvoicesonline.org)
- Tim Ireland, online marketing expert and activist who blogs at bloggerheads.com
- Dr Chris Yapp, Head of Public Sector Innovation, Microsoft
- Ben Metcalfe (benmetcalfe.com / backstage.bbc.co.uk)
- A political blogger who goes by the name of “Quido Fawkes” (order-order.com)
The location of the event is still top secret, but not that hard to figure out (Soho will pretty much tell you everything you need to know). Anyway for more details check out Robins blog. Hopefully I will see you there….
Eventful events turned into signs with xsl
Its so funny, I tend to shy away from printed media. But I can see the value in some printed content. So anyway this is the result of my XSL which simply takes an Eventful ATOM feed and transforms it into simple XHTML+CSS for printing (next stage would be PDF). Here it is if you would like to do the same before Monday. Please bear in mind this works with ANY eventful event, as long as you take the id of the event and add it to the end of this url – http://cubicgarden.com/cocoon/eventful/poster/{eventful id}. Here's a couple more for the hell of it.
Calendaring interoperation with eventful?
On the eve (maybe) or at least before Google Calendar didnt happen is put out into the public internet, the eventful seems to be scrambling for some more marketspace. In a unannounced blog move the people behind EVDB have a option to submit the event to other sites. I've not checked out what all the end result are like but if the del.icio.us/events entry is a example, its not bad. Yes it links back to the Eventful calendar but the tags and description are still pretty much there. I've already suggested a blog this option, which would save me copying and pasting. Export as hCalendar (microformat) would be useful too.
I meant to blog Eventful's new group feature which allows you to group togther peoples events via tags and searches. But honestly there blog entry says it all and all I can add, is that its great. I really need to check back on upcoming.org, see if they have improved things there.
The eventful blog has just updated and wrote a more detailed account about this new feature. And thanks Sheila for letting me know Google Calendar never quite happened as rumored. Which is a real shame, I was looking forward to seeing what Google would do differently from the others.
Jon Stewart live in London
Found via Tom Coates del.icio.us feed and I'm very thankful. Sarah does not yet know about this but I've already booked the tickets. I would get in there quickly if you also want to book a place, its about a week away now. Should be a good night…