Upcoming+benchmark

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Description

Upcoming is an event calendar website [2]. The social events found with in the calendar is community produced [2]. Members of the sire can use free services to search events in their area in addition to posting their own event [3]. The site is used to keep calendars of events both public and private, finding out what events friends and family are attending or find events that interest them [3]. Members of the site are able to post their own personal calendar on there own site, spreading the usership outside of the main site. Recently acquired by Yahoo Inc. they have “pledged to build a social events platform that will integrate with its existing events offering and other areas [2] .” This promise is aimed at users who prefer to keep social services out of the hands of dominating corporations [2].

Upcoming event [3]



Upcoming calendar [4]



Insights

Upcoming, as a social calendar has many feature which can inform the structuring process in our group project. The main page of Upcoming has many different way to interact with events taking place in the community. They offer specific searches of events, or more generalized categories such as music, social, education, visual arts and festivals [5]. This is an interesting way to make sure the system we are developing would be multidisciplinary. By offering so many different ways to get informed about different events the content found on upcoming is much broader. Upcoming also features a news feed on the top events happening today, tomorrow and later on in the week [6]. Providing up to date information about events taking place keeps users connected with the latest information. in relation to our group project Upcoming serves as a best practice because of the way they keep users in touch with no only there own personal events but also connect them to the larger events taking place within their community. Categories such as events, places, friends, groups and popular allow for easy access to a number of different social circle which connect people through geography, interest, and educational events.

References

[1] [|Upcoming Logo.] Upcoming. 27 Oct. 2007 . [2] __"[|Yahoo Scoops Up Social Calendar Site.]"__ EWeek.Com. 27 Oct. 2007 . [3] __[|Upcoming Event].__ Gyzlariviere.Nl. 27 Oct. 2007 . [4] [|Upcoming Calendar.] Uk.Techcrunch.Com. 27 Oct. 2007 . [5] [|"Home - Upcoming."] Upcoming. 27 Oct. 2007 . [6] __"[|Upcoming.Org.]"__ Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. 27 Oct. 2007 .