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By: Funding in Europe Continues with Oxynade/Happenr « TheNextWeb.com

Funding in Europe Continues with Oxynade/Happenr « TheNextWeb.com — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:27:00 +0000

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By: gruvr

gruvr — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:57:44 +0000

Andrei, if you’re looking for KML, at least for music/theatre/comedy events, check out http://gruvr.com – it generates GeoRSS as well as KML ICBM geocoding, geotags, and several other microformat encodings to fully integrate events to the geoweb with a fully open API :

http://gruvr.com/developers/

We have also offered embeddable flash maps like umappr for myspace bands for a year now
http://gruvr.co...pwidgetinfo.htm

Anyway, one measure of how many events a site indexes is how many of its event pages are known by google, since that is how most people will ultimately find the site. Happenr is currently at about 30K pages:

http://www.goog...mp;aq=f&oq=

… as opposed to on average 400-600K pages indexed for larger sites like gruvr, eventful, etc.

Still, if these guys really have a good AI approach to geocoding that will disambiguate “Birmingham” (UK) from “Birmingham” (Alabama, US) when the source omits country code – kudos! Most heuristics fail miserably at that….

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Web 2.0 Sammelalbum - Web2Null - Twingr — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:39:37 +0000

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Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:05:51 +0000

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By: pedalpete

pedalpete — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:14:43 +0000

I think it is naive to view the costs as ONLY the number of events that have been indexed, and that is coming from a guy who built a live music site with one of the biggest indexes of events.

You have to consider the marketing costs of an actually functioning startup. The cost of indexing more events scales, as it is the cost/time of building your indexer and making it run efficiently which is the challenge.

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Web 2.0 Sammelalbum - Web2Null - Happenr — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:43:04 +0000

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By: bob

bob — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:28:52 +0000

Series A and B for Eventful amounted to $9.6 million. With that money they indexed 6 million events. So they’ve used $1.6 per event.

Oxynade took €100k to index 57967 events in its database, that’s €0.58 per event. In 1 year.

Oxynade must be doing something right…

By: Yasser

Yasser — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:27:08 +0000

Very slow site. I think going.com should go global!

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Josfc Beta — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:39:36 +0000

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By: wolfie

wolfie — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:44:31 +0000

I’m from Belgium … the budgets here are a joke …
of course , our target audience is a lot smaller when we do a site in our native tongue and also we are not such global thinkers here … we leave that up to the Dutch

By: JFL

JFL — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:42:12 +0000

I think the API and RSS approach is the only sensible one…. There’s indeed plenty of people keeping all kinds of lists, all imperfect, incomplete… Unless you invest a dreadful amount of energy into keeping them up to date.

If the public would only recognise this fine initiative as THE list, it solves the whole fragmentation issue. Obviously there’s not something like THE public, only more fragmented crowds. Yet that’s another discussion.

Kudo’s to Happenr. See what happens.

JFL

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By: johnny

johnny — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:19:18 +0000

agree wih jonathan, slow site and there is nothing that makes you want to explore it more.

By: Benjamin A. Wendelboe

Benjamin A. Wendelboe — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:33:01 +0000

Seems a bit clunky.. In Copenhagen I’d suggest kbh.dk for events and mitkbh.dk for info on restaurants, venues, shops and more..

By: David

David — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:32:19 +0000

LOL…

$31.2M for US based zvents.com
$19.6M for US based eventful.com
and…
€100k ($125k) for EU based oxynade.com

between US/EU this is a 1/160 to 1/250 ratio… either there is not money in EU or EU startups perform better with less money

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:28:49 +0000

A decent start. High points for the open API and RSS feeds. From the look of it though, your team could use a user experience resource. It’s always easy to tell when a site’s layout has been left to code junkies. I would also make sure my servers are ready for a horde of visitors next time I do PR on Techcrunch. God speed.

By: Andrei

Andrei — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:19:37 +0000

Pretty cool... I wish there was a way to export events in KML and add them to umapper map mashup.

By: teraOm

teraOm — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:00:44 +0000

I do not understand the scope of this blog. All right it is an integrated place to add/ see events. Was there not a blog already doing this??
Its hard to believe there was none..

By: Mos

Mos — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:36:03 +0000

I wonder about these names sometimes…