SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 2005--EVDB, Inc. has launched a new website called "Eventful," at
www.eventful.com, offering many new features designed to help people discover, contribute, and share events going on all over the world.
Discover: The Eventful service lets people search and browse for events by keywords, geographical region, and by date and time. By being able to control the What, Where, and When criteria, users are able to find only those events they care about.
Contribute: In addition to searching and browsing features, the Eventful service lets people create as many public or private events and calendars as they wish, all at no charge. Each new event or calendar of events comes with a free RSS feed which users can subscribe to via a newsreader application, plus a free iCalendar file, which users can download to their favorite calendaring application such as Outlook or iCal.
Share: Users can create free calendars consisting of events they've found in the system or new events they've added, and then share those calendars with others, not only other users within Eventful community, but through their own websites or blogs as well. With Eventful's new "Sticker" feature, anyone can publish a calendar to their own site or blog without any programming involved. The Sticker feature is also available free.
"We've also added a great new social dimension to Eventful," said Brian Dear, founder and CEO of EVDB, Inc. "Now you can identify who among other users are contacts, friends, or family members, and share events, venues, and calendars among one, a few, or everyone."
Eventful also introduces powerful time-based search filtering. Instead of dealing with a possibly overwhelming amount of search results, users can narrow down a search by specifying that they only want to see those events happening today, tomorrow, this week or next, or this month or next.
All events, venues, and calendars benefit from "tagging," the ability for users to add a keyword, or "tag," to an item to help categorize it and make it more findable. Eventful also enables users to search by tag, even within a particular geographical region, to find only those events that match.
"Eventful is a terrific example of a new style of web service, the so-called Web 2.0 service, in which the users of the service are key participants," said Dear, "contributing events, comments, tags, and calendars. Indeed, the very act of participation by the public is what makes the site so vibrant. Our job is to build great tools to discover, share, and contribute event information, and then get out of the way and let everyone do their thing."
The entire Eventful site is free. By making event listings, even commercial listings, free of charge, Eventful becomes the ideal service for organizations to get the word out about their events, whether they're performances, lectures, store sales, sporting events, bookstore events, or anything else.
Eventful is powered by EVDB's underlying technology and applications programming interface (API). "The entire site is built on top of the same API we offer to third-party developers," said Dear. "It serves as but one example of what can be done with our technology." Other examples might include mobile applications, customized search portals, and business services. Developers interested in creating custom applications should visit api.evdb.com.
About EVDB, Inc.
EVDB, Inc., a venture-capital backed technology company, was founded in 2004 and is based in San Diego, CA. Its CEO is Brian Dear. It was recently recognized as an "Editor's Pick" by BusinessWeek in a survey of the "Best of the New Web." For more information, contact Brian Dear by email at press@evdb.com, phone (858) 964-0697, or visit www.Eventful.com.
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EVDB, Inc.
Brian Dear, 858-964-0697
press@evdb.com
www.Eventful.com
