April 07, 2006

Eventful integrates with Rabble.com

This is very cool. We've integrated our "Add to calendar" functionality with Rabble.com, run by Intercasting Corporation.

Rabble bills itself as "Where MoBlogging meets Social Networking" -- a service currently available to Verizon and Cingular mobile telephone customers. From Rabble's own description: "Rabble enables a new kind of self-expression that informs, entertains and connects people through the media they create. Create your channel and post location-based media - your favorite places, photos or an up-to-the-minute newsworthy event. It's like putting virtual sticky notes on the world around you. Then connect with your world. Tell Rabble where you are and it will show you who is around you and the media they have created. Through bits of location-tagged media, find and interact with other people and get information you won't find in the yellow pages. Part blogging, part location-based personal networking, Rabble connects you with the world in a unique and intuitive way by turning "users" into "producers" and creating a marketplace for mobile user-generated content."

Rabble now exposes Eventful events listings on the Rabble service. How'd they do it? With the EVDB API, naturally! And we're using their API to add events to your Rabble "channel". You'll need to register with Rabble to get an account, password, and set up a channel.

More Details about Eventful integration with Rabble
Where can you see this functionality? When you're searching or viewing events or calendars or group calendars. When you see a plus button: or a plus-minus button: . You'll see them on event detail pages, event search results, and various other places on the site. They're used to add an event (or remove an event) to one of your Eventful calendars or one of the Eventful groups you've joined.

But now, you'll also see an "Export to" feature added to the Add to / Remove From pop up panels -- which lets you export your selected event to other services. The first one we're making available is Rabble. So if you find something cool and want to add it to your Rabble account, you can now do that!

The general philosophy here is, we want to help you find interesting, relevant events -- events that you are important enough to you that you want to save them to whatever calendar tool you prefer to use. Be sure to tell us what other calendaring tools you'd like to see added to the "Export to" list!

Posted by brian at April 7, 2006 02:26 PM

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