Here's the press release on the new Events Plugin developed by Microsoft, that uses our Eventful API to help users search for events and publish them in their blog posts (more on this plugin in a later post here on the Eventful blog):
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 28 -- Eventful, Inc., which operates Eventful.com, the leading global events website, announced today the availability of the first events discovery and promotion plugin for Microsoft's Windows Live(TM) Writer. Microsoft developed the plugin using Eventful's developer tools (API). Part of the Windows Live(TM) set of personal Internet services and software, Windows Live Writer is a free, downloadable program for bloggers that enables WYSIWYG authoring of blog posts and supports all of the popular blog software applications and hosting services.
Available today on the Windows Live Writer website, the new plugin enables bloggers to search Eventful's comprehensive index of events worldwide and then easily embed one or more matching results into a new blog post without having to retype the information. The plugin provides this cut-and-paste capability by incorporating Microsoft's Live Clipboard data-sharing capabilities on more than one million Eventful.com event pages. As a result, bloggers are able to more easily spread the word about events they care about and want to share with their readers.
"We are pleased to work with Microsoft to introduce the plugin for Windows Live Writer and support for Live Clipboard," said Jordan Glazier, CEO of Eventful, Inc. "These initiatives are part of our ongoing efforts to develop innovative ways for people to discover, share, promote and create events and to help make their lives more eventful."
Currently, Eventful gives users the ability to discover what's happening near them from a selection of hundreds of thousands of worldwide events ranging from concerts and sports to cooking classes and kids' activities.
"Eventful's implementation of Live Clipboard is the most visible example yet of how we can take advantage of structured data formats to bring the desktop cut-and-paste metaphor that everyone knows and loves, to the web," said Jack Ozzie, general manager of Microsoft's CSA concept development team. "It's impressive to see how a blogger can easily create links between Windows Live Writer and events on Eventful.com, without any programming skills required. The Eventful plugin is a significant step forward in demonstrating how we can 'wire the web' by providing the same type of end-user friendly publish-and-subscribe capabilities that exist in desktop applications today."
Windows Live Writer is available at windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/. The new plugin can be downloaded from Windows Live Gallery at gallery.live.com/writer
About Eventful, Inc.
San Diego based Eventful, Inc., formerly EVDB, Inc., operates Eventful.com, the leading events website which enables its community of users to discover, promote, create and share events throughout the world. Eventful's unique Demand service enables users to create grass-roots campaigns to "demand" events and performances in their city. In addition to event discovery and promotion at Eventful.com, the company's underlying technology platform enables sharing, feeds and event data syndication to other websites, blogs, calendars and partners.
