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1,000,000 Future EventsSeptember 3 2007

Sometime this past Sunday morning, our database welcomed its millionth event.

What can we say? It's a nice milestone for us. It's a big round number that looks good in a headline. It's an excuse to pat each other on the back. But it's not even close to where we want to be.

If anything, it's an excuse for a blog post. I think this is a good moment to point out what we hope this million future events means for our users.

We think it's great that superstar comedian Jim Gaffigan uses Eventful Demand to interact with his fans. We're stoked to have the details about his upcoming 30 city tour.

Personally, I'm glad that Eventful's million events includes the Stephen Malkmus show at the Casbah that I'm planning on going to next month. It's nice to have a single spot to find out about what's going on around San Diego.

But what really gives us the warm fuzzies is knowing that among our million events are things like Munden, Kansas's Republic County Spring Czech Festival and tomorrow's Philadelphia Com

Eventful on CNNSeptember 3 2007

Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room program on CNN featured a segment on Eventful.com today, regarding how the 2008 presidential candidates are beginning to use Eventful more and more.

"Thanks to a popular website," Wolf said in the intro to the segment, "people from Portland to Paris are demanding that Obama and other candidates come to their hometown."

More Eventful coverage on CNNSeptember 3 2007

Wolf Blitzer and Abbi Tatton of CNN's Situation Room program do another segment on Eventful:

Here's the video itself:

And here's a related story published on the CNN site as well.

Recent Media MentionsSeptember 3 2007

Some recent media mentions of Eventful:

• The other day, CNET let us know that we've been selected as a finalist in their WebWare 100 best-of-the-web awards for 2007. Click on the icon below to go vote for Eventful!
  

Cindy Rakowitz of the Voice America podcast interviews Eventful CEO Jordan Glazier. It's about 1 hour long. (Here is a link to the MP3 itself). Part of the interview includes a 3-way interview between Cindy, Jordan, and Eric Hawke, marketing director from indie record label Strange Music, who talks about how his company's been using Eventful Demand to gain more exposure for his artists, including Tech N9ne. Quote: "Eventful Demand has definitely become a very useful tool for us. We're using that to determine markets which Tech [N9ne] maybe hasn't been to, and what the demand is in those particular areas. We just did a contest on Eventful Demand and of course Seattle, being one of our biggest markets, ended up getting the show, and we've decided to go ahead and increase that to include other cities, along the routing there . . . . [Eventful Demand] exposed new markets where we didn't even know we had a demand

Spotted in the Wild! - SrchrSeptember 3 2007

Gentle reader, let me introduce you to this blog's "newest" category: Spotted in the Wild!

I say "newest" in quotes because we've been posting the Spotted in the Wild series over on our Labs blog for the past year or so. We've used it to highlight the work of creative programmers who are using Eventful's API* to make it easier to find out about the events you care about. We're moving the series over here to make sure that more people know about the cool sites we've found.

The latest site we've found using our mighty API is the mysterious Srchr. In addition to boasting a charming devil-may-care disregard of vowels, they claim to be the world's first-ever "Search Aggregator."

Srchr provides a simple customizable interface that allows you to search an unlimited number of sites simultaneously. At press time, they provide 26 default search sites, and Eventful is one of them! Entering a search term is like bombing yourself with content, be it video, ebay items, news, or event information. Go give it a shot!

*An API is like a toolbox that we give to programmers to help them write programs that tap into our database. More info on our (seriously awesome) API