Eventful

Eventful is a web service which aims to help users to search for and share information about events. Eventful is a service of Eventful, Inc. (formerly EVDB, Inc.) of San Diego, California. EVDB stands for "Events and Venues Database", and anyone may add information about events and venues.

Functionality

Eventful users can search for events worldwide by time, location, and descriptive keyword. Users can create private or public calendars, including "smart" calendars which automatically update when events matching search criteria are added or existing events are modified.

A newer part of the service, Eventful Demand, allows users to declare an event or performance they would like to see locally, and then campaign for others to join their "demand". With enough declared interest, a targeted performer might then decide to plan an actual event. (A performers database was added to Eventful when Eventful Demand was launched, and "performer" is broadly defined to include any person or group of interest to others.)

A web services API is provided to use EVDB info in other programs and websites, such as mashups.

History

EVDB, Inc. was founded in January 2004 in La Jolla, California, by Brian Dear, a veteran of the late-90s Mp3.com and early consumer-Linux startup Eazel. A public beta test under the name EVDB.com was launched in March 2005, and the service changed its name to Eventful.com in September 2005. The company was renamed Eventful, Inc. in August 2006.

Eventful investors include Esther Dyson, Evan Williams, Mark Pincus, Josh Kopelman, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Omidyar Network.

Similar services include Zvents, Upcoming.org (recently acquired by Yahoo), EventHop.com, Australia-based Spraci, UK-based EventSetter, and Lovento.

External links

• Eventful website
• EVDB API website
• Silicon Beat: organizing the world's events EVDB launch coverage in a blog from the San Jose Mercury News