Archive for the 'Tech - Events' Category

A look at send event data over a variety of XML pipes and subscription formats is available here.

RSS into JSP

11Nov03

I don’t know JSP, but if eventsATstanford ever goes that route (currently it is published as static HTML pages), this guy has found a way to incorporate RSS feeds into a JSP site.
RSS into JSP

My favorite blogger weighs in on a new events page
The Gothamist/upcoming.org relationship is an excellent example of a cooperative web service, in which information is not simply pushed from a provider to a user but flows both ways…and even flows to people not directly involved (i.e. everybody wins).

Another Silo

19Oct03

Check out what’s going on in Munzer Auditorium (lots of intense events) Manana! View month for munzer

The Alumni Association has produced their own pages for events, which for the most part are not on eventsATstanford. This raises a question: is eventsATstanford for the residential Stanford community, or the global Stanford family?
Currently it may be wise to keep all the events local, to increase relevance and thus satisfaction for most of our […]

From an article by Matt Haughey comes a link to a Movable Type plugin to add RSS feeds to a MT website. This could be useful to add a group’s calendar from eventsATstanford to their site on groupsATstanford…
In other news upcoming.org is still growing–can we automatically harvest their events? I’m thinking like Amazon does with […]

Besides featuring really cool stories about 15-year-olds impressing NASA, the BBC online is the first non-geek website I’ve seen that allows any Joe Schmoe to post a comment without registering, and puts the comments on the same page as the story.
That’s something we talked about as an essential function of eventsATstanford, but one that has […]

This is really a number of success stories rolled into one: First, I heard of an event at the Bookstore, posted on eventsATstanford and delivered through Kyle’s RSS generator.
Second, I spoke to Allison Hoff, the bookstore’s events coordinator. Between horror stories about her past failures to publicize events (2 people showed for a famous author […]

Upcoming.org is a new, apparently MT-based, collaborative events calendar including some things we have only talked about - user comments, links to mapquest (apparently most Stanford locations can be mapped as well - Kathryn Yu of Stanford Law School is up on it), and user status (i.e. “attending”, “watch”, etc.)
Designer/MetaFilter creator Matt Haughey reviews it

Email is Dead

01Sep03

This article argues that due to spam, people do not trust email newsletters anymore. RSS, however, being a “pull” mechanism (users only get what they request), enjoys more trust and a brighter future.
For events@stanford, this would seem to be very applicable. Our audience, however, would need an easy way to transition. Have any of you […]


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