Comments on: Coming up next...

Coming up next...

oissubke — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:00:56 -0800

Upcoming.org is a collaborative event calendar that looks like it's going to be interesting. (Reviewed here by some guy.)

By: arto

arto — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:10:10 -0800

aaah, wax pancakes. Is there anything they can't do? (Also, this looks like a seriously cool idea. Wonder how well it'll scale, though, should it catch on?)

By: oissubke

oissubke — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:15:42 -0800

The pancake made it -- it'll scale. ;-)

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:16:11 -0800

Yep, that's me. I made Upcoming.org, so if you don't like it, you know who to blame. (If you have criticisms or comments about the project, feel free to e-mail me directly rather than nitpick here.)

By: pxe2000

pxe2000 — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:52:09 -0800

i like this. it is foxy.

By: rhyax

rhyax — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:04:30 -0800

what about when people start filling it with garbage? do people think that will happen?

By: thebabelfish

thebabelfish — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:09:48 -0800

rhyax: waxpancake said he planned to address that by adding a self-moderation system so such crapfloods can be shot down.

By: carfilhiot

carfilhiot — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 08:33:38 -0800

the formatting of all the pages seems screwy in IE. the body of text on the left appears below the right-hand side bar, not to the left of it.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 08:56:01 -0800

IE is screwy. ;) Love the squidfingers background patterns.

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 09:17:05 -0800

carfilhiot: Are you running at a particularly low resolution? It should work fine in IE at 1024x768 and up.

By: zpousman

zpousman — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:30:38 -0800

Man, nice waxy! Me and another mefi member (bshort) have been toying with an idea like this for some time. Our idea had a similar XML/RSS backend, but also an informaiton visualization front end. We worked on an idea for a modified "starfield" (pic here) dynamic query display, actually. I'm so excited I'm taking this offline!

By: zpousman

zpousman — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:31:20 -0800

Me also have been studying grammar in my spare time.

By: dg

dg — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 21:09:43 -0800

This is a nice site and, once it reaches critical mass, should be great for organising get-togethers of all kinds. The interface is nice and clean, with minimal graphics. I like.

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:48:35 -0800

I guess the big challenge is trying to develop ways for the community to moderate and remove garbage events. Someone already added "Sex with Me" in "My Bedroom" as an event and venue.

By: bshort

bshort — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 08:31:31 -0800

zpousman speaks the truth. What I'd really like to see is a site like Upcoming that also allows import into PIMs via vCal or some sort of other standard. Actually, what I really want is Chandler, but with a wiki.