Archive for September, 2005

Mobile Mashups Wanted

Hey, mobile developers! We have extensive APIs and tons of Bay Area content with geolocation data in GPS-compatible form. We’ve got “when” search. Want to write a mobile app with up-to-the minute local content? We might be able to help. Want to write a cool mobile interface to our site? Sure, we’d like that, too.

-Tyler


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Web Mashups Wanted

If you will pardon our brief immodesty, we think we have the best local events search and web service on the planet right now. We sure aren’t going to rest on our laurels – we’re going to work real hard to make sure that statement stays true for a long, long time. If you love our functionality, our APIs, and the fact that we’re full right up to the brim with searchable, linkable, RSS-able fresh event data, then mash us up!

-Tyler


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Standing on the shoulders of open source giants

One of the important driving factors behind this whole “Web 2.0” thing is the ready availability of superb, production-class software and support for free. We remember the last dot-com wave – where every new startup was required to do the ritual self-flagellation of “Oracle and Sun, we know we need to scale” in order to get VC funding. Well, we don’t have Oracle, and we don’t have Sun (though those new Sun Opteron boxes are looking pretty good) but what we do have is enormous, unending gratitude for the folks behind the open source projects who made Zvents possible:

  • Linux (Red Hat and CentOS)
  • Ruby on Rails
  • lighttpd and Apache
  • Lucene and Nutch
  • MySQL
  • script.aculo.us
  • Openrico
  • Subversion
  • Trac
  • Typo

Yes, you guys really are changing the world. We love this new world, and are excited to be a part of it. We’ve only had a chance to contribute a few small patches during our mad rush to launch, but now that our baby is out the door we hope to spend more time giving back to the community. If you have any questions about how Zvents works, just ask!

Many, many thanks.

—The Zvents Team
Tyler, Tom, Ethan, Matt, Paul, Tim, Chris, and Allie


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Delta? What the……?

Are you tired of everything Beta? Yeah, so are we. So tired that we decided to be different. Delta is the 4th letter in the Greek alphabet, and engineers use it to symbolize change. (You knew that, but we like to say it.) We’re at least the fourth events site to launch, and we plan to change everything in this market. So, Delta? Yeah. Why not?

-Tyler


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