We’ve just launched our service inside Facebook. It’s called Events Plus and incorporates the elements we offer through Eventbrite with the familiarity and infrastructure of Facebook Events.

Check it out here: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?api_key=091fc382440059e3f30759e7da581e54&pwstdfy=0f07b78ee8bd7fa9ed5000de45f4a772

Cheers,

Julia
Co-Founder of Eventbrite

((microformats))

Even after tormenting Tantek at a party in a pub last year after a few cocktails about what did microformats really mean when regular people don’t even use them…Bless T, because he kept a straight face and answered me. I won’t torment you all, as I am not sure it is the answer.

Since my Chronic Social Networking Fatigue (CSNF) set in last May of 2006, my Naturapath Doctor has me on an elimination diet, so I just use email to send out my invites these days. Old Fashioned, so 1996, but it works. Most folks reply back to me via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Pownce, and hCard, but due to my new diet, I didn’t get the replies. Except from the friend who emailed me back…

;op

so as much as i want to get the word out about the bands, i really don’t want to extend into dealing with any more services. it is truly painful to manage the number i manage now.

so here’s an idea: create a BtoB service that acts as the middle-man (bridge) for event, photo & video services. do all the dirty work of negotiating the opening of APIs, have each similar service have equal access to each other’s APIs, and come up with a business model that rewards the participating companies in some incremental fashion.

or maybe the influx of traffic would do the trick by itself? it works for pron*, right?

then we could just pick our favorite service for it’s friggin color palette and be done with it.

* your spam filter is goofy.

If you think that SF is bad, Seattle is really, really fragmented. I have to use all of the above + Meetup and WetPaint. I love Upcoming, but people up here inexplicably use Meetup as well. Thank god we all agree on Flickr.

I wanted to stick with email for a brunch I’m doing post Gnomedex, but realized that 1/3 of the folks I don’t actually have “real email” addresses for, so I’m Facebook bound.

This shit is killing me. Can you and Oberkirch sit down and figure this out?

P.S. Please bring some engineers.

Cheers,
Randy

Oh and by the way you left off the private emails, IMs and the Google Group for organizing. We haven’t really solved our social software problems, even if the tentacles of our networks sometimes intertwine a little bit easier than they used to.

Someone is going to say the word “microformats” in about 5 seconds aren’t they?