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 Upcoming.org Offers Agnostic Yahoo! Public Calendaring
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Upcoming is a free community for discovering and sharing events”
- Aggregates events and invitations free for the community
- All users are encouraged to add events
- Can make friends and share events (SNS lite)
- Uses tags and tagging to describe content
- Location-aware based on Yahoo! user ID
- First-time login showed only Metro Washington events from Washington, DC, Baltimore, Maryland, and N. Virginia
- Relevant events makes experience less overwhelming

Upcoming offers a multitude of subscriptions
- Add to iCal Calendar
- Add to Outlook Calendar
- Add to Yahoo! Calendar
- Add to Google Calendar
- Add to 30 Boxes (online calendar service)

“My Upcoming Events” and “My Friends‘ Events”
- RSS feeds offer alternate ways to follow events

Upcoming.org is a Yahoo! Company
- No honeypot, just an open forum for event sharing

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