Comments on: Building a party calendar with Last.fm, Yahoo Pipes and Google Calendar

By: eric casteleijn

eric casteleijn — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:07:14 +0000

And it’s not even a case of the right people, usually, just *enough*: with things like wikipedia, or social tagging a la del.icio.us, if the technology is robust enough (which usually means: so smart it’s dumb,) griefers or uninformed users sink to the bottom pretty quickly, and there is no pay off to gaming the system.

Makes you wonder why actual meatspace democracy is such a mess ;)

By: Wilbert

Wilbert — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:37:03 +0000

@eric thanks. Once again it proves that a wiki system is incredibly powerful when used the right way and with the right people.

By: eric casteleijn

eric casteleijn — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:43:39 +0000

Actually, it’s (usually) not the venues themselves that add events to last.fm, it’s the people attending them. Basically anyone can add any event, and since anyone can also make or at least suggest corrections, it’s crowdsourced to the fans themselves, and pretty robust, especially for the genres that have a web savvy audience. Emergence rules the web :)

By: Inge

Inge — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:07:34 +0000

I’m still impressed how simple and good this works. I’ve maintained an agenda manually, and that implied going to tons of websites, copying the data, and pasting it. Horrible.

This agenda works marvellous. The only limitation is that we are (to a certain extent) dependent of the willingness of venus to continue adding their events to Last.fm. Let’s hope that the site remains as important as it is (or that a website-independent database is created).

By: Wilbert

Wilbert — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:24:36 +0000

Just added two more venues. Below a screenshot of the current Pipe.

Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

By: De Eclectro uitgaansagenda | Eclectro

De Eclectro uitgaansagenda | Eclectro — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:42:23 +0000

[...] De uitgaansagenda van Eclectro werkt op basis een Google kalender die via een omweg zijn informatie haalt van 15 populaire Nederlandse podia op Last.fm. [...]

By: eric casteleijn

eric casteleijn — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:19:27 +0000

Cool!, I already love the fact that last.fm directly exposes an ical feed of events recommended to me, which has saved me from missing essential events more than once.

But it does generate some noise, so a human edited version is even better. I’m subscribed! I also might look at yahoo pipes to integrate all my different calendar feeds into my own personal party/concert calendar, thanks for that tip!

By: Wilbert

Wilbert — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:23:25 +0000

You can also subscribe to the iCal feed with all events (pop, rock, dance).