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Archive for January 23, 2008
The death of upcoming.org
I’m not sure when it happened but it feels like upcoming.org has become almost completely irrelevant. When I started using it they had the perfect combination:
- easy to search upcoming local events
- high density of relevant events
Today, it increasingly feels like the pool of interesting local events (usually to me this means “shows at clubs I want to see”) is almost totally dry, search never finds anything, and there are a lot more “events that people don’t seem to care about” than events that do matter. For instance — there are a total of 14 people attending events in Seattle today. Sure there will be days when there isn’t much going on, but that’s really far too few for a major metropolitan area to keep the social aspect of the site compelling and (and this is totally unsubstantiated quantitatively) seems way lower than the usage levels I’d seen 6 months ago.
It makes me sad, but I guess now is a fine time to switch more seriously to google calendar for my scheduling!