Upcoming.org Gets a Yahoo Makeover
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Written By Kate Zimmermann | April 20, 2007 | Share This
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Upcoming, the social events site, relaunched today with a new domain ending and new homepage. Acquired by Yahoo in October 2005, Upcoming finally dropped their .org ending for a .yahoo.com. They’ve also added Yahoo IDs, redesigned their homepage, incorporated Flickr photos, and added personal event pages. From the Yahoo Search Blog,
“- Our redesigned home page highlights popular local events and surfaces the community’s picks for the best happenings in your backyard each day. It also shows your friends’ events and recommends conferences, meetings, parties, and such, just for you.
- The homepage, event pages and venue pages feature event photos from Flickr — so you can see what happened and who showed up, or share your own photos for the world to see.
- You demanded better support for locations around the world, so we’ve delivered that. It’s powered by the same geographical database used by Flickr and Yahoo! Search Marketing. It supports local neighborhoods, too.
- We’ve added more events from our growing community of musicians, artists, freaks, and geeks, combined with the depth of Yahoo! Local’s events coverage.”
They’re also giving away free t-shirts to old users.
Further Reading
- Upcoming.org Absorbed by Faceless Corporation, Free T-Shirts for All (Mashable)
- Yahoo Placates Upcoming.org Users with Free T-Shirts (Compiler - Wired Blogs)
- Upcoming.org Now Upcoming with Yahoo Local (WebProNews)
Topics: Social Media, Yahoo! |