Yahoo! Acquires Upcoming.org
Today marks the day that Yahoo! has officially acquired Upcoming.org. Here’s the official announcement, which covers the basics:
The acquisition of Upcoming.org builds upon Yahoo! Local’s mission to create the most precise, relevant and comprehensive local search experience available online. Events are a critical component of local content applications and through this acquisition, Yahoo! Local will look to further enhance its exiting events platform with community driven information.
As the first of its kind, Upcoming.org has established itself a leading event site that harnesses the power of user generated content and social media to capture localized event information and dramatically improve the relevance of local search results.
Tackling the tricky problems behind events is a worthy challenge. Many sites make an attempt to be a calendar on the Internet, but what both Upcoming and Y! have recognized is that it takes more than being a comprehensive data source to get relevant, interesting event information to yourself and your friends. Andy Baio, Leonard Lin, and myself have been making progress lately in doing interesting, cool stuff with events, and we’re happy to become valued members of the Y! Local team, trusted to turn our part-time ideas and blue sky into a tangible, fully-featured events offering.
The opportunity to join forces with Y! ultimately bespeaks all of our sincere interest in making a useful, interesting events substrate on which a flourishing, social community can naturally grow.
Alas, from a personal point of view, I’m simply exhausted! So I apologize in advance if this post got a little too full of jargon. Hey, it’s not every day when your two top secret announcements (Ning & Upcoming.org) in the works come to light within the same 24 hour period. For more details, check out http://upcoming.org tomorrow for the full story.
UPDATE: For now, if you’re craving more info, you can look into the Y! Search Blog, or look at Andy and Leonard’s announcements via the links above.
UPDATE: Here’s the official news post with a short Q&A on Upcoming.org.
October 5th, 2005 at 12:31 am
Upcoming.org Team Joins Yahoo!
Over on the Yahoo! Search blog, Paul says: In just a few years, most of it spent on nights and weekends, the Upcoming team has built an excellent site with a loyal and growing following. Now that theyve joined Yahoo!, together well build a social e…
October 5th, 2005 at 12:39 am
[...] Congratulations Gordon and Leonard (and Andy, who I don’t really know) [...]
October 5th, 2005 at 12:41 am
Yahoo and Upcoming, Sitting In A Tree
Two years ago, I launched Upcoming.org and announced it to the world. Today, along with my partners Gordon Luk and…
October 5th, 2005 at 12:57 am
Congrats Gorden! You shall do great things, I know it!
October 5th, 2005 at 3:05 am
Upcoming.org, Welcome to Yahoo!
October 5th, 2005 at 4:53 am
Yahoo weiter auf Einkaufstour
“Mit Upcoming.org übernimmt Yahoo einen weiteren Anbieter aus dem Bereich Social Software. Upcoming.org betreibt einen Event-Kalender, der unter anderem auch ‘Tags’ unterstützt.”, meldet Golem.de.
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October 5th, 2005 at 7:00 am
Yahoo Acquires Upcoming.org Social Event Calendar
Upcoming.org is now a member of the Yahoo! family. And some snippets from what those people behind Upcoming.org have to say -
October 5th, 2005 at 8:31 am
[...] The news is out: Upcoming.org is joining us at Yahoo! Well, um. . . yahoo! More from the Upcoming.org guys: Andy, Gordon, and Leonard. [...]
October 5th, 2005 at 9:11 am
Yahoo adquiere Upcoming.com
Así es, el gigante Yahoo! vuelve a comprar, esta vez se lleva en la cesta a Upcoming.org un calendario lleno de eventos sociales y casi de cualquier tipo.Vía Davilac. …
October 5th, 2005 at 10:37 am
Congratulations, Gordon! You’ve got your hands in a lot of very cool projects these days, and I’m sure Yahoo! will keep you busy.
Keep in touch!
October 5th, 2005 at 12:42 pm
Why Yahoo Acquired Upcoming.org
October 5th, 2005 at 1:40 pm
[...] Gordon of Upcomming [...]
October 6th, 2005 at 3:40 pm
[...] Congratulations, Andy, Gordon, and Leonard! [...]
October 11th, 2005 at 3:39 pm
[...] More from the founders: Andy Baio Gordon Luk Leonard Lin [...]
October 15th, 2005 at 12:18 pm
Yes!
Kudos to Paul, Andy, Gordon, Leonard and the rest who made this deal happen - Upcoming.org has been a great additional tool for us to help our clients reach localized online “event-goers” and groupings!
Much Respect,
David Flint Founder, http://TechVenue.com Since 1998, Your Venue for Business Technology Events, News and Networking
October 16th, 2005 at 1:53 pm
You guys feel like family, even to a former journalist, newbie blogger for my town, sausalitobythebay. I’ll continue to recommend you when I speak to audiences about the power of connecting in-person and online as you help happen. In a grab and go world, your work fosters ad give and take attitude and opportunity to craft mutually-benenfical relationships. I admire your grit and humility.
another fan Kare http://www.sayitbetter.com
October 21st, 2005 at 2:13 am
A giant do a giant step
I think this will make Yahoo more stronger on local search
February 26th, 2006 at 11:27 am
[...] The owners of upcoming.org, Andrew Baio, Gordon Luk and Leonard Lin, have all joined Yahoo! with this acquisition. As Leonard Lin noted: I have to admit that this seemed a bit unlikely to me when this possibility first came up, after all, we were just getting started. But after our initial talks, it was obvious that Yahoo! had the same passion we did, and most importantly, that they both got, and shared our vision. Moving forward, we now have the freedom, resources, and support to pursue the event space on a whole different level, working with some of the brightest and most motivated people in the world. I’m not sure you can beat that combination. [...]
April 19th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
I hope yahoo will be stronger in local search…
January 11th, 2007 at 4:35 am
[...] update: And dear god, where I can get some of whatever Gordon is on, Upcoming and Ning!?!? No kidding “bred for skill in magic.” [...]