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Facebook Launches Suggested Events Feature Based On Checkins
We’re creatures of habit. We go where we’ve already gone. That’s why Facebook’s new Suggested Events feature I just discovered is so powerful — it knows where we’ve been thanks to our checkins....
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Announcing The 2011 Crunchies Finalists And Tickets On Sale Now
Update: Tickets are now sold out. Be sure to keep your eye out for ticket giveaways and for when we release our next batch of tickets. The nominations have been tabulated and the votes are in. Over...
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The Uphill Battle Of Social Event Sharing: A Post-Mortem for Plancast
Editor’s note: Mark Hendrickson is the founder and CEO of Plancast, a social site for planning events, which he has decided to stop working on full-time. In this guest post, Hendrickson takes us...
View ArticleGeeknRolla rocks into the London Web Summit, March 19
Way back in 2009 there was no large event dedicated to technology startups in the UK. TechCrunch, under Mike Arrington, was busy trying to get its TechCrunch50/Disrupt programme going in the US, and...
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Have Fear Of Missing Out? timeRAZOR Connects You With Nearby Events
timeRAZOR, the D.C.-area startup which raised $3.4 million pre-launch to build a better events finder, has arrived today on mobile. The new apps, available for both iOS and Android, work by using your...
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Reminder: The TC DC Mini-Meetup Is Tonight
Just a reminder: today is the most important day of the year. It’s TC DC Mini Meet-up Night! We’re here in DC and we’re looking forward to meeting with you all at RFD (810 7th St NW) at 6pm for some...
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TicketLeap Introduces Seating Chart Design Tools For Ambitious Event Planners
Sure there are services to sell tickets to arenas and event spaces (not to mention parties and the like) but thus far there hasn’t been a good way to allow customers to pick their seats. TicketLeap, a...
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Triptrotting Revamps Its Website, Adds Social Activities & Curated Events For...
Fresh on the heels of its $1 million Series A, Triptrotting, a startup that aims to connect travelers with hosts, is relaunching its website with a number of changes. In addition to improved design and...
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Third Pivot’s The Charm? Events Site Ravn Becomes Flash Sales Site Touch Of...
No one ever called a limit on the number pivots a company can do, right? So here’s the latest at a company we’ve been watching for a while now. RAVN, an event planning and sharing app that itself was...
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Morning, Hackers! The 24-Hour Disrupt NYC Hackathon: Coding Ends, Judging...
It’s been a long, caffeine-fueled ride for the hundreds of hackers who have set up at our big Disrupt NY 2012 Hackathon, but the furious process of taking a wild idea and turning it into something...
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Introducing Our 2012 Disrupt NYC Hackathon Winners: Thingscription,...
After nearly 24 hours of fighting fatigue and crafting code, our Disrupt NY 2012 Hackathon is finally drawing to a close. Not a moment too soon — I think some of our hackers are about ready to keel...
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Woofound’s Social Events App Matches People To Places Based On Personality
Woofound, a Maryland-based startup aiming to match your personality to things you want to do, is today launching its iOS application nationwide. The app turns rating activities, places and restaurants...
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After Seed Labs, Cvent Snags CrowdCompass For $10M To Double Down On Mobile...
It’s been an active seven days for Cvent, one of the largest event management companies in the world you’ve never heard of. The company, which offers web-based software for online event registration,...
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Facebook Releases “Weddings and Celebrations” Feature, Maturing With Executives
Facebook released a new “Weddings and Celebrations” feature that will display special events, starting with engagements and weddings, along with friends’ birthdays on the social network. The feature,...
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Eventster Adds Social Signals To Help You Find Events You’ll Like, Know Which...
Eventster, the iOS app which aggregates events across North America and Europe, is rolling out a big update today which it hopes will further differentiate its event listings application from numerous...
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Now In 20 Cities, Startup Grind Aims To Inspire The Next Generation Of Global...
“Silicon Valley doesn’t have a monopoly on brilliant entrepreneurs and founders,” Derek Andersen tells me over coffee, “so we want to find them wherever they live, give them a stage and an opportunity...
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SoRewarding Rebrands, Gets Half-Bought, Launches Deals & Events Platform That...
The daily deal model has seen better days, with the market shrinking and consolidating, and the market leader’s share price in the can. But one startup hopes that it differentiate its deal platform...
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Startup Weekend Acquires Local Events Newsletter Provider StartupDigest;...
Startup Weekend, the organization behind the weekend-long hackathons encouraging entrepreneurship, has acquired local events resource and email newsletter provider StartupDigest for an undisclosed sum....
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Reminder: Our Northern Meetups Are Next Week. Is Your Pitch Ready?
We’ve had such a great response and such persistent requests for additional tickets to the Northern Meetups that we’ve decided to release some more. While about 800 of ya’ll will be able to hang out...
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Foursquare Gets Better For Business: You Can Now Add Events To Your Venue
There are reasons why we go where we go, eat where we eat, and drink where we drink. Maybe it’s the ambience, maybe it’s that cute waitress or waiter, or maybe it’s karaoke night. Today, Foursquare has...
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