smart events
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- kiril
I would like to share a new concept we've developed lately of finding events.
The idea was to find a way to display what events are going on by looking at what is being shared and discussed on twitter.
People are actually talking a lot about what events are coming up and going on. The challenge was to distinguish those events from the huge amount of tweets which are based on 140 characters of text.
So we come up with the Tweet Agenda. The current alpha versions searches for events in NY, London and Amsterdam. At the moment we are working on extending it to more locations worldwide.
We expected to see a lot of mainstream events and it turned out to be a good place for finding exclusive workshops, shows, parties, seminars, expositions etc.
the result can be found at: http://tweetagenda.com
and I'm really curious to hear your feedback
- kiril0
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- detritus0
tl;dr: Nice idea, with neat interaction — not sure about the layout.
Initial thoughts — I have no idea where to begin, or what your site does. If you hadn't've told me here, I'd be totally ignorant. Even once I've found the top bar rollover, it's still quite a dense proposition.
"Please note: The current supported locations are NYC, London and Amsterdam". My first 'tweet' says 'Edinburgh', I'm guessing the 'tweeter' is based in London?
Functionally, you're only using about 20% of the screen estate. I'm guessing this focuses on mobile, fair enough.. but why so little consideration for desktop users?
I'd trade the small box size for more of the description — as it is, I essentially have to click on *every* entry, just to see what it consists of.
Your proposition assumes quite a lot of technical and cultural (as in social networkery) knowledge. If I was a regular Twitterer, I guess I'd see more clearly what you're doing. If I was a regular twitterer, might I already have other channels for checking stuff out locally?
Privacy Policy / Disclaimer / Contact — all in popups and Dutch?
Your cherry is badly cut out :)
Good luck!
- ********0
I like it, nice idea, really like the navigation, and the Filter options work well.
