Features
Upcoming combines features of an event calendar and a social networking site. Primarily, the site is a searchable, browsable repository of upcoming events, such as music concerts, art exhibits, business conferences, and so on. Event information can be contributed by the user community, although an increasing percentage of event data now comes from commercial sources. Users can indicate their plans by marking that they are "going" to or "interested" in an event. Users may also establish "friend" relationships with each other and receive notifications about what their friends are planning. Upcoming also offers users reminders via email or SMS when a particular event is about to occur.
The site switched to the Yahoo! user accounts system in early 2007, and changed its domain name to upcoming.yahoo.com. At the same time, the site formally changed its name from "Upcoming.org" to simply "Upcoming". Despite this, many users of the site still link to and refer to the site as "Upcoming.org".
Upcoming uses iCalendar, RSS, and GeoRSS for content syndication and supports an open API for searching or submitting event data. It also uses hCalendar microformats, so that events can be downloaded directly into calendar applications. Finally, users can also post badges on their own websites, powered by Javascript, which list all their Upcoming events.
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