Chuck Norris wrote:
Hi Marv,
Unfortunately, the ping program turned out to be much less useful than
we originally anticipated. For public events, iCalendar data is
really not very useful, since it doesn't have a strong notion of
"where" the event is occurring. As you can image, the location is
crucially important for someone wanting to attend a public event.
Since iCalendar has only a string field for specifying location, most
people don't put much more than a hint as to the venue. For example,
people put things like "Macky Auditorium", instead of full address
information.
If you want to get your events into Eventful, we have a couple of
options. You can give us a data feed of some sort (XML works well) at
some URL out in the Internet, and we can add your feed to our regular
ingest process that periodically grabs your data and adds it to the
database. Alternatively, you can use our API and add the data
directly yourself. The API docs are at http://api.eventful.com.
The site was supposed to not be mentioning the ping service any more -
I'll make sure references to it are removed.
Hope this helps.
Chuck
Why not re-write the ping service to parse hCalendar ?
~ Marv.
