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Milestones!

Yes even little old @eventtrack has them, we are trucking along and making progress and making some headway into the world of online web services so quite excited about that!

We are also about to hit a milestone, we already crossed over the more than 100,000 social objects collected and now we are about to pass over the 100 events tracked.

Each individual category of social objects is steadily increasing as well.

Thank you everyone for helping bring @eventtrack to life!

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Tag Galaxy

Surfing this morning we came across Tag Galaxy, a Thesis work being done. Unfortunately there does not seem to be an easy way of calling a specific tag via the URL the site is well worth a look.

The image is a screen grab of the SXSW tag, now this project connects just to flickr but still quite impressive considering the millions of photos there. During the last months though Eventtrack has learned that Picasa and SmugMug have large amounts of event related photos as well.

I’m still searching for a contact email from the student who created this to see if there is a chance for a direct URL call so I can easily combine this into Eventtrack, if anyone knows

Steven Wood of the Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg I would much appreciate a introduction.

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They are in the wild!

Little addition to the @eventtrack family,

Many thanks to Coté for the “push”

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Alpha v0.1 AIR App

With Adobe release of AIR the increasing number of users wanting an AIR app for a particular service has been amazing. The cross platform nature helps to bridge the gaps. We’ll @eventtrack has decided to give it a go as well. Learning Flex, AIR and ActionScript has been an interesting adventure and progress has been made. The following are some screen shots of where things stand right now.Here we are hard at work in Flex Builder 3Now it’s running live! Just login and you are ready to goThen select your event from the list of active events, you can also choose how many records to initially pull back, at the moment it’s only set to 20, 50 or 100.Once your event loads you can instantly see how many various social objects have been captured as well as the latest results.Not sure when it will be finished but considering the Flex Builder 3 license expires in 14 days it’ll need to be before then, if at all.

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iPhone WebApp Updated!

In order to ensure everyone has the ability to participate, regardless of outages or network issues or connection issues we decided to add one additional means of participating in an event.

The bookmarklet is already available and now we’ve just updated the iPhone/iPod Touch Webapp to provide this feature as well.

First you need to be a registered member here on @eventtrack, then in the Webapp view an event.

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

There you will see the option to “Participate”, login in and from then on you will get

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

It defaults to “Chat/Conversation” but you can choose as well from the drop down just like in the bookmarklet.

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eventtrack, iphone, ipod touch

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Get your satisfaction!

We’ve decided to go with the most excellent service, Get Satisfaction.

Have a problem, suggestion, idea or thought simply drop us a line there and also please be sure to check there if you are having an issue as we may already be aware and working hard to fix it!

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Promote your event

A small little update while still waiting to hear back from Twitter.

Promote your event, now you can easily grab an image and do a bit of promoting yourself!

Just check out the earthday event for an example!

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eventtrack

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Taking a beating…

We are currently taking a beating, it seems that everything is running 100% fine except for the connections to Twitter.

Either we have been blocked by Twitter or our host is having issues in either case we hope to hear soon from the folks at Twitter and based on that response we may need to contact our host.

Sorry for the inconvenience, it’s times like this that you realize running something like this service in your “spare time” with basically zero resources can be a nightmare.

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Ohh our first contest!

I love contests and challenges so I decided why not have one here on @eventtrack.

I’ve had some “comments”, well we’ll call them “comments” anyway about the logo.

So the contest is a new logo design, the winner will receive the first (maybe the only) t-shirt with the new logo on it.

THe first submission is already in and I will run the contest until May 15, 2008.

Now I really need to stick with the calendar/search idea but it should also encompass the idea of “tracking people in the moment”.

Here are the Hex and RGB values for the colors I use.

• #9FBFD6
• #4C88B2
• #106098
• #0B4065
• #052033
• #D6B7A0
• #B3774D
• #994A11
• #66310B
• #331906

All submissions will be mine to use as I wish, due credit will be given for the chosen one.

To submit you simply need to upload your photo to one of the various photo sharing sites that @eventtrack is already connected to and tag it “eventtrack”.

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Browsing the photos in style…

Thanks to the cool “Piclens” I’ve now added the ability to view all the event photo galleries in “3D slideshow” format.

For those who don’t have the browser plugin you can still check it out via the “lite” version.

For those with the browser plugin just move your mouse over one of the images and click the arrow.

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development, eventtrack, piclens

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