This document discusses the features of an event discovery and recommendation website. It uses MapBox maps, suggests events based on contacts and interests, and shows event details pages. Users can track topics by location and the site has a hierarchical place database. It provides rich snippets, GeoRSS feeds, and supports search within areas by indexing the place hierarchy. Events have primary venues to plot on maps and the site integrates with Foursquare.

2. We use MapBox maps around the site

3. We suggest events based
on the user’s Twitter
and LinkedIn contacts,
and their interests

4. Each event has a page showing who is speaking and
attending, the schedule and more

5. Speakers get detailed profile pages

6. Users can track topics in
specific geographical regions

7. The site is built around a place hierarchy

8. So you can see everything in a specific city,
or everything in England

9. Or view events for a topic in a place

10. Our microformats provide
rich site snippets on Google

11. We provide GeoRSS feeds,
which can be fed in to Google Maps

12. Our hierarchical place database
is built on top of Yahoo! Geo Planet

13. We run off our own copy of the GeoPlanet database,
which Yahoo! no longer provide...

14. But it has been mirrored by the Internet Archive

15. You can explore GeoPlanet using Yahoo!’s YQL API

16. treebeard is an excellent library for
dealing with trees in a SQL database

17. Our search feature is built on top of Solr...

18. We support search within an area by indexing
the full place hierarchy for each event

19. Events have a primary venue, so we can
plot them as a single point on a map

20. We encourage people to attach existing
venues first to help avoid duplicates

22. Lanyrd has a foursquare app,
which provides event information
when you check in to the venue

23. We have a tool to help match
our venues to foursquare venues

24. Foursquare have an API specifically for
matching venues

25. The apps platform is very powerful,
and extremely easy to integrate with