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Upcoming (formerly Upcoming.org) was a social event calendar website that launched in 2003, founded by Andy Baio.〔(Waxy.org: Upcoming.org Launch! )〕 On October 4, 2005, Upcoming.org was acquired by Yahoo!.〔(What's Upcoming at Yahoo! Local )〕〔(Yahoo acquires Upcoming.org | CNet News )〕 In April 2013, Yahoo announced the retirement of Upcoming. In May 2014, Andy Baio announced a Kickstarter campaign to relaunch the site, successfully raising the $30,000 goal. == Features == Upcoming combined features of an event calendar and a social networking site.〔(The Web's Most Useful Sites 2007, Event Calendars | PC World )〕 Primarily, the site was a searchable, browsable repository of upcoming events, such as music concerts, art exhibits, and conferences. Event information was primarily contributed by the user community, although in its later years, an increasing percentage of event data originated from commercial sources. Users could indicate their plans by marking that they are "watching" or "going" to an event. Users could also establish "friend" relationships with each other and receive notifications about what their friends were attending.〔(Upcoming events in Keene, NH, Jon Udell | InfoWorld )〕 Upcoming also offered users reminders via email or SMS when a particular event was 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".〔(The New Upcoming )〕〔(Upcoming.org Absorbed By Faceless Corporation, Free T-Shirts for All | Mashable )〕 Despite this, many users of the site still link to and refer to the site as "Upcoming.org". Upcoming used iCalendar, RSS, and GeoRSS for content syndication and supported an open API for searching or submitting event data. It also used hCalendar microformats, so that events can be downloaded directly into calendar applications.〔(Yahoo! Local adopts Microformats | ZDNet Video )〕 Finally, users could also post badges on their own websites, powered by Javascript, which listed all their Upcoming events. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「upcoming」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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