Facebook Connect! Share events and see what your Facebook friends are doing. Click here to connect your Facebook account.
Profiles! Get your own URL that you can share with your friends of all the events you’re interested in attending. Here’s mine! Want to see what a friend has planned this week? Look up their profile or..
RSS! Subscribe to a feed that shows you the events your friends are interested in. You can add it to iGoogle so you can see what they’re planning.
Buzz about it! Add your RiotVine profile to your Google profile and RiotVine will show up under Connected Sites in Google Buzz. You can auto-buzz events, so your Buzz followers can jump in.
Mobile! Our beautiful mobile site just launched! Head to http://riotvine.com on your phone to check it out, discover events on the go and see the events your friends are interested in.
And a bonus sixth reason:
6. SXSW! If you’re going or have a friend that’s going, check out http://riotvine.com/sxsw for the easy guide to SXSW. You can easily search lists of parties and showcases, or for bands you want to see to find all the times they’re playing, see all the parties with free drinks, and easily find ones that don’t need a badge or wristband to attend.
That’s five good reasons to use RiotVine. If you’ve got a good reason why you don’t, drop us a line: http://riotvine.com/contact
Don’t be shy; we love to hear people think, even if you’re not a fan. And we’ll give you credit for your ideas.
Our great, big first press release, announcing our massive SXSW party guide. We’ve got thousands of events, all easily searchable. We’ve got a list of free parties, and parties with free drinks! And we’ve got embedded audio on our SXSW showcases. You can even sort events by Twitter buzz. If this is your first year at SXSW, this is the guide for you.
Not sure where to go or how to get around in Austin? Check out our just published unofficial SXSW guide, with over 2300 easily searchable events: http://riotvine.com/sxsw
This takes 2 minutes and gives you 20 chances to win. Click here for Neon Indian show details on RiotVine.
Click the Add to Favorites button, then Sign-Up with your Facebook account.
During sign-up, invite the Facebook friends you want to see Neon Indian with.
Each invite you send automatically enters you to win two guest list passes to see Neon Indian with Bodega Girls! Winner is announced tomorrow morning so enter now. Skip the line, walk right in. We’ll even try to sneak you backstage
Even if you don’t win, come by. We’ll have gift bags for RiotVine users courtesy of Rescue waiting at the merch booth, right up until we run out.
Here’s a neat little feature we kicked out a couple weeks ago that I totally love, an active friends list. This is a quick list of the people that follow you on Twitter that are on RiotVine, and we recalculate it every night. This is how we show you the events that your friends are attending, so you can hang out with them more.
If you have a RiotVine account, you can see this by clicking here. If you don’t have a RiotVine account, what’re you waiting for?
One of the most requested features we’ve had since launch is the ability to export events to your native calendar app. We’re happy to announce that you’re now able to do just that. Now, when you click Add to My Calendar:
you’ll be able to export the event data directly to the most popular calendars available:
We also take this opportunity to remind you to share this event with your friends online.
If you don’t want to add an event to your RiotVine calendar, you can also export this event to your local calendar from the bar on the right.
The other great addition is the ability to filter events so that RiotVine will just show you what’s happening this weekend or next week, making it easier to drill down to just what you’re looking for. As a teaser, we’ve got major new additions to the filtering options in the works that will help you discover just the events you’re looking for. Finally, tell us what you think of the new features!
The fine gents at the Thrillist spotted us on DartBoston’s Pokin’ Holes show and wrote a great piece on us. Their city coverage is consistently amazing; if you’re not on their mailing list, you’re missing out on some real hidden gems.
Thanks for dropping by our blog! It’s been long overdue but the last few weeks have been a whirlwind of activity. For starters, we were highlighted on DartBoston’s awesome entrepreneurial show, Pokin’ Holes. You can catch the recording here:
It’s a a really candid (maybe too candid!) show that highlights RiotVine as an early stage startup prepping for a VC pitch in just a few days, and goes over where our focus should be. It’s a really informative look for anyone with VC dollar bills in their eyes.
And speaking of the pitch, you’ll be able to watch it, LIVE. It’s another DartBoston show called Capitalize. premiering Tuesday, 11/10/09. It’s an almost ridiculous idea that I couldn’t turn down. Huge, HUGE kudos to the DartBoston crew, especially Cort and Jake, for pulling this off.
In other site news, we’re currently prepping a few minor updates, one of which will put ticket links on a lot of our event pages so expect that very shortly. If you want more site news, be sure to follow @RiotVine, and if you want a healthy event feed for the Boston area, be sure to check out @RiotVineBoston
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