Facebook has added a feature, which allows users to add events and invite people to them right from the publisher box. Now creating an event is pretty much as simple as sharing a link.
To add an event, just push the "more" arrow button on the publisher box, and you will find events. Once you fill out the form, it will be posted to you news feed, and you can invite guests from there.
You could learn a lot from a #badabing hashtag. If you search that on Twitter, you'll find all kinds of tweets from those in attendance at Microsoft's Bing Search Summit.
It is interesting to see some of the things people are talking about with regards to Bing, and as the search engine is still in its infancy, everybody wants to know all they can. If you dont' feel like wading through tons and tons of tweets, relax. I've done it for you (although I'm sure there will be plenty more since the time of this writing).
Not that this comes as a surprise, but the Kentucky Derby is in on the social media game. We're seeing pretty much every major event become more engaging with the general public. Not unlike the Presidential Inauguration or the NFL Draft, there are plenty of ways to get involved with the Kentucky Derby online as well.
SearchRank Founder and CEO David Wallace is a very busy guy. He has to have a schedule. At the SMX West session on Productivity Tips for the Busy Search Marketer, he says that when you're busy you have to have a routine.
YouTube announced today that they are hosting a live event in San Francisco on November 22, appropriately titled, "YouTube Live". The event will be some kind of concert/variety show hybrid, and will revolve around so called Youtube "phenomenon". If you are interested, but can't make it to San Francisco, you're in luck because they're streaming it live on YouTube. They've created a channel specifically for the event (where you can also learn more about it.
Google has released a tool (in beta of course) called Google Moderator to help you prioritize questions for Q&A sessions. It's hosted by the Google App Engine and lets users submit questions directed toward certain people. Then others can vote on the question's worth. Google Platform Engineer Taliver Heath talks a little bit about how the tool came to fruition:
I just arrived at Blogworld Expo and am getting ready for a weekend of great bonding with more than a thousand fellow bloggers as well as two great sessions that I am looking forward to. My first is on a panel moderated by my friend Kelly Feller from Intel all about social media case studies from the real world.
Yahoo! kicked off Open Hack 2008 today at its headquarters in Sunnyvale. The company has already demonstrated new components of its "open strategy". The below video is a teaser for the event.
May 28th and May 29th appear to be pretty quiet days - on a national level, there shouldn't be any major events or holidays. So, although we know not everyone will be able to attend, Google seems to have picked a good period in which to hold a developer gathering.
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