Yahoo Acquires Upcoming.org Social Event Calendar

Upcoming.org is a social event calendar; Manage your events, share events with friends and family, and syndicate your calendar to your own site. Yahoo news says that Upcoming.org is now a member of the Yahoo! family.

The yahoo search blog announced

“In just a few years, most of it spent on nights and weekends, the Upcoming team has built an excellent site with a loyal and growing following. Now that they’ve joined Yahoo!, together we’ll build a social events platform that will integrate with our existing events offering and other areas of Y!, and will continue to support all web users in an open, participatory way.”

And some snippets from what those people behind Upcoming.org have to say -
Andy from Waxy.org says

“It’s immensely satisfying for a company as interesting and high-profile as Yahoo to validate the hard work we’ve done, and to see the future potential for growth. After all, Upcoming was always a side project, fueled by passion and caffeine in the spare hours when we weren’t at our respective day jobs. When I think about how much we were able to pull off with so little, and what we’ll now be able to do with the staggering resources Yahoo has to offer…”

Gordon at GetLucky.net says

“Tackling the tricky problems behind events is a worthy challenge. Many sites make an attempt to be a calendar on the Internet, but what both Upcoming and Y! have recognized is that it takes more than being a comprehensive data source to get relevant, interesting event information to yourself and your friends.”

Leonard at RandomFoo says

“I have to admit that this seemed a bit unlikely to me when this possibility first came up, after all, we were just getting started. But after our initial talks, it was obvious that Yahoo! had the same passion we did, and most importantly, that they both got, and shared our vision. Moving forward, we now have the freedom, resources, and support to pursue the event space on a whole different level, working with some of the brightest and most motivated people in the world. I’m not sure you can beat that combination.”

Well the note on the site - “Upcoming.org is now a part of Yahoo! and use of this site is now subject to the Yahoo! Privacy Policy.” say it all. Hopefully they have bigger and better things planned for this wonderful site!