{"id":6748,"date":"2017-04-05T13:23:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T13:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6748"},"modified":"2017-04-05T13:23:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T13:23:01","slug":"linked-upcoming-org-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/04\/05\/linked-upcoming-org-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: Upcoming.org is BACK!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3216,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/upcoming.org\\\/about&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250927063006\\\/https:\\\/\\\/upcoming.org\\\/about&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 03:18:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-12 05:53:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 04:11:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 09:53:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 03:47:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 03:47:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3217,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/3161082780&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190201132156\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/3161082780\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 03:18:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-12 05:53:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 04:11:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 09:53:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 03:47:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 03:47:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3218,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/2930875306&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190128035325\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/2930875306\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 03:18:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-12 05:53:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 04:11:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 09:53:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 03:47:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 03:47:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3219,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/2614907516&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190125145823\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/2614907516\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 03:18:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-12 05:53:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 09:53:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 09:53:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/upcoming.org\/about\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Upcoming About Page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Shortly after they shut it down, Yahoo offered to sell the domain back to me, an unprecedented move for a former acquisition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I decided to launch a Kickstarter project to gauge interest in bringing Upcoming back from the dead. With the incredible support and infinite patience of 1,787 backers, I rebuilt Upcoming from scratch, restored the event archive, and relaunched the community in March 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thank you for believing in it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a few Flickr screenshots of Upcoming in a time I was hosting Macworld events. It was a valuable service for Web 2.0 in San Francisco. While I have no use for it in New Hampshire (nor will I expect any NH events get posted to Upcoming), it does serve a valuable purpose in tech and I will gladly support any service that takes away power from Facebook and gives people an option.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View &#039;Macworld Groups on Upcoming&#039; on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/3161082780\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Macworld Groups on Upcoming\"  width=\"\"  height=\"\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3079\/3161082780_fbfe8f84bb.jpg\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nick Starr and I hosted Mimosa Factory and Yoono and I worked together to host Tweets &amp; Dreenks each month. Laura always designed our marketing materials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View &#039;Tweets and Drinks on Upcoming Front page&#039; on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/2930875306\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Tweets and Drinks on Upcoming Front page\"  width=\"634\"  height=\"640\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3217\/2930875306_672d87900e_z.jpg?zz=1\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hosted a Keith and the Girl meetup in SF<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View &#039;My Events (top of upcoming.org)&#039; on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/2614907516\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"My Events (top of upcoming.org)\"  width=\"\"  height=\"\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3079\/2614907516_65aa9092d6.jpg\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I certainly owe a lot to this service as it was and wish everyone at Upcoming the best of luck with the re-launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Upcoming About Page: Shortly after they shut it down, Yahoo offered to sell the domain back to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-04-05T13:23:18Z","apple_news_api_id":"af7fd74c-5f67-46bd-99eb-eb9207ac168f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-04-05T13:23:18Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ar3_XTF9nRr2Z6-uSB6wWjw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1KQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5329,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/01\/19\/linked-bts-opus-of-discovery\/","url_meta":{"origin":6748,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;BT&#8217;s Opus of Discovery&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"January 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via DJMac: \u201cBut those formative experiences of discovering music are now different,\u201d he says with nostalgia. \u201cYou go to a SoundCloud link and it\u2019s no wonder people\u2019s attention spans are less than 11 seconds. 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