What can you use the application for?
Eventful is a website that helps people create or find out new events and promote and share them. It keeps one informed of millions of events that take place in different parts around the world. Such events might include concerts, rallies, contests, performances or any other significant event under the sun. With Eventful as a guide, one can never run out of options or miss an event of his/her choice. It helps one pick events of choice from a long list of options. Options range from events related to museums to sports to science, schools, travels, technology and what not. Events of interests can be kept a tab of and even shared with friends or one can even promote events organized by him/her. "Demand" is one of the very popular features of it. Users can send out demands for their favorite performers or artists and depending on the place from where the maximum demands come in, artists can plan their next performance there and connect with the fans better. One can sort events by relevance, popularity, date or venue; or enter the distance as a parameter to find local events. The users can also create or join communities as per their interest. True to its name, Eventful surely makes the lives of its users eventful. With email alerts, personal events watch list and ability to add events to calendars; one can stay assured of not missing even a single favorite event.
What is the history and popularity of the application?
Eventful was launched in January, 2004 by Brian Dear as EVDB, Inc. He created such a service because he felt that there is really a need for something like this on the web. So, Eventful was started to serve as a guide to all the events happening in the town. It was relaunched as Eventful in March, 2005 and is based in California. They currently have around five million users.
What are the differences to other applications?
Eventful is quite often confused as an event planning site which it is not. Eventful is different from other event planning websites on the net. It does nothing to help one arrange an event but its work is limited to providing information about what is happening where and when. It provides a list of upcoming events from which the users can decide where they wish to go and then tell their friends about them. So, the planning part rests on the users only.
How does the application look and feel to use?
Eventful appears to be just like any other site on the net. There's nothing great about the look or designing. It has a white background on which the text appears in blue and black. The logo 'eventful' appears in plain text on the top left corner in blue and green. The site is simple to navigate. There are spaces for ads on the site.
How does the registration process work?
In order to create, find or share events and receive notifications of favorite events, one has to sign up. The registration process is not very lengthy. One needs to provide basic information such as email, city, country and date of birth only. This brings one to his/ her home page. Once there, users can search for friends, track events, demand performances of their favorite artists, edit profile or join a group.
What does it cost to use the application?
Eventful is a free web service. Since beginning the company has successfully raised a financing of $10 million. Some of it prominent investors include the likes of Esther Dyson, Evan Williams along with Mark Pincus, Josh Kopelman, Bay Partners and Omidyar network. It earns from advertising also.
Who would you recommend the application to?
Eventful is an events information provider. It caters to the needs of people who wish to keep themselves updated of what's happening in the town, when and where. It is not about planning an event, but searching for a suitable event. Therefore, it is recommended to all those who want to be a part of all the happening events in the town as per their preferences.
