A Local Events Browser
The Event Browser queries Yahoo! Local Events via a map-driven experience leveraging the new Yahoo! Maps AJAX API. We'll start you out in a map view of San Francisco, looking at all events for today and the next two days. Pick another location, other days, or a particular type of event to see all the events that the Event Browser finds that match your choices.
TECHNICAL NOTES
  • Mega mashup across lots of Yahoo! REST APIs
  • All client-side Javascript, data fetched through AJAX
  • Simple eventing system to cleanly separate UI widgets from active data set
  • To display appropriate images for events, local event output was sent into the Term Extraction API, then the term vector was given to the Image Search API. The results are often incredibly accurate.
  • Maps 4.0 AJAX API
  • Term Extraction API
  • Image Search API
  • Local Search API
  • Geocoding API
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 Use the map just like Yahoo! Maps. Drag or click to a new location and zoom in and out to change locations.
2
 Select the title to type in a new location.
3
 Make the location your home location to always start the map here.
4
 Pick a different date this month, or scroll to another month.
5
 Pick a different tag to narrow in on a category of events.
6
 Summary of results in the venue listing.
7
 Preview a summary of events in a venue.
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 Open the detail of an event to see performances and add them to your calendar. Images are served from the Image API.