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Heineken International uses MarkThisDate

We are very proud to announce that Heineken added our publish widget to their international homepage. Heineken let’s visitors, analysts and other interested parties add annual shareholders meetings, analyst meetings and press announcements with the push-of-a-button to their calendar. With doing so the interested parties get access to livestreams, presentation and podcasts of these sessions all through their calendars. This is a great example of calvertising.

And the winners are ….

….. not us. Although we didn’t win one of the Dutch Web 2.0 Award we had a great time Friday night. Of course congrats to all the winners (Zoom, Buurtlink, Google, Netvibes, Hyves, eBuddy) and many thanks to the people that voted for us.

We have got the whole world in our hands

As mentioned in this post our partnership with bank-holidays.com has been expanded…..with the world. You can now download all holidays from any country (and a lot of regions within that country) in the world to your calendar. Soon our functionality will be available through the bank-holidays website. Did you eg know that today (17/1/2007) is Cook’s Possession Day in South Georgia?? Well now you do

Hiptop/Sidekick up and running

We made some tweaks to our Hiptop/Sidekick import functionality. Now you can upload any calendar into your Hiptop in your own timezone. For instructions check here. Thanks for helping us out with testing.

Dutch Web2.0 Awards nominated (2x)

We have been nominated in two categories of the Dutch Web2.0 Awards. (most innovative concept, best Dutch app). All contestants are now encouraging their visitors to vote for them through their weblogs, newsletters, websites etc (all very web1.0). Not us (so unfair to influence the voter) …… we do it through our own app, so download or subscribe to your favorite calendar and experience the power of calvertising.

Hiptop/Sidekick help needed

We are testing some new functionality which let’s Hiptop/Sidekick users import our calendars. we need some help. If you are a Hiptopper/Sidekicker and want to help us out with a couple of simple tests please comment to this post or send an email to info @ markthisdate.com

Happy New Year!

We wish everyone a very happy and healthy 2007.

European Bank Holiday Calendars

As a result of our partnership with Bank-Holidays.com we now provide all correct and complete bank holidays for 25 European country’s. Bank-Holiday uses our widget on their website to provide their visitors with our functionality. Soon you can find all the bank- holidays in the world on MarkThisDate.com
Bank-Holidays is the source for bank holidays in the world.

Make your RSS reader a calendar?

Ever thought about using your RSS reader as a calendar. Why not? MarkThisDate.com now provides you the option to export your favourite calendars to your favourite rss readers including Bloglines, Google Reader, Google Homepage, My AOL, My Yahoo, My MSN, Rojo, Pageflakes, Newsgator, Netvibes and Windows Live.

Any other requests?

Microformats: class=”vevent”

Microformats……… anyone heard of them. I recently did and I must say: interesting concept!

Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.

Although accurate this definition screams for an example:

Say you have a website and you have your contact details on there eg Donald Duck, Duckstreet 99, Ducktown. Only humans are able to understand that an address is ‘hidden’ in this text. Computers just see text. Now .. what if we put some code around these details so computers can recognize the address as being an address? We have created a hcard.

Now that the concept is clear the question what can you use it for. This is interesting. Not only addresses but also events, reviews, relations are good usable with the microformats.

The implementation of microformats took us about 4 hours. All our events are now individually importable in e.g. Google calendar by using this FF extension, the events are picked up by some searchengines and it is just a cool feature. For the exact programming details see the Microformats.org website.

Current browsers do not recognise the microformats. If you use Firefox and have the tail extension installed you are ready to go.