The home town press definitely paid a lot of attention. First, Michael Bazeley of Silicon Beat wrote about Zvents and Upcoming.org.

Then, Matt Marshall called Zvents and Zimbra the two winners of Launchpad, and filed a story in the Mercury News for good measure.

The next day, he followed up with another Merc story about Zvents, Real Travel, and interesting web trends.

Not to be outdone, Ryan Singel of Wired covered Zvents at Launch Pad, and ZDNet filed stories by both Stepen Bryant and Dan Farber.

We got two stories from TechCrunch, both on launch and at LaunchPad, and Peter Caputa weighed in on Zvents from the East Coast.

Stowe Boyd of Corante gave Zvents a shout, and then Fred Wilson rated Zvents top 3 at LaunchPad (I met Fred for the first time at this conference – smart guy!)

Marc Canter nailed our feelings about Upcoming being bought, and Jeff Jarvis covered us both at LifeHacker and BuzzMachine. I also met Jeff for the first time at this conference – few people can talk that fast and still have all the words make lots of sense.

We got a nice mention from Caterina Fake of Flickr / Yahoo for the Zvents blog-embeddable Ajax iframe calendar, and Jeff Clavier actually went ahead and embedded one on his site.

Ian C. Rodgers of Yahoo! (who I also met) gets my vote for single funniest post on Zvents – yes, Ian, it was gentlemanly – Andy Baio is yet another guy I met for the first time, and he seems way cool.

We got some wonderful, in-depth reviews from a few folks:

• Solution Watch did a phenomenal guided tour of Zvents
• TheLaggard had a very positive review of Zvents (yes, we do want to be useful to normal people!)
• Somewhat Frank had a lot of nice things to say about Zvents
• SpotSearch used the Zvents launch as a test of search engine freshness
• Zoli Erdos deployed the first Zbutton seen in the wild
• Renee Blodgett and William Grosso both discussed Zvents at length.
• And finally, Google’s dentist likes Zvents!
  Update: The GoogleTooth blog has been exposed as a hoax . We still like what he said about Zvents

Wow. Thanks to everyone, and thanks also the the no-doubt many that I’ve missed here. We’re going to work very hard to make Zvents awesome, and meet the high expectations that have been set.

-Tyler

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The blog Zvents Bay Area has launched with a great example of an events post—“A Week on War”:

“Events during the week of October 2nd provide the San Francisco Bay Area with unique opportunities to explore the history and nature of modern conflict.”

This lengthy post features an eclectic variety of local events, from film in Berkeley to a submarine tour and a football game. Check it out—it’s amazing what having a linkable, dynamic events platform can do for local bloggers.

-Tyler

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