We’ve been busy at Zvents lately, mostly with building a bunch of cool new functionality to make our users happy. One of the neatest new things we’ve launched is an embeddable dynamic calendar which can be used on any website. If you’re reading this blog, you are no-doubt familiar with the blog calendar widget that we announced at our launch.

We’ve received a lot of requests from folks for a calendar object that was larger and useful in contexts beyond a blog sidebar, and so last week at the When 2.0 Conference at Stanford, we announced and demoed Zvents venue page or a Zvents group page and created versions that anyone can embed on their own website. We’ve put up some demo sites on Blogspot to show this functionality. Based on our ongoing work with some great folks up in Tacoma, here is an example venue calendar for the Tacoma Museum of Glass, and here is an example group calendar for the shared Tacoma Arts Calendar. We’re also able to build these against a saved search, as shown by this jazz music calendar for the SF Bay Area.

Some cool features of these calendars:
* Switch between 1-day, 3-day, week, and month views
* Scroll dynamically forward and backward in time
* Readers can get RSS feeds and ICal directly from the hosting page
* Mouseovers on the 30-day view show details for daily events

These calendars are a perfect way for venues, community organizations, bloggers with aspirations, and small media sites to quickly and easily create a never-empty, highly-relevant events calendar for their sites. We haven’t yet rolled the interface into Zvents.com so that you can create your own, but we’re happy to spend 10 minutes making one specially just for you if you contact us at business@zvents.com.

-Shane

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