Peter Caputa likes OpenEvents

Peter blogs about OpenEvents. He discusses the dangers of OpenEvents for his business. Having some events only on your website (exclusivity) might be a competitive advantage. I think that here lies a conflict of interest between the event organiser and the aggregator. The event organiser wants to fill his event to the max and thus wants his event promoted to the max. Why should he want an exclusive deal with the aggregator? Maybe if the aggregator pays for it and uses the event for advertising purposes. In this sense events are not normal content. Event-data is only the metadata about the event and is more similar to advertisements. The event itself is here the real content. So the question is who pays for what here. As an event organiser, read advertiser, I would like to have an OpenEvents standard, as it allows me to advertise my event better. I guess event organiser should get involved here.

The aggregators should not work on exclusivity. Their core competence should be completeness and accessibility. 

Categories/tags: event
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