An Eventful list of what’s happening in Second Life
The website Eventful maintains a list of Second Life events which can be subscribed to via RSS or visited via the web. You’ll want to filter the list down as the day this was written there was 1,522 events. Eventful results can be refined by date (but not time?), alphabetically and in categories like: Books, Technology, Learning & Education.
I refined the search for Learning & Education for today and saw there were 55 events. Unlike the built-in SL events search (pictured below) Eventful displayed events that had already passed meaning by midday you have to scroll past the first few pages to get the events that are happening now. If this can’t be changed, it’s a major oversight in the design.
I played around with the query “when” field attempting to get events in Second Life sorted after a certain time and didn’t figure it out. You’d think there would be a time range option in at least an advanced search menu? The FAQ was no help. Also the Eventful search was pretty sluggish returning results taking several seconds. Guess I’ve been spoiled by speedy Google results.
April 27th, 2007 • 
TD Goodliffe • 
comment | April 27, 2007 at 09:09 | individual comment-link
We added a “when” parameter specifically to address this: “right now”. It shows events starting from the current hour, instead of starting at midnight today.
http://eventful.com/events?l=Second+Life&t=right+now
That’s the kind of query they on the official Linden blog (the “Educational Events” sidebar), so hopefully it’ll help you as well.
~chris from Eventful
comment | April 30, 2007 at 10:01 | individual comment-link
Great mashup. Reminds me of the Lotro/Google Maps mashup. I imagine we’ll be seeing many more of these in the near future.
comment | April 30, 2007 at 11:19 | individual comment-link
I like Eventful a lot and use it daily.
You can do all sorts of powerful things with Eventful to aggregate, publish and highlight different kinds of events. You can see how I use it on my event listings for New World Notes: http://nwn.blogs.com .
You need to search using the “tag:” + SL event type to get meaningful info from the eventful listings. I.e. “tag:education” not the education keyword that eventful uses on the right side.
Also you can specify a range of dates. I just did “May 1-6″ for example.
I find that with the frequently changing and cancellation of events, that it is always good to re-check the SL official listing on the website. They apparently are working on updating how frequently eventful gets the data dump from the SL feed.