Image via CrunchBaseI have stayed on
a lookout for Holiday parties and today I was looking around
PlanCast and I just so happened by
the Settings page. And I got impressed. This might not be a new thing, but it is new to me. Now my
MeetUp RSVPs and
EventBrite RSVPs and my
Facebook Events automatically show up in my PlanCast timeline. I dig that. PlanCast is now going to be more useful to me.
The page now also lets me automatically follow my
Twitter and Facebook friends who might also be on
PlanCast, and when I saw that I was a little hesitant because I have lots of Twitter friends. But then I decided to go for it. Because if you are on Twitter, and if you either follow me or are followed by me, and if you are also signed up for PlanCast, that is a lot of filters. That is like saying if you are at a tech event and you come across someone who does not have a Twitter handle that person is probably not worth networking with.
And my connections on PlanCast ballooned by about 700 people right away. And that's okay. Now I might have more events to choose from. And it's nice to show up at some event and know that there are at least five people there you already know or can quickly know ("Hey, I think you follow me on Twitter!"). You are more likely to pounce on the 200 in the room you don't know that way.
Right now I almost feel about PlanCast the way I felt about Twitter when I first heard of the
embed tweet option. Although it is fair to say the two are in two very different leagues. Like
Dick Costolo once said of
Eric Schmidt: "We are not on the same plane, and I mean in the
Gulfstream sense."
But then my blog itself is not a bad place to look to find events:
December Events.