AOL Launches New When.com Online Event Guide.From Community Garage Sales to Headliner Concerts, When.com Compiles One of the Broadest Listings of Local Event Information NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. announced today the launch of when.com (http://www.when.com), a new hyper-local online event guide that enables users to search and browse for a wide range of events in their local area, including kids and family activities, community events, live performances, sporting events and many others. Each event listing includes detailed information, reviews, maps and directions from MapQuest, and when applicable, links to purchase tickets. Users can also easily bookmark A stored location for quick retrieval at a later date. Web browsers provide bookmarks that contain the addresses (URLs) of favorite sites. Most electronic references, large text databases and help systems provide bookmarks that mark a location users want to revisit in the future. events or add them to their AOL, Google, Outlook or Yahoo Calendar. "Whether you're looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. events that are suitable for the whole family, something to do on a Friday night or ways to entertain out of town guests, when.com makes it easy for users to find where to go and what to do in their community or places they are traveling to," said Chris Spanos, General Manager of AOL Local and Search Verticals. "When.com is also a powerful way for event organizers and advertisers to reach and connect with a targeted audience by providing them the ability to quickly and easily submit their events right from the when.com homepage." Events on when.com are searchable by time (today, tomorrow, next seven days, etc.), type (Arts and Crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. , Community, Dance, etc.) and by geographic area. Users can easily browse through events by using navigation tabs along the top and left-hand side left-hand side n → izquierda left-hand side left n → linke Seite f left-hand side n → lato or of the page, or search for events by using the convenient search box at the top of the page. Event organizers can list their events at no charge by creating a free when.com account and developing an events page. More information on adding events to when.com is available on the site's Help page (http://www.when.com/support/help). In the coming weeks, additional when.com features will be rolled out including a when.com widget Pronounced "wih-jit," for decades, the term has been a popular word for a generic "thing" when there is no real name for it. It is often used to describe examples of made-up products along with other fictitious names; for example, "10 widgets, 5 frabbits and 2 dingits. that can be added to any social networking See social networking site. social networking - social network page and a new "MyWhen" feature that will enable users to save events to their own when.com calendar and receive alerts and reminders for upcoming events. In addition, content from when.com will be integrated across MapQuest Local, AOL CityGuide, AOL Travel and other AOL websites. When.com is powered by Zvents, a local search engine powering a network of hundreds of Web and mobile partners, featuring event listings to promote local businesses. Added Spanos: "Zvents' powerful platform was crucial in enabling us to create a compelling experience on when.com." When.com (http://www.when.com) is the latest addition to the growing AOL Local Network, which is the largest online local network with a monthly reach of 56 million unduplicated unique visitors.* The site will be monetized through advertising packages that will be sold through Platform-A, AOL's digital advertising business. About AOL AOL is a global Web services company that operates some of the most popular Web destinations, offers a comprehensive suite of free software and services, runs one of the largest Internet access businesses in the U.S., and provides a full set of advertising solutions. A majority-owned subsidiary majority-owned subsidiary A firm in which more than 50% of outstanding voting stock is owned by the parent company. of Time Warner Inc., AOL LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control and its subsidiaries have operations in the U.S., Europe, Canada and Asia. Learn more at AOL.com. * comScore Media Metrix Custom Report, September 2008 |
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