Sched.org: Geeks’ biggest SXSW winner
Written by admin on March 14th, 2008 in Gadgets.
This year’s big winner at the SXSW was Sched.org. Tauted as this year’s Twitter, Sched.org is a simple scheduling app that was developed in a mere 14 hours by Florida developers Taylor McKnight, a 24-year old web designer, and Mehta, 27, an IT consultant.
Last year, Twitter proved to be a success and still continues to be a winner, with its micro-blogging feature. Users are allowed to post and receive simple updates wherever they are via their laptops or phone. And this year, Sched.org proved just the same by posting a more organized schedule of the conference.
Sched.org is a calendaring service that solves schedule management. This year being first used at the SXSW, geeks and participants are updated of the next conference happenings, as well as know who is attending.
The application’s developers and Blogger and Chime.tv founders, Mehta and McKnight, worked on the program using an Ajax interface. McKnight worked on the app first while on a vacation in Mexico, thinking about how the schedule of the upcoming SXSW could be organized. He built a simple kit and sent it to Mehta before his vacation was over. Sunday, McKnight showed the kit to Mehta and they both decided to finish the program.
To be used during the SXSW, the two brilliant developers had to enter all the conference schedules, both official and unofficial, but had to enter by hand the unofficial ones. Mehta even hoped that they could have worked on the Sched a bit earlier so everything was automated.
More than 1,900 users have already signed-up and are currently utilizing the website, most are from the SXSW crowd. Creating a “sched” of one’s own event will be possible in the very near future according to the website. But for now, only SXSW and Austin activities are posted.
Read [Wired]
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