With Summer well on its way fairs and festivals from Boston to San Jose, we’ve partnered with Google to release schedules of summer events through Google Calendar.

A wonderful scheduling and organization platform, Google Calendar helps you keep track of life’s important events. With the launch of a new Calendar Gallery yesterday, Google has made available to you various schedules and things to do, in particular, Summer events. Leveraging Zvents’ events in Chicago as well as those available through our partners in San Jose, Detroit, and Orange County California, we have your summer stocked with art fairs, music festivals, celebrations and block parties to keep you entertained.

From the start, we wanted our Google Calendar™ web-based calendar service to take all the work out of “managing your calendar,” and a key piece of that was making it easy to search among public calendars for interesting events – whether it’s a local children’s story hour or the San Antonio Spurs schedule – and add them to your personal calendar with one click.

Beyond the themed event calendars available through Google’s gallery, hundreds of unique events and schedules are already, readily accessible and easily added to your Calendar with the click of a button. Whether you want the summer planned or prefer to pick and choose what’s right for you, Google Calendar will organize your life, and we’ll be here, helping you discover things to do.

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Zvents aggregates public events and powers event search functionality for media partners. Our public events go with personal calendaring like peanut butter and chocolate.

We’re very pleased to be offering integration with Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo Calendar, Google’s GCal, and AOL’s new personal calendar. For any event in Zvents and our partners, clicking on the “add to calendar” icon gives the users a popup where they can choose their personal calendar, and instantly add the event.

The AOL calendar is worthy of special mention. AOL has tens of millions of personal calendar users, and they’ve recently launched a new, very cool, highly interactive calendar for them. As part of the new ‘Open AOL’ trend, they’ve created a new set of APIs to the calendar, and Zvents is pleased to be the first partner to integrate with them.

We are committed to providing the best experience for our users and our media partners, and will continue to work to integrate with other highly complementary products like these.

-Tyler

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We’ve been busy at Zvents lately, mostly with building a bunch of cool new functionality to make our users happy. One of the neatest new things we’ve launched is an embeddable dynamic calendar which can be used on any website. If you’re reading this blog, you are no-doubt familiar with the blog calendar widget that we announced at our launch.

We’ve received a lot of requests from folks for a calendar object that was larger and useful in contexts beyond a blog sidebar, and so last week at the When 2.0 Conference at Stanford, we announced and demoed Zvents venue page or a Zvents group page and created versions that anyone can embed on their own website. We’ve put up some demo sites on Blogspot to show this functionality. Based on our ongoing work with some great folks up in Tacoma, here is an example venue calendar for the Tacoma Museum of Glass, and here is an example group calendar for the shared Tacoma Arts Calendar. We’re also able to build these against a saved search, as shown by this jazz music calendar for the SF Bay Area.

Some cool features of these calendars:
* Switch between 1-day, 3-day, week, and month views
* Scroll dynamically forward and backward in time
* Readers can get RSS feeds and ICal directly from the hosting page
* Mouseovers on the 30-day view show details for daily events

These calendars are a perfect way for venues, community organizations, bloggers with aspirations, and small media sites to quickly and easily create a never-empty, highly-relevant events calendar for their sites. We haven’t yet rolled the interface into Zvents.com so that you can create your own, but we’re happy to spend 10 minutes making one specially just for you if you contact us at business@zvents.com.

-Shane

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