Google, today, released MyMaps, a feature that allows users to personalize a map with content from 3rd party applications such as local weather, cheap gas prices, photos from Yahoo! Flickr, or videos from YouTube.

While using Maps, we thought you might enjoy seeing things going on in your neighborhood and getting a birds of view of what to do. Add Zvents’ local event search to Google Maps to discover things to do near you or where ever you might be traveling. With Zvents, your map dynamically updates with popular events from our millions of fairs, festivals, activities, concerts, classes, and shows. The application supports our natural language search engine enabling you to define what and/or the time frame of events that should be displayed and by simply dragging the map, you can literally browse your options.

I centered on Seattle, Washington and found a Hairspray Movie Premiere at 5th Avenue Theatre on Monday, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast playing at the Tacoma Musical Playhouse, and a Shakespeare Festival on the water at Luther Burbank Park. Moving the map south though I find Kelly Clarkson playing Rose Garden Arena just down the road in Portland, Oregon. Sure, she’s coming up to Seattle in a couple days anyway but I’m anxious to see her

You might say we’ve put event search on the map.

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