A much requested feature from when we launched RSS feeds. We're trying pretty hard to make sure we don't flood your inbox. Email logic is surprisingly tricky.
This is the feature that's got me signed up - I don't attend a lot of conferences (and even when I do, it's often to speak rather than primarily attend), and in part this is because it's hard to track ones of interest. It doesn't get much easier than 'in my inbox'.
It was also an interesting way to get a snapshot of my Twitter connections - knowing which conferences my connections are tracking reveals a lot about their various interests and global locations.
I'm curious about how Lanyrd is going to make money so they can stay around and continue their awesome service. I love using it to stay up to date on conferences but I really would love to know that they'll be around for a long time.
We're confident we can make a business out of this. There are plenty of routes we can go down, at the moment we're working on exploring the problem space and figuring out which are the most viable.
Well Simon touts Lanyrd as a "wikipedia for conferences". Well that's selling it a bit short. But Wikipedia manages to survive quite happily without being a "viable business".
We used Lanyrd for BarCamp Southampton - awesomely useful service, very easy to use :) This new email feature should make event discovery a lot faster/easier so sounds like a great new feature to me!
Given that this blog post about an obscure website releasing a minor feature hit #1 within a few minutes of being posted, it seems pretty likely that there's some voting shenanigans going on.
