SocialVents Takes The Mystery Out Of The Local Scene
Ever wandered around your city with a friend on a random night trying to find something to do? Well, imagine wandering around your city and always knowing what’s going on and where it’s happening. SocialVents.com is a website and application (Android or iPhone) that tells you what’s going on in your area using the GPS function of your phone. Go to the site and you’ll find out about local concerts, plays, games, festivals, charity events, night life, and more all going on in your area. Don’t care for the other stuff and only interested in live music? With 
SocialVents you’re able to filter by category, distance and date to deliver only the events that what you want you to see.
The app is built to not only help people find events, but promotes events too. Users can create an account log on and make it a public or private event. The folks over at SocialVents have even included cool features to let you add photos and include YouTube videos in your event post. Sounds like a lot of work when you could send out an email or mass text right? Not for SocialVents. Overall the site is simple, visually interesting and has some familiar features. For instance, there’s an address bar to type in your location. There is a Google map and 3D pins that appear and show the location of events you’re looking for. Next to that is a scrolling events feed on the left hand side with a running tally of events at the bottom of the page. In fact, if you do a broad blank search using your address it will give you all of the events in your area across all categories through the end of the year. That should keep you busy.
SocialVents is good, but it isn’t perfect. Sometimes it can feel a little empty on events. This is particularly surprising to me, considering how many happy hours and quiz nights would fit oh so appropriately into one of the listed categories. Currently, the site is still in beta testing which means the developers are still adding new tools and improvements to the site daily and hopefully this issue will resolve itself.
From an idea perspective, this startup ranks pretty high in my opinion. Ultimately, how well it does will depend on two things. First, how many people embrace it. Second, and more importantly the quality and amount of events that end up in their database, that will ultimately end up splattered across our computer and smartphone screens. For more information about SocialVents head on over to their website or you can download the applications for mobile phones from iTunes or the Android marketplace.
