Show HN: Eventivore - Our Submission to the 36 hour Hacka2thon

I like this a lot! Not a fan of how you handle clicking on the pin icons, though; Google Maps uses those pins to open information in a bubble within the window, and having my click open a Facebook page bothered me. It's a shame that your map conveys no useful data except by opening new windows/tabs; possibly consider an interface that loads that FB data in a frame, possibly from the mobile site to conserve space?

Will you eventually have to pay for usage of Google Maps (<a href="http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/10/introduction-of-usage-limits-to-maps.html" rel="nofollow">http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/10/introduction...</a>) if you go over 25000 views per day?<p>I'm asking because I'm cooking up a similar concept, and the upcoming price increase of Google Maps makes me a bit hesitant to use them.<p>The Google Maps Premier page, where my only option is to "Contact Sales" also doesn't seem very friendly to small sites and apps (<a href="http://www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/maps.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/maps.html</a>).

Might be me, but w/ my Firefox, sitting in Tel Aviv, I end up with a disabled/grey map of the US of A and a modal dialog box that has no title / a ~crappy~ style and asks me for a US zip code. [1]<p>Not for me?<p>1: <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1194203/Eventivore.png" rel="nofollow">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1194203/Eventivore.png</a>

Didn't really work for London. I live about an hour away but am fine with going to London when there's startup events. The 5 events shown in London are all either joke pages, local bar quizes or people's private events (Birthday Parties).

FYI - Please click 'allow' when your browser prompts for geo-location. If you don't see many events around you, log in with Facebook and the system will fetch publicly-available events that are connected to your and your friends.

This is really cool, a nice style touch would be to be able to see what happening "this week" or "this weekend". If you sign in and your facebook event is set to private or closed does it aggregate it?

Update: we ended up second place in the Ann Arbor Hacka2thon. GooseCast (ccgoose.com) took the top honors. Thanks for everyone's feedback so far!

Every time I click a pin, a pop up comes up in the map view then immediately closes. Am I using this incorrectly?

Where do the events come from?