Thanks,
Tom

But what if you created an FB app that let you have CrowdVine functionality integrated into the FB event page that might already be set up. What drives me, and everyone else, nuts about what is currently happening is that some events have FOUR places to sign up. Such is the case for the various BarCampBanks coming up in the next three weeks. For instance, BarCampBankSF has an event wiki, a Facebook event page, an EventBrite payment page, and also a CrowdVine page. Nevermind an Upcoming page. Each of these sites has their pluses and minuses. Anyone can put anything on the wiki. That’s a handy thing to have. Facebook deals great with sign ups, attendance and declines, and is REALLY easy to spread the word to others (both in direct invites, and indirectly thru the newsfeed), but can’t handle payments which EventBrite does just fine. The bummer is that not everyone is on Facebook yet, and the idea stops some people cold. I really like the functionality you’ve built into CrowdVine, but am wondering if it could operate more like a plug-in to Facebook (like Dopplr) and give it’s added functionality to Facebook events, rather than having all my FB data imported into Crowdvine. or at least some other type of synergy between the two so that I don’t have to “duplicate” my actions on both sites.

Facebook also treats people as unique individuals, rather than your “import” model, which treats events as individual, but then duplicate and clones oneself for multiple events. A person should be able to simply attend multiple events. That way, you could even have a record of events you attended in the past, and others you’re attending in the future, providing a more complete view of the person.