The Lanyrd Blog

A new look for our conference pages

Some of our conference pages were beginning to strain under the weight of all the wonderful information you've been adding, so we've rolled out a fresh new design and some useful new features.

Posted at 8:16pm on 18th February 2011 by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe

Get Lanyrd in your Gmail inbox with Rapportive

We've built an extension for Lanyrd that lets you see the conferences your email contacts are attending in the sidebar of your Gmail inbox.

Posted at 10:40pm on 9th February 2011 by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe

Lanyrd announces YC funding!

Very exciting news that we have been absolutely bursting to tell you all about for a while now: Lanyrd gets investment and support from Y Combinator!

Posted at 9:14am on 31st January 2011 by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe

Get Lanyrd conference recommendations by email

Now you can stay up to date with events your contacts are interested in even more conveniently — direct to your email inbox!

Posted at 10:16am on 28th January 2011 by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe

A new look for the calendar

We are proud to introduce some small but fabulous changes to your Lanyrd calendar page! You can now track and attend events inline and see your own events in a handy tab - and it's a fair bit snappier too!

Posted at 3:25am on 27th January 2011 by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe

Display your events on your own website with Lanyrd Badges

Lanyrd's new JavaScript badges let you display the conferences you are attending, tracking or speaking at on your own website in a variety of interesting ways.

Posted at 7:23pm on 13th January 2011 by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe

How to share your 2011 conference plans

The holiday season is over; a whole wonderful year stretches before us! Could there be a more perfect time to start thinking about all the exciting conferences that lie ahead? And wouldn't it be even cooler if you could easily share those thoughts with your peers and friends? We think it would be!

Posted at 10:40am on 5th January 2011 by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe

Lanyrd feeds: never miss out on a conference

We created Lanyrd to scratch our own itch: we were fed up of missing out on great conferences because we didn't hear about them in time. Today we're launching a new feature that makes it even easier to stay in the loop.

Posted at 12:03am on 8th December 2010 by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe

Find conferences to speak at with Lanyrd

We're excited to launch one of our most requested features today: calls for participation. You can now use Lanyrd to find conferences to speak at, or to promote the call for speakers for an event you are organising.

Posted at 1:57am on 24th November 2010 by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe

Slides, video, audio, sketchnotes... coverage on Lanyrd

We're extremely excited to announce a brand new dimension to Lanyrd today: conference coverage!

Posted at 5:37pm on 2nd November 2010 by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe