Event notification and organization utilizing a communication network

A method for notifying a user's contacts of an event of interest to the user, the method comprising:

• as implemented by one or more computing devices configured with specific executable instructions,
• without requiring action by the user, automatically identifying the user's contacts to be notified of the event, wherein at least one of the contacts is automatically identified based at least in part on a frequency of communication with the user;
• generating an event record including data describing the event of interest, which data is freely modified without an organizer's authorization and by request from at least one automatically identified contact to whom organizer rights for the event of interest have not been granted;
• and
• publishing an event notification for the event described in the event record to a plurality of computing devices, each of the computing devices associated with an automatically identified contact.

A system for notifying contacts of an event of possible interest, the system comprising:

• a data store that stores event records, each event record describing an event;
• and
• a computing device in communication with the data store, the computing device operative to:
• automatically identify contacts to whom a notification of an event of possible interest to the contacts is to be provided, wherein at least one of the contacts is automatically identified based at least in part on a frequency of communication with a user of the computing device;
• generate an event record including data describing the event of possible interest;
• receive a modification to the data describing the event of interest from at least one automatically identified contact who has received the notification but who has not been provided organizer rights for the event;
• modify the data describing the event of interest in response to the modification without action by anyone who has been provided organizer rights for the event;
• and
• publish a notification of the event described in the event record to at least one computing device, the at least one computing device associated with an automatically identified contact.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer-executable component for publishing to contacts of a user, a notification of an event of interest the user, the computer-executable component comprising:

• an event organizing component operative to:
• without requiring input from the user, automatically identify contacts to whom the notification of the event of interest to the user is to be published, wherein at least one of the contacts is automatically identified based at least in part on a frequency of communication with the user;
• generate an event record including data describing the event of interest, which data is modifiable by the automatically identified contacts who have received the notification of the event of interest, wherein the data is modifiable without granting organizer rights for the event to the user or the automatically identified contacts;
• and
• publish a notification of the event described in the event record to a plurality of computing devices, each computing device associated with an automatically identified contact.