Archive for the 'social planning' Category
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
A few weeks ago I covered the new cohort of social activities sites. In the subcategory of basic events listing services, notably comprising Upcoming.org, Zvents, and Eventful, I neglected to include BusyTonight. Ironically, I missed it despite the presence of an active blog on which developers write thoughtfully about the philosophy and execution […]
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2 Comments » | Posted in social planning, search
Tagged: busytonight, eventful, events, search, search engines, upcoming, upcoming.org, zvents
Thursday, November 9th, 2006
The responses to A Look at 19 Social Activities Websites brought to my attention other new sites. Ironically, one of them, Vibely, is gestating right here in my own backyard, the DC metro area. Funny how the internet works that way.
Vibely released an alpha preview this week. Founders John L. Kim and […]
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Tagged: 3jam, alpha preview, chosenvip, dc metro area, myspace, nightlife venues, partysync, services, social calendar, social networking, vibely, vip status
Monday, October 30th, 2006
Evite has firmly entrenched itself as the party planning platform. Throwing a party in two weeks or holding a BBQ next weekend? Make an evite and invite a bunch of guests. Let them RSVP. One person makes a plan and announces it to everyone else to accept or not. This […]
Popularity: 13% [?]
2 Comments » | Posted in social planning
Tagged: evite, planypus, renkoo, ruby
Friday, October 27th, 2006
[11/17//2006 - version 2 adds BusyTonight, Submate, Vibely]
After reading the TechCrunch article on nascent activities-centered websites, I decided to take my own look at the activities space. I wound up examining nineteen ventures by the end. Their aims may seem too desparate to lump together in one examination. However, in the abstract, […]
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17 Comments » | Posted in social planning, mobile, social networking
Tagged: craigslist, eventful, facebook, friendster, heyletsgo, ilcu, involver, matchactivity, meetup, myspace, planypus, renkoo, skobee, socializr, upcoming, upcoming.org, weekendr, whosgoing, zvents
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