Skobee: Make plans

Skobee is an interesting web service that's supposed to make it easier to get people together. Having this very week utterly failed to organize a gathering when an old friend came to town, this appeals to me immensely. The main concept is "start general and get specific as needed": you add a bunch of people to an invite list with a vague plan ("dinner soon") and as people get your invite they can suggest places and times ("Mexican, early next week") until a consensus is reached ("Hacienda, 8pm Tuesday"). You can switch back and forth between suggestions and see when friends are available, and it even has built-in local search and maps. Skobee also has a cool feature whereby you can CC Skobee on an e-mail to a friend with a few keywords and it'll automatically set up an event on the web site. I'm definitely trying this out the next time I want to arrange a get-together.

[Via TechCrunch]

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