Tag: EVENTS

If you thought Facebook ruled your social life before, wait until you see the new options for event and app invites. It prompts you to select Facebook friends, and then to import the email addresses of your friends who don't have Facebook. That means your friends might be inviting you to all kinds of stupid stuff via email, even if you're not on Facebook. The new contact import feature can get ...

Gmail and Google Calendar now work even better together, with a new Gmail interface for attaching event invitations. When you compose a new message, you'll see an "attach invitation" link under the subject field, right next to the familiar "attach file" button. You can fill in an event title, location, and time, and everyone in the To/Cc/Bcc fields will be added to the event. If your friends ...

What happens when a photo-sharing startup with a smart new approach meets the biggest online photo behemoth in the galaxy? We're about to find out. Facebook has just bought Divvyshot, a photo service that's centered around groups and events, rather than individual albums. This group sharing approach is awesome for photos of parties, conferences, shows, and other big events with multiple ...

Upcoming, the venerable social events calendar that was founded in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005, has undoubtedly seen better days. There are other places to post events and invite friends now -- notably, Facebook -- and Upcoming has dwindled in popularity. There's still a goldmine of great events on the site, though, especially if you live in a big city. Happening, a new Upcoming client for ...

Divvyshot is a new photo-sharing service that makes it ridiculously easy for friends to combine all their photos from an event into a single album that everyone in the group can access. There's an iPhone client and a web interface (desktop apps coming soon) providing numerous ways to view and edit albums. The flashiest way to share photos with Divvyshot is to put two iPhones together and shake ...

It's been a number of months (if not longer) since Yahoo showed any love to its Upcoming events service. Since acquiring the service in October 2005, the service has seen just one re-design - and few additional features since. However, in a largely-uncovered announcement earlier in the week, Upcoming now offers a new Jumpstart feature that scans your Pandora, last.fm and iTunes libraries and then ...

Google Calendar for iPhone and Android just got an important update that makes it a lot more viable as your main mobile option for keeping track of events. Specifically, you can now edit events directly from the mobile interface. According to the Official Google Mobile Blog, editing events in mobile calendar was the number one request from users on Google Product Ideas. This move makes so much ...

Doodle.ch is a straightforward, highly-usable tool for scheduling events or making decisions with a group. It generates polls that the members of your group can use to fill in their availability for an event, or even simpler polls that let you make a list of options (What should we serve at dinner? Which movie should we see?) and see which ones work for your group members. We last wrote about ...

Want to invite all your Twitter friends to one event at the click of a button? Twitzu has simplified the process, allowing you to quickly create and publicize events. Fill in the details and it's sent off as a link in a Twitter update, along with a short optional message. Your followers can then RSVP on the Twitzu website. Twitzu has great potential for organizing public events like blog meets ...

Bringing together a group of people can be a pain. Facebook events and groups, eVites, emails, text messages, smoke signals. Mobaganda aims to make the gathering process that much easier. Simplicity seems to be the new h0t on the web, and we like it. As soon as you visit Mobaganda, you'll notice that you don't have to sign up for anything. Say what? Useless you say! I HAVE to put in my ...

Need to schedule a meeting with a group of people spread out across multiple offices in multiple time zones? When is Good offers a simple web-based interface for scheduling meetings or events. The organizer just needs to select a group of times when they are free and enter their email address. When is Good will send you an email with a URL that you can share with other attendees. Each ...

Microsoft is getting into the events business with their latest launch, Windows Live Events. Windows Live Events is a part of the ever-growing Live suite of products that allows users of Windows Live Spaces to both share and plan events and send out invitations. The collaboration also continues through to the Windows Live Calendar where users can manage and plan events as well as set and receive ...

Google has now made it possible to send updates to Calendars using SMS. The request to do so came in on the Google tip lines. People wanted a way in which to send text messages to add events, or a way to find out which events they had coming up. The SMS updates work by sending a text message to 'GVENT' (48368) , with some details about the event, (ie. Starbucks meeting at 2pm). The GVENT will them ...

Keeping track of calendars and appointments might say 'boring' to many users, but Google is aiming to change that stigma with their new Calendar gallery. With nary a 'Management Strategies' event in sight, this collection of subscribe-able calendars (which anyone can add to) is all about fun, travel, sports and the rest of life. Featured calendars include a Netflix DVD release schedule, Orbitz ...

Event planning and management driving you crazy? Setdot could be for you. Setdot is an easy way to manage and plan events online. Registration isn't yet open, but there is a list to join if you are interested in getting in on some hot Beta action. Through Setdot, users can create stylish and professional looking events using different themes. Setdot can be used for a variety of events including ...