Tag: INVITE-A-PALOOZA

Several readers have written in to request that we contact Streamy for our our Invite-a-Palooza series. Well, folks, today's your day. There seems to be a groundswell of attention forming around this new Web site that wants to give us a new way to tackle our overload of RSS feeds, social networks, instant messengers and bookmarks. Since we last wrote about Streamy, the developers have thrown in ...

Eight days into our Invite-a-palooza, we want to give a shout out to all readers who have taken the time to check out all the neat sites we've featured. We're having a great time giving out invitations, and we're not done yet. Freebase, a collective knowledge database, is a terrific twist on information Web sites like Wikipedia. The creators of Freebase describe it as an "almanac" that sorts and ...

Today's Invite-a-palooza featured site just might reunite you with your long-lost love or your best friend from third grade (and if it does, we want to know about it). Spock, a new search service that's still under development, looks like it's shaping up to be a terrific way to search for people. The creators of this site want to be a human phone book of sorts by organizing information on, well, ...

For today's Invite-a-palooza, we're featuring Grand Central, an incredibly cool service that was recently acquired by Google. Grand Central lets you corral all your phone numbers -- home, cell, work, Batphone, whatever you've got -- under one master phone number that comes with features you can manage right at the Website. Screen, record, or block calls; assign rings based on who's calling; ...

Put your thinking caps on, today's Invite-a-palooza featured site is all about brainstorming. Mindquarry GO is a new Web-based collaboration tool that's perfect for groups working on The Next Big Thing. Currently under development, Mindquarry GO is a pretty slick variation of Basecamp and similar services. It has a wiki, file sharing and storing options, and an assortment of tools to help you ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_deals/Download_Squad_s_Invite_a_palooza_Day_2'; If you missed out on yesterday's launch of Invite-a-palooza, don't worry. For the next several days, we'll be handing out private invitations to let you access some really exciting Websites and services that aren't available to the public yet. If you know of a site you'd like us to consider for the ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Invite_a_palooza_Day_1'; Invites are all the rage at the moment, here on the internet. They're such the rage that rarely a day goes by without DownloadSquad bloggers getting a pleading email for an invite to the latest service. Sure, you could use services like InviteShare, which has just been bought by TechCrunch for $25,000, but we understand that folks ...