PictureMash: Smart Sorting for All Your Pics

Posted on Friday, April 10th, 2009

While I can’t exactly call myself an avid photographer – as I have zero skill in this art form – I do have a lot of photo albums. I call it the “quantity over [...]

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How Not To Do Customer Support

Posted on Thursday, December 11th, 2008

I recently sent in a support ticket to evite about a pretty huge issue with their site. I can’t say what it is – yet – but it’s not a little bug. It’s [...]

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Talkinator & The Value of Feedback

Posted on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

I’ve been using Talkinator, an embeddable chat program for websites, for a few months now.
I realize I might be the only post-1995 site to want a chatroom, but it’s actually rather useful. For example, [...]

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Bye-Bye Evite – Maybe

Posted on Monday, September 22nd, 2008

It’s been a good run. We’ve have laughed, we’ve cried, we’ve… ok, mostly just cried. What’s up with evite? I swear, the only thing that the evite does is make the service [...]

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BRADvite – Another Evite Alternative

Posted on Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Several months ago, I evaluated a number of evite alternatives out there. It’s a crowded space, and lots of new sites have popped up since. Here’s a new one that contacted me via [...]

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StickKing to Commitments

Posted on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

A long time believer in the self-interested nature of mankind, I appreciate a person, company or organization which is able to align motivations in productive ways. Want to raise money for your team? Give [...]

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Little Black Book and a Dark Little Secret

Posted on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Rumor has it that Match.com is coming out with a facebook app called “Little Black Book”. Details on it are a tad fuzzy, but it sounds like it will show other users who have installed [...]

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Gayle is… not agreeing with Facebook removing “is”

Posted on Thursday, December 13th, 2007

I woke up this morning, checked Facebook, and discovered that Facebook had removed ‘is’ from status messages.
Previously, because all status messages were preceded by “is”, users have been forced to either reword their phrases to [...]

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Report Card on Evite and Its Alternatives

Posted on Sunday, October 21st, 2007

When it comes to planning large events (1000+ people invited, 200+ people attending), Evite just doesn’t cut it. Heck, it’s never great, but it really suffers on large, paid events. So, what are [...]

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Evite vs Facebook Invites

Posted on Friday, October 19th, 2007

Over the past few months, I’ve noticed more and more people using other services for invitations – not necessarily instead of, but rather in addition to. I, myself, use both evite and facebook for [...]

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