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 quality approach.” Unfortunately, when I want to look up, say, pictures from my Microsoft internship in 2003, it’s a mess. Picasa [...]

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 a huge, massive, gaping issue. Anyway, I get the usual “thank you for your email” auto-response. Then, two hours later, I get [...]

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, when people are discussing, say, Microsoft Interview Questions, they’ll jump in the chatroom to discuss problems. This use was expected. [...]

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 worse. The last Seattle Anti-Freeze event was the last straw. A few days before the event, messages we tried to send would silently [...]

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 a blog comment: BRADvite. Without looking at the comment again, I’m going to take a stab in the dark and say his [...]

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 people something for it. Throw a fund raising party so they can meet new people. Put the donating company’s logo on [...]

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 Little Black Book in addition Match.com users. Little Black Book lets Facebook users sign up to see the other Facebook [...]

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 be grammatically correct (eg, “Gayle is looking for people to play soccer on Wednesday nights. Let her know!” instead [...]

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 my options? I’ve evaluated the following: Evite, Socializr, MyPunchBowl, Zoji, Renkoo, Problem Description: I’m looking for an invite application for planning large [...]

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 invitations – every party I throw has an invite on both services. Evite gets more quick responses – that makes some [...]