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| Nov 11, 2010 | Event startup Punchbowl acquires rival Socializr | If you’re throwing a party, there are a ton of different services for sending online invites — probably more than can survive over the long-term. But in a few months there will be one less, because Punchbowl just announced that it’s purchas... |
| Oct 4, 2010 | Punchbowl Debuts Digital Invitation Studio (Invites) | Fresh off a rebranding, Punchbowl, a start to finish party planning site, is unveiling its Digital Invitation Studio to the public today. The new platform helps you create online invites that look and feel like you created customized statio... |
| Sep 14, 2010 | Online Party Planning Site MyPunchbowl Rebrands As Punchbowl; Passes 1M Users | MyPunchbowl, a start to finish party planning site, has reached an important milestone today: the startup now has one million registered users using its online invitation and party preparation services. In conjunction with the announcement,... |
| Aug 4, 2010 | Evite Introduces Redesign, Tries Not To Suck, Fails | “Evite sucks” is not a revolutionary opinion. The online invitation company has been the subject of substantial vitriol for how much their site design feels like it’s from 1998, when they launched. It would be impossible not to respond to t... |
| Jun 3, 2010 | MyPunchbowl Makes Online Invitations Look Like Fine Stationery | While the design of online invitations has evolved since Evite first launched nearly ten years ago, these invitations still don’t capture the same quality as fine stationery. Until now. MyPunchbowl, a start to finish party planning site, is... |
| Apr 27, 2010 | MyPunchbowl Signs Multi-Million Dollar Licensing Deal With Oriental Trading Company | The event planning business is a competitive space, with a number of companies and startups competing for a piece of a very lucrative pie. All-in-one party planning platform MyPunchbowl is opening up a new revenue stream today by licensing ... |
| Nov 16, 2009 | Event Planning Platform MyPunchbowl Acquires I'm In For Local Vendor Listings | Evite competitor and event planning platform MyPunchbowl is acquiring I’m In, a site for
group travel and local trip ideas. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
MyPunchbowl allows users to create beautiful online invitations... |
| Oct 12, 2009 | Someecards Launches Invites For Parties I Would Actually Want To Go To | Every so often I think to myself, “what ever happened to Evite?” Then I get an email invitation and realize that it’s still alive. While some of the early adopters and tech elitists may have switched to services like MyPunchbowl, Socializr,... |
| Sep 16, 2009 | Socializr Lays Off Staff, On DeadPool Watch | Socializr, the online event organization tool that first went into private beta in 2006, isn’t in good shape.
We’ve heard from a couple of sources that Socializr has laid off most or all of the staff and that the site is running on autopilo... |
| Jul 30, 2009 | Lolligift, a Site For Collecting Money for Office Pools | Lolligift solves a pressing problem in most offices. You know how when Maurice in accounting or Lydia on the dev team breaks a hip or has a birthday? And how Sarah in HR goes around collecting cash for a present for them? And how you know y... |
| May 20, 2009 | Socializr integrates Twitter as alternative to Facebook events | Socializr, the events-oriented social network founded by Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, doesn’t get as much play as Evite and Facebook Events. But as VentureBeat editor Matt Marshall recently wrote, Socializr offers a more organized ap... |
| May 12, 2009 | Haven't Tried It Yet, But FutureFeed Tells Me I'm Going To Love It | Real Time is the new black. Everyone’s doing it, or wants to be doing it. Even Google says it’s one of the biggest challenges in search today (making sense of all that real time data).
So it isn’t surprising that people are making fun of it... |
| May 7, 2009 | Historical Perspective: At Least This Time Around We Don't Have Incubators For Incubators | Silicon Valley and the Internet community in general gets a lot of criticism and jeering over some of the absurd ideas that turn into venture funded startups. People make fun of the business plans (or lack of business in the plans), the vow... |
| Apr 15, 2009 | Tired of the events mess on Facebook? Try Socializr | Socializr, a service that lets you organize your events online, has just released a cool new set of features that let you more easily see what events your friends are going to, and then track and manage the photos of these events.
Called “S... |
| Apr 15, 2009 | Socializr 'Event Connect' Looks To Be Your Comprehensive Social Calendar | Socializr, an Evite competitor that allows users to coordinate party planning and invitations, is launching a new product today called ‘Event Connect’ that allows users to aggregate and respond to all of their events from sites like Faceboo... |
| Mar 23, 2009 | MyPunchbowl revamps birthday reminders | Keeping track of birthdays online is a drag. Sure, every social networking site now has a system for reminders. But, unless you have the same group of friends on every site, a lot of those reminders end up spread out across the web. MyPunch... |
| Jan 9, 2009 | MyPunchbowl saw record traffic as Evite failed | On New Year’s Eve, large swaths of popular event site Evite went down, leaving folks wandering the streets, unable to access their party information. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth, including many users on micro-blogging site ... |
| Dec 31, 2008 | Evite fails on the year’s biggest party night | Update: It’s past 9pm Pacific time, meaning that it’s now New Year’s Day on the East Coast … and Evite is still down. I think it’s safe to say that this isn’t planned maintenance, or if it is, it went horribly awry.
No one cool uses Evite a... |
| Nov 11, 2008 | MadeIT Can't Make It In Invites, Switches To Online Ticketing | MadeIT, a San Francisco-based startup we profiled over a year ago, is leaving the crowded space of event planning and invitation applications and entering the equally-crowded space of online ticketing service providers.
CEO Stephen Weir tol... |
| Oct 29, 2008 | Martha smiles on event manager Pingg, leads $2.8M round | Martha Stewart, cultural icon of event planning that she is, has given Pingg — maker of software for invitation and event management — her seal of approval, and contributed to a $2.8 million first round of funding via her media network Mart... |
| Oct 14, 2008 | Company Review: MyPunchBowl.com | Plan your Thanksgiving holiday dinner online
A party is always fun, even though making plans for one can be exhausting. Yet putting it all together doesn't need to be an arduous task if you have the tools to make it more efficient. Org... |
| Jul 1, 2008 | Y Combinator's Anyvite Takes On Evite, Keeps Things Simple | It’s no secret that Evite sucks. It’s cluttered, it unnecessarily withholds information from email messages in order to drive page hits, and it looks like it hasn’t seen a facelift in about a decade.
The latest company to take on the much-m... |
| May 27, 2008 | Mobaganda: A Dead-Simple Invite Site Built On Google's App Engine | If you like your invite apps dead-simple, check out Mobaganda. You don’t even have to log in. Just click on start, add the name, date & time, and location, and create an event. The site, which is built on the Google App Engine, generate... |
| Feb 12, 2008 | Demand Media/Vator Challenge top 25 leaderboard | We've got one more month to go before the judges of the Demand Media/Vator Challenge select a winning vertical social network or community to fly down and meet with the Demand Media mergers and acquisitions team, including Caith Chapma... |
| Oct 28, 2007 | IMThere Joins MadeIt As The Most Recent Attempts To Crack The Event Nut | Any event based site is basically a social network – they are designed to allow interaction among friends to coordinate virtual or real world activities. The venerable Evite is still the king of online event coordination. None of the recent... |
| Oct 2, 2007 | MyPunchbowl lands seed funding for online invitations | Although Evite makes it simple enough to invite some friends to an event, MyPunchbowl thinks it’s found a better way.
Since we last reported on MyPunchbowl in January, the company has been tweaking its workflow-based event planning tools, a... |
| Sep 11, 2007 | Socializr, the online event company, raises $1.5M | Updated
Socializr, the San Francisco start-up that lets you share information about parties and other events online, has raised $1.5 million in a second round of financing.
The backer is Rembrandt Venture Partners, a Menlo Park, Calif. vent... |
| Aug 13, 2007 | Latest VentureBeat job board listings | Check out the latest jobs on VentureBeat:
They include openings for controller at 4INFO, the San Mateo, Calif. mobile search company, for “kick-ass” coders at Socializr, the San Francisco online event/invitation company, and for a Django We... |
| May 17, 2007 | Roundup: E-fight, Voki avatars, young founders, Kokua, Imeem and more | Latest action:
Evite vs. Socializr continued — The bad blood between Jonathan Abrams, founder of Friendster and now founder of online event service Socializr, and the lawyers at Evite, is worse than we realized. The bitterness started durin... |
| May 10, 2007 | Roundup: Mingling at Sequoia, Kevin Rose’s latest, NataliePortman.TV and more | The latest action:
Sequoia keeps it in the family –The Indian arm of high-powered venture capital firm Sequoia Capital recently led a $7m round for Minglebox, an Indian social network. Minglebox is led by Kavita Iyer, the wife of one of the... |
| Apr 30, 2007 | Evite threatens to sue Socializr for copyright infringement | Ticketmaster, owner of the popular invitation service Evite, has threatened to sue Socializr for copyright infringement, saying the company’s service looks strikingly and confusingly similar to Evite’s.
In a letter sent April 3, Ticketmaste... |
| Mar 16, 2007 | Abrams’ event site, Socializr, launches on $770,000 | See our story here.
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| Mar 16, 2007 | Socializr, for planning events online | Socializr, a new San Francisco-based company that wants to help you plan events online, opens to the public today.
It is owned by Jonathan Abrams, the founder of the early social networking site, Friendster. When Friendster emerged four yea... |
| Feb 6, 2007 | Next Generation of Online Invitation Sites | Written by Jay Fortner and edited by Richard MacManus
After the Super Bowl and the defeat of my team the Chicago Bears, I checked my inbox
to see how many Evite invitations I’d received for
Super Bowl parties. Evite has been around for a re... |
| Jan 15, 2007 | Mypunchbowl joins growing list of Evite rivals | Evite has long been the 800-pound gorilla in the online invitation area.
MyPunchbowl is the latest company trying to make a better version of Evite, by introducing better pre-party planning. It adds modern Web features for collaboration — v... |
| Dec 15, 2006 | Renkoo launches event service — in time to schedule holiday cocktails | Renkoo, a Redwood City start-up that has worked in secrecy for a year on a more interactive version of Evite‘s event service, has launched.
Evite is the big player in this industry. Renkoo pitches itself as “Evite done right,” seeking to in... |
| Sep 19, 2006 | Why I hate Evite | (Editor’s note: This one resonated with us. And since Auren’s pieces so far have been well liked, we’re going with it. Take note that Auren is an investor in new Evite competitor, Socializr.)
Like some of you, I get a lot of Evites. In fact... |
| Sep 13, 2006 | Abrams’ Socializr, an event site, launches; will it match Renkoo, others? | Jonathan Abrams, the founder of path-breaking social networking company Friendster, has launched a test version of his new site, Socializr.
The site says it is “a free web service for sharing event and party information with your friends. U... |
| Sep 13, 2006 | Socializr in Private Beta, zzzzzzzz | Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams is getting ready to launch his new startup, Socializr. It looks like it’ll be a social network/event organizing site…You can go through a “gamma” application process on the home page, or just read Steve Po... |
| Aug 8, 2006 | Web 2.0: The 24 Minute Documentary | A couple of weeks ago Michael Arrington got together with a number of startup CEOs and executives to video a discussion about Web 2.0. Participating in the discussion were Aaron Cohen (Bolt), Scott Milener and Steven Lurie (Browster), Keith... |
| Apr 28, 2006 | Renkoo "Beeta" Launches | Palo Alto based Renkoo, which just raised $3 million in venture financing, is opening its doors this morning to beta testers. They’ll immediately let in the first few hundred requests and then trickle in new users after that (if you don’t s... |
| Apr 14, 2006 | Catchup Friday — Abrams to launch Socializr; Meetup, Zoom, Zixxo & more | Here are the latest Silicon Valley tidbits that fell between the cracks this week. Happy Easter weekend!
Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams to launch Socializr? Abrams, the early developer of the social networking concept, and brain behind ... |