Web site Phonevite sends mass messages and invitations over the phone. It works a lot like other online invitation services like Evite, meaning that people who receive a Phonevite can actually RSVP over the phone, and you can track responses through the Phonevite web site. Just record your announcement or invite, set the recipients, schedule the call, and select options (like RSVP and "Send message back"). Then all you have to do is send the invite. Check out their demo for a better look at the service. It won't be for everyone, but if you think your friends might be more receptive to a Phonevite than an Evite, this could be for you.Thursday, July 26, 2007
Send mass invitations over the phone with Phonevite
From Lifehacker:
Web site Phonevite sends mass messages and invitations over the phone. It works a lot like other online invitation services like Evite, meaning that people who receive a Phonevite can actually RSVP over the phone, and you can track responses through the Phonevite web site. Just record your announcement or invite, set the recipients, schedule the call, and select options (like RSVP and "Send message back"). Then all you have to do is send the invite. Check out their demo for a better look at the service. It won't be for everyone, but if you think your friends might be more receptive to a Phonevite than an Evite, this could be for you.
Web site Phonevite sends mass messages and invitations over the phone. It works a lot like other online invitation services like Evite, meaning that people who receive a Phonevite can actually RSVP over the phone, and you can track responses through the Phonevite web site. Just record your announcement or invite, set the recipients, schedule the call, and select options (like RSVP and "Send message back"). Then all you have to do is send the invite. Check out their demo for a better look at the service. It won't be for everyone, but if you think your friends might be more receptive to a Phonevite than an Evite, this could be for you.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Cool - dinner in NY for $35
Gluttony: Restaurant Week Returns To New York City
Yesterday, July 23, 2007, 3:45:14 PM Carey Greenberg-Berger
If you ever wanted a literal taste of the good life, this is your lucky week. Through the 27th, over 200 New York restaurants are throwing open their doors to New Yorkers on a budget. Participating restaurants offer a three-course prix fixe menu; $24.07 buys you lunch, while dinner costs $35.00. Some of the city's top restaurants deign to welcome the relatively impoverished, including Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill, Le Cirque, and Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto's Nobu. You can try to snag a reservation through OpenTable, but your best bet is to call restaurants directly. Don't fret if traveling to New York is too much to sate your gluttony: Boston's Restaurant Week starts on August 5th, with Washington's starting the day after.
Yesterday, July 23, 2007, 3:45:14 PM Carey Greenberg-Berger
If you ever wanted a literal taste of the good life, this is your lucky week. Through the 27th, over 200 New York restaurants are throwing open their doors to New Yorkers on a budget. Participating restaurants offer a three-course prix fixe menu; $24.07 buys you lunch, while dinner costs $35.00. Some of the city's top restaurants deign to welcome the relatively impoverished, including Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill, Le Cirque, and Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto's Nobu. You can try to snag a reservation through OpenTable, but your best bet is to call restaurants directly. Don't fret if traveling to New York is too much to sate your gluttony: Boston's Restaurant Week starts on August 5th, with Washington's starting the day after.
Monday, July 23, 2007
Saturday, July 21, 2007
America's richest in today's dollars
This is a neat list of the richest people in American history based on today's dollards.
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/business/20070715_GILDED_GRAPHIC.html#
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/business/20070715_GILDED_GRAPHIC.html#
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Monday, July 2, 2007
Geneology Website - Great Web 2.0 Example
www.geni.com
This is an extremely well-done website for geneology. I started my family tree here. The site is very easy to use. A recent article in Techcrunch gave these statistics:
We just got word that genealogy site Geni will be announcing that they’ve hit their 5 millionth profile, just five months after launching the service. This is up from 2 million in March. You can view the press release here.
This is not the number of registered users (Geni had 100,000 when reporting 2 million profiles), but rather the number of people put into Geni family trees. A user, after adding themselves, begins to add other people. If you include an email, that user is notified of the existence of the tree and can choose to sign up or not. Every non-deceased person who’s added, therefore, is a potential Geni user. That single viral component to the service will ensure orders of magnitude greater growth compared to established competitors like ancestry.com.
Geni has raised a total of $11.5 million in capital - the last round was $10 million on a $100 million valuation. They continue to add features that have proven to be successful at creating growth at Facebook and other social networks, suggesting that valuation may not be as crazy as it seems at first blush.
This is an extremely well-done website for geneology. I started my family tree here. The site is very easy to use. A recent article in Techcrunch gave these statistics:
We just got word that genealogy site Geni will be announcing that they’ve hit their 5 millionth profile, just five months after launching the service. This is up from 2 million in March. You can view the press release here.
This is not the number of registered users (Geni had 100,000 when reporting 2 million profiles), but rather the number of people put into Geni family trees. A user, after adding themselves, begins to add other people. If you include an email, that user is notified of the existence of the tree and can choose to sign up or not. Every non-deceased person who’s added, therefore, is a potential Geni user. That single viral component to the service will ensure orders of magnitude greater growth compared to established competitors like ancestry.com.
Geni has raised a total of $11.5 million in capital - the last round was $10 million on a $100 million valuation. They continue to add features that have proven to be successful at creating growth at Facebook and other social networks, suggesting that valuation may not be as crazy as it seems at first blush.
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