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Someecards Frees Your Parties From Bland Web Invitations
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | If you have any email address, you’ve received your share of online party invitations with clip-art-level graphics and a general 1998-ish feel. Someecards, a site with actually good e-cards, makes your invitations fun to read and easy to manage. More »
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9:00AM Angus Kidman | Trying to organise a party but don’t think a plain email invitation will quite cut it? MyInvites offers a wide range of designs and automates the process of sending invitations and counting replies. More »
MyInvites Offers Swanky Online Invitations
9:00AM Angus Kidman | Trying to organise a party but don’t think a plain email invitation will quite cut it? MyInvites offers a wide range of designs and automates the process of sending invitations and counting replies. More »
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How to Get In on Early Betas
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Your friend just messaged you about the coolest new webapp, so you head over to sign up and … “We’re in private beta at the moment.” If you strike out with invite-sharing services like Invite Share, the Lifehack.org blog has a few recommendations on getting in without an open invite. One is so straightforward, it’s likely overlooked in most cases: Try to contact someone in the PR department, but anyone with the power to grant invites is good. Then simply offer to review the service if you can get in on the beta now. Have a specific site in mind — if you want to post the review to your blog, be able to mention your readership numbers. Otherwise consider lining up the opportunity to guest post on a larger blog. From my own and friends’ experiences, just writing about a service and its possibilities in comments or forums can end up scoring you an invite. How have you gotten in on a webapp, software program, or other beta list? Share your story in the comments. Eight Tips To Get Into That Great Beta [Lifehack] More »
Invitastic – online invitation manager
9:16AM Sarah Stokely |
Invitastic is a cute little website which lets you create, send and manage invitations to events. It has fairly limited functionality at the moment, but a couple of nice features.
The invitations don’t seem to be customisable – mine came as an email on a yellow background, which wouldn’t have been my choice. I did like the fact that it embeds a link to Google Maps so your guests can look up a map of where your event is being held.
The site tracks RSVPs for you – you can see who’s said yes, no or maybe, and who hasn’t responded. For Mac users, it offers the bonus of being able to download the event to your iCal (for you the host as well as your guests – the invitation comes with the event as an .ics (Ical) file.
The date format on the website is the confusing American style (11/20/2007) but the invitations themselves express dates as “November 22, 2007″ which is much clearer for non-yankees.
I assume they’ll add templates to give some choice about how your invitations look – in the meantime it’s a barebones WYSIWYG email invitation service, no more, no less.
UPDATE: Turns out that you can customise how the invitations appear online – I missed the two translucent arrows on either side of the invitation on the invitation creation screen which let you cycle through a range of different backgrounds. The email version always comes with a simple yellow background to avoid image display problems in email. Thanks to Hillel from Jackson Fish Market (the people behind Invitastic) for getting in touch to clear that up!
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