What we’re about is _making plans_ with your friends. Events are just a background for you to have a good time with your friends, and before you can do that you need a way to plan your outing. Planypus makes it dead easy because we realize planning is about conversations, and that means everyone gets a say. When one person has to decide everything, planning is a pain in the ass. When you can say ‘lets go to dinner’ and have the rest of your friends fill in the details, and then get a message on your phone saying where to be…now that’s easy. And that’s Planypus..check us out! http://planyp.us

It just launched today with over 50,000 events

Since I was the first one to “discover” Socializr (see Socializr - Friendster 2.0?) I figured I should report it is now out with a “gamma” release.  I guess we shouldn’t read too much into what gamma means, since Auren Hoffman recen…

Does anyone work for IAC? I’d love to do some acquisition / integration consulting for them. They have such a vast network of websites just asking for a social network. They could create the next MySpace/Friendster potentially — imagine getting users to all mingle amongst Ticketmaster, Match.com, Ask.com, Citysearch, Evite, and the rest of their network. They could shut Socializr down before it even launches, if Evite added some social networking features. And/or if Evite integrated the Facebook API; and users with Friendster/MySpace/blogs could add a flash widget that displays all their public Evite events they are attending.

Overall, Evite does need to step up their game if they are going to compete with the next gen of event websites.

If I were MySpace, I might look at an acquisition of Renkoo or Skobee.

BTW, when will Friendster be suing MySpace over their patent? Friendster raised $10mm more a couple months ago — my thought was that was for the legal costs of a case; anyone heard anything?

Thanks!

Much better UI, already launched, already bought by yahoo

Scobleizer - Socializr - i mean come on guys…

cheers
scott

i manage my freinds the old fashion way …i talk to them

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Susan a probably referred to an earlier story from Om Malik:
http://software.gigaom.com/200.....ix-months/

According to him, the owners of Skobee pretty much gave up on it:

“Skobee — one of the much-hyped young companies in this space, one that had been named “best in show” at a web 2.0 conference five months ago — has essentially gone into remission.

After hearing tips about the three founders actively seeking jobs, we began to notice other telling signs: the company blog had been taken down; the Alexa charts had taken a nosedive. It turns out that after multiple failed acquisition talks, the founders have had to reduce Skobee to a side project and have taken jobs elsewhere. The company had raised a small angel round but hadn’t managed to secure VC funding.”

If they implement FOAF profile upload, then why not give it a spin? I’ll take my Tribe profile and boom - I’m rockin.

As for Socialzzzzzzrrrrrr, maybe they’re great, maybe they suck, but I, for one, believe that very small implementation/philosophy details can be the difference between make or break. And I certainly don’t believe that social networks and/or organizers have proven themselves yet, to be more trouble than they’re worth, anyways. If someone’s got the guts to say, “I’ve got a better way”, then more power to them. Most of those sites suck. I *hope* someone’s got a better way.

After a social network/website/anything fails, everyone is quick to point out the ‘obvious reasons’ why it failed - it’s Monday morning quarterbacking. What was ‘conspiracy theory’ 20 years ago is ‘obvious’ today. I say let Socccciiiiiilz get out the door before we cap them.

Too much of our analysis, here, seems to hark on ‘coolness’ or # of Web 2.0 features implemented, but in reality, that’s only part of the story - as evidenced by MySpace. Sure, now they’re caught up a bit, but it wasn’t always that way. They had one hook - a music widget - and a culture of chaos that nobody else could or would match. I wish I knew the secret formula to a successful website/service, but I know it’s not all about ‘tech specs’ and ‘capabilities’ - sometimes it’s the warm fuzzy you get - like when visiting Cute Overload, only not so over the top.

Just the other day I started running AdBrite ads on my site. I went through their home page (http://www.adbrite.com/) and thought, “primitive”, but I also thought, “cool”. What was cool about it? I dunno. It was a bit hokey. A bit amateur. It was *nothing* like many of the Web 2.0 sites that I love to look at (DropSend, Wufoo, etc.). So I ripped most of my advertising from Google AdSense and dropped in on AdBrite. Then I discovered they got this wicked interstitial ad thing that I’ve never seen before. What is it about AdBrite that says, “Google says they’re not evil, and you don’t really believe them, but you’d like to, but we’re not gonna talk down to you like that - we’re here to make a buck, drink some brews, deliver a good product, and get the most out of this life.”? Was it Web 2.0 features? No. Do all of their features and more exist in other products/services and have for years? Probably (except for that interstitial - not so sure about that one). There was something else there.

Odd about AdBrite (fd: i was in some type of employment almost-discussion with them the other day, but fell through), the 2nd page you link to above has this fool on it (http://www.socializr.com/user/191079828).

Another site I caught the other day that blew me away with its quirkiness - http://www.paperbackswap.com/ . We talk about the BookMooches of the world cause they’re new and whatever - but paperbackswap is trading thousands of books. How did they do it? No idea, but it’s not crazy ‘advanced features’.

Back to the original point, if anything helps take down MySpace, it’ll be the openness/interconnectedness of other communities. Wonder where the Justice Department-friendly People Aggregator is at these days? I would have thought we’d have seen more folks in that space.