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. MyPunchbowl, an… Continue Reading
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 Twitter. Meanwhile, chief executive Matt Douglas of… Continue Reading
MyPunchbowl serves up a $2.1 million second round
Punchbowl Software, the parent company of online event planning site MyPunchbowl has raised its second round of funding. The money comes as the site is growing quickly. The site claims its traffic has grown at least 20 percent each month over the past year and… Continue Reading
Kayak drinks MyPunchbowl’s Kool-Aid. Team up for Party Center
Online event planning sites work well to let people know what is going on when and who will be in attendance. However, these sites lack the ability to handle more advanced logistics, such as travel arraignments, until now.
One such event planning site, MyPunchbowl is teaming… Continue Reading
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, and has just raised enough funding (less than… Continue Reading
Roundup: Facebook fast, Attendio, Pricelock, latest Google stuff and more
Here’s the latest tech action:
Pledging Facebook fast — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s remarks to outside developers yesterday that they can build applications for Facebook and keep “all the revenue,” with no revenue share, drew the biggest response from the crowd, and was clearly the most… Continue Reading
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 — via a chat board at any stage of… Continue Reading