Socializr

Socializr is a web based service that provides a wide variety of exciting and interactive tools and applications to help people plan parties and events. It also lets them share party information with their peers. The motto of the site is: "Don't be boring" and its services ensure that neither its users nor their parties are boring but turn out to be great fun. The users can send out personalized online invites and share details about dinner or lunch parties, hang-outs with friends, marriage parties or any other type of event. It is a social networking as well as an event organizing site. Socializr lets its users save a lot of money that they would otherwise spend on getting paper invites made and then mailing them. The users can choose from a large collection of invites and customize them and can even make them more attractive by incorporating music and video. It combines users' information from their profiles on other social networking sites like MySpace and Friendster, their blog posts and photos and videos from Flickr or Youtube into their profile on Socializr. It also lets its users view the events calendar of their friends. Moreover, users can promote the event organized by them on all their other sites through Socializr. It highlights special occasions, popular events, popular designs and popular organizations. True to its name, it makes sure that its users keep on socializing and enjoying great parties and events. Socializr is a web 3.1 Company which was founded by Jonathan Abrams, who is a junior programmer and also the founder of Friendster, in March 2007. It is a start-up venture, run by a young team of six members and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. They get their funding from venture capital and a few individual investors. It has not been a very long time since it has been launched but it is fast becoming the preferred choice of party lovers because of its features and options. Socializr is a relatively new addition to the segment catering to party lovers. Though it stands out from the crowd because of its interesting features like adding music and video to invites, linking of various online profiles into one, and unbelievable ease-of-use, but still it faces stiff competition from other players in the online event planning space. It does the same work but with more smartness and simplicity. Socializr has a simple yet elegant look. Information has been neatly categorized under different headings. Though with all the content, it looks slightly busy. Pages can be navigated easily and quickly. White and grayish blue colors have been used in the background upon which invites and cards play out nicely. The entire site has a soothing look. Creating events and sending out invites requires signing up. Signing up lets users create their profiles, add friends, view messages and access their as well as their friend's address books. The registration process is quite lengthy. It is divided into several steps. The first step requires such information as one's first name, last name, email address, password, gender, date of birth and zip code. It allows users to choose from three kinds of membership offers- standard (free), substandard (free) and superior. Second step asks users to provide their all other email addresses so that they can receive all party invites at one place. One can also upload or import his/ her photo and email addresses of friends. Next, it allows adding email addresses of the people one wishes to send friend requests to. Finally after such a long procedure one arrives at his/ her personalized home page. All great services that Socializr provides is available free of charge. The site has an advertisement based revenue model. They do not sell or spam their users' email addresses. Socializr can be useful for all those who love to socialize and host parties. It lets one organize parties for all occasions like birthdays, get togethers, anniversaries etc. Therefore, people of all ages and different backgrounds can host their parties with ease and convenience.