ReminderGuru is a free to use web service that reminds you of events. You start using the site by creating an account. To verify your email address, the password of your account is emailed to you. Using the password, you can log in and begin creating a reminder. You can add a reminder title along with a date. You can also specify the exact time for the reminder. You can select the frequency of the reminder; you can select the reminder to be a one-time deal or you can have it recur weekly, monthly, or yearly.

Next you type in your email address and phone number and select how you would like the reminder to be send: through email, text message, or call. After typing a security code you can finalize your reminder. The reminders you set can be managed and deleted by viewing their list.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you set reminders.
• Sends reminders through email, text messages, and call.
• Lets you describe reminder and set specific time for it.
• Lets you set frequency of reminder.

Check out ReminderGuru @ http://reminderguru.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

One of the cool things about this tool is that it has nice social integration features and there’s a live event coverage page that lets you do live tweets and also track what others are tweeting. The tool comes free for free events and charges 1.5% per transaction and 49 cents per visitor for paid events.

Features

• Full-fledged event management service.
• Free for events with free tickets only.
• Send personalized e-tickets and emails.
• Similar tools: Moredays and Kuandoo.

Check out DoAttend @ www.doattend.com (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

Hangout.io is a simple website that allows users to create ‘events’ and invite people to them. Such a system ensures that only private friends, or anyone who is sent an invite, are invited.

Using the service is very simple and easy. All a user has to do is sign up for Hangout.io which takes around 4-5 seconds. Once done, all you have to do is create a Hangout from the dashboard, where you can enter the details of the event – number of people, time, date, location, optional message, etc.

As you add the guest list, the invites are automatically sent to their inbox. The email simply shows them the time, date and place where the event is occurring and custom message, if any.

Features

• Free invitaton service.
• User-friendly website, very easy to use.
• Allows only private friends to be invited.
• Upto 10 people can be added to an event.

Check out Hangout @ http://hangout.io (By Hammad From TechnicallyDigital)

You can add a list of performers/speakers and even add a list of program items along with the scheduled time, meeting place and more info. Once all the info is up, publish your app and promote the unique URL with a QR code or spread it through social networks. All these services are free but for a small monthly fees you can also brand your even app and get analytics.

Features:

• Create event guides online.
• Publish schedule, maps and list of performers.
• Spread word through QR code or social networks.

Visit Twoppy @ www.twoppy.com

Tentative.ly is a web service that helps you bookmarks events right from their webpages. After you create an account with the service by visiting its homepage, you can start making use of its helpful bookmarklet. Whenever you are on an online event’s webpage, click on the bookmarklet and a bar on top will drop down with fields corresponding to Name, Venue, Address, and Date.

You can click on a field in the bar and highlight the corresponding text on the webpage to have it automatically copied in the field. You can make manual edits too. Clicking on the Save button in the bar bookmarks the events in your Tentative.ly list. When an event is about to come up, you are sent an email reminder.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you easily bookmark events through online event pages.
• Provides a bookmarklet to speed up the process.
• Maintains a list of your upcoming events.
• Sends email reminders.

Check out Tentative.ly @ https://www.tentative.ly (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

You can either register with them or log in with your Facebook account. The tool is easy to use (just create and share the widgets) and can contribute significantly in the smooth organization of social events.

Features

• Plan social events easily.
• Interact with guests beforehand to discuss things.
• Plan drinks, food and transportation.
• Determine the budget for the party.

Check out Kuandoo @ www.kuandoo.com/index.php (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

After you sign up for an account, you can form new plans and add different tasks to them. These plans can be shared with friends by inviting them as a participant in the plan via email. When they visit the plan they can choose to complete the tasks that are unassigned as of that moment. This way you can easily organize group activities and let participants select their own tasks.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you create shareable task list online and share with friends.
• Plans can have individual tasks.
• Participants in the plan can choose their own tasks.
• Similar tools: ForceDo, Thoughtboxes, DailyTodo and TeuxDeux.
• Also read related article: 5 Useful To-Do List Apps For The iPhone.

Check out TODOFeed @ www.todofeed.com (by MOin from Urban Savior)

SignUpGenius is a free to use website that lets you publish events online. The site provides users with various useful features such as support for rich text formatting while typing the description of your event.

You can also choose from a variety of templates provided for different kinds of events. These templates give your event’s page an appealing look.

In addition to supporting templates and special formatting, SignUpGenius lets you appoint positions for an event. For example, at a fundraising event you could ask for volunteers, managers, people who bring food, etc. Friends who visit your event’s SignUpGenius page will be able to view these positions and optionally sign up for them. Setting such positions and letting friends choose their role is a great help while planning something like this.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you create online events.
• Supports special text formatting.
• Offers various templates categorized by type of event.
• Lets you indicate required positions for the event.
• Lets people signup for the event positions they are interested in.
• Similar tools: MyJobChart, ChoreBuster, DoStuffForMoney and RunMyErrand.

Check out SignUpGenius @ www.signupgenius.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

F.Y.I Fly is a simple to use web service that lists a variety of events being held in nearby areas. After you connect your Facebook account with F.Y.I Fly, you can start by specifying your state and city and then search for the type of events you are interested in. When you find an interesting event you can indicate your attendance or view others who are attending the event.

F.Y.I Fly lets you create your own events as well. After entering all the necessary details such as the title of the event, whether or not the event is free, the category of the event, and so on, you can get embeddable code for a calendar that has your events marked. This calendar currently comes in 4 colors and will be a nice addition to your blog or website.

Your created event also has its very own F.Y.I Fly page where visitors can read the event’s details and view the event’s location on a map.

The event pages include buttons for sharing the event on Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. Of course you can always directly share the event page’s URL wherever you want.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you find interesting events nearby.
• Lets you create your own events.
• Provides embeddable calendar marking your events.
• Shows event locations on a map.
• Similar tools: Zvents, ConferenceHound and Yahoo Upcoming.

Check out F.Y.I Fly @ www.fyifly.com/free-event-calendar (via TheNextWeb) (by MOin from ThumbPress)

As soon as everyone have voted for the event and selected a suitable time for them, you choose the most voted event and time that fits everybody. Then you make the final decision and everyone is notified.

You can watch the Fasterplan demo video below.

Features:

• Plan group events with multiple participants ( friends, colleagues etc).
• All the participants are notified by email automatically on every change to the event.
• Every participant can make changes to the event – suggest/vote for event, select the time.
• Similar tools: yaM, MeetMe, Congregar, MeetWithMe, Doodle, PermaTime, NeedtoMeet, MeetWithAgenda and TimeBridge.

Check out Fasterplan @ www.fasterplan.com