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SeatGeek: Get Cheap Tickets For Sports & Music Events

abhijeet — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:13:56 +0000

While there are many online ticket price comparison engines, SeatGeek is different. It focuses on helping consumers find the cheapest tickets for sports events, music concerts and more by extracting information from the secondary ticket market and predicting if prices will fall further. Tickets can be searched by team, artist, venue or city. It crawls various secondary market ticket sites and shows the price forecasts. Depending on that you may buy or wait by signing up for an email alert so that you can be alerted when prices are the lowest.

Features:

Find lowest prices for sports and music concert tickets.
Get price forecasts and decide if you should buy or wait.
Subscribe to email alerts to get alerted when the tickets are cheapest.
Search tickets by artist, venue, team or city.

Check out SeatGeek @ www.seatgeek.com (via TechCrunch) (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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IsItaHolidayToday: Check If Today Is A Holiday

kaly — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:55:49 +0000

If you are not sure if it is a holiday today, you can always check Google or Yahoo to find out, or alternatively you could simply go to IsItaHolidayToday.com. It is a website that tracks US holidays, and when visited clearly tells you if the current day is a holiday or not.

Apart from telling you about the current day it also allows users to browse a list of upcoming holidays.

Check out IsItaHolidayToday@ www.isitaholidaytoday.com (via technospot.net)

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EarthCalendar: Calendar of Holidays And Celebrations Worldwide

azim — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:24:44 +0000

EarthCalendar is an online calendar of holidays and celebrations across the globe. You can either click on the ‘Today’ button and view all holidays for current date or alternatively browse holidays by date, country, religion etc. Furthermore, check out international holidays, lunar phases and eclipses for the current and past year.

Features:

Online calendar of holidays and celebrations worldwide.
View holidays by date, by country and religion.
Browse International holidays.
Check lunar phases and eclipses for the current and past year.
Similar websites: When-is.

Check out EarthCalendar @ www.earthcalendar.net

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WhichDateWorks: Online Event Scheduler

azim — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:09:46 +0000

As you might have guessed from the name WhichDateWorks is an online event scheduler that aims to make it easier for groups to pick the best suitable event date for everyone involved.

The site is free and offers optional regsitration. While anyone can use it to pick the event dates, registered users can additionaly save events, use contacts from previous events and keep track of even invitations from others.

Planning an event works in 4 steps:

Name an event (ex. going to a movie)
Enter the name and email of the event organizer and add people involved by entering their emails (manually or import from your address book).
Select the dates that work best for you. You may also narrow down available dates to a specific time period (optional). Ex: April 10 – 17.
Preview invitations before sending them out. Fially, when you are done click on the “Send invitation” link to notify the selected people. (Users may always go back and edit the event details).

Everyone involved can keep track of the event date selections and get notified by email when someone responds. At the end, the organizer picks the best date and sends everyone an email.

Features:

Free and easy event scheduling online.
No sign up required, start planning an event immediately.
Plan as many events as you like.
Similar websites: Diarised and Meet-O-Matic.

Check out WhichDateWorks @ www.whichdateworks.com

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Lunchn: Easily Organize Lunch For Your Group

TehseenBaweja — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:28:58 +0000

We’ve all tried to organize group lunches and often they turn into a disaster. Sometimes you accidentally leave a friend out, other times you can not think of a good place to go to, and many times if its a large group its just really hard to co-ordinate.

Lunchn is your solution to all these problems. The site helps you create groups with your lunch buddies and help you answer that tough question “where to go for lunch?”. Lunchn allows you to find restaurants by zip code and add them to your group and then let all the group members vote on their restaurant of choice. So no more excuses for not arranging a group lunch!

Following are the main features of Lunchn:

Create lunch groups with your friends/family.
Find a restaurant by zip code or by cuisine.
Add restaurants to your group.
Let everybody in your group vote for their choice.
Group members can even vote from their mobile devices.
Find restaurants that other groups like.
Locate restaurants easily on Google Maps.

Visit Lunchn @ Lunchn.com (Contributed by Tehseen Baweja from Ijaar.com)

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When-is: Find out Dates of Religious and Civil Holidays

kaly — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:34:10 +0000

Useful website where you can easily check on various religious and civil holidays. See important Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and American holidays thoughout the year. Simply go to the website, select the calendar and the name of the holiday and get the date for the event.

Features:

Dates of religious and civil holidays around the World.
Includes Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and American holidays.

Check out When-is @ [ www.when-is.com ]

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WhichWeekend : Weekend Planner

kaly — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:45:41 +0000

Planning a weekend get together with office colleagues? Family reuninon? WhichWeekend helps you easily find what is the most suitable weekend for everyone to meet. No need for complex schedulers or calendars. No need for accounts. It’s so simple that even your grandma can use it.

First name your event and select the date range. Then select the weekends that suit you and enter the emails of people you would like to meet up with. WhichWeekend will then forward the event page to each person in the list and ask them to mark their preferred and “can’t make it” weekends. Monitor progress from the event page.

Features

Find out the most convenient weekend for everyone to meet up.
Plan weekends with as many people as you like.
Send reminders to people who has not responded to your whichweekend page.
Choose the date range (alll weekends between any two dates).
No cost. No registration.

Check out WhichWeekend @ [ www.whichweekend.com ]

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