Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Prohmote

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Prohmote, an event planning tool that built on top of Google App Engine, using the Python and Django Templating is a no-registration required service that allows you to plan your own event. It has a very clean and simple one-page interface, and by simply type in the details of your upcoming event, you can create the event in seconds. However, you’ll need to provide your email address during the event creating process, so that you can keep track of your event, and share it with your members, friends, and family. After you creating the event, the event profile displays the basic info of the event, and the event URL is carried with an unique URL name, comprised of number and character letter.

Prohmote also features privacy option, which allows you to determine the event you created is publicly be seen or in private invite only. Additionally, there is also a RSVP system to allow guests to confirm if they will attend or no, and a mini feed so that you can keep up with the latest update of the event.

To know more about Prohmote, it is an event planning tool that went into beta in March this year. And it seems like Prohmote planned to launch a Pro version that allow enterprises to pay for their paid accounts with Google Checkout in the near future.

Matt

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Matt (aka The Mattinator) is a new Web application that let users to post to multiple Twitter accounts without having to log into each one every time. It was developed by a team of Web developers that based in the U.K. As a long-time reader of some Web design magazines printed in the U.K., my first impression on this site is that it was a Web product from the U.K., albeit that I’m having the difficulty in justify their color choices of the elements in their Web design.

Fundamentally, I didn’t see the logic for one Twitter user to open few Twitter accounts, and she desperately need to get a Web application to help her solve the multiple login problems, but the birth of this site has the positive effect on the other end. The way I look at this site, Matt was more of an experiment to see how quickly they could build an entire new site with a programming language, i.e. Python that they’re not familiar with, and a Python Web framework, i.e. Django within four days. And of course, with the Twitter API as well. This will help convince more programmers in using Web frameworks when they’re looking for fast development, and potential users can test out the product in a shorter time frame.