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RiotVine.com – Find cool events with your friends

Charles — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:33:41 +0000

RiotVine is a great location to search for events happening in your city. Currently RiotVine supports Boston, Los Angeles, and New York.

With the ability to search for events based on both date and location we see RiotVine providing a very useful tool to a currently unserved niche.

What it does in their own words:
RiotVine makes it easy to discover cool events around town.

How it beats the competition:
We allow you to share events with your friends in a single click.

Site: http://riotvine.com

RunMyErrand – an online community of Errand Senders and Errand Runners joining together to get things done

Charles — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:26:58 +0000

Looking for someone to pick up your dry cleaning, make a grocery or IKEA run, or tackle other errands for you and don’t mind paying a few bucks extra for the convenience? Web service RunMyErrand might be worth a look.

To get started, you can import your Facebook data via Facebook Connect. Once done, you just add the details of your errand, when you need it done, where it should be done, and who should run the errand. Once posted, a RunMyErrand runner will pick up the task and execute it. The company does background checks on its runners and allows you to access those checks for free.

Whether it saves times depends on your discipline in using the service. It’s also only available in Boston at the moment, although with the backing of not only Facebook, but ZipCar, it’ll be in 14 major cities relatively soon.

[via Mashable]

Site: http://runmyerrand.com/

Labortopia – Service Paradise

Charles — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:49:55 +0000

What it does:
Labortopia is an easy to use online tool for service seekers and providers to find one another locally

How it beats the competition:
We make it easy for people to find local providers.

URL: http://labortopia.com