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An Interview with Ben Vinegar

Thursday, August 6th, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch

We sat down with Ben Vinegar, suave businessman and product developer for Guestlist, to talk about their new event management application.

Refresh Events: Hi Ben, thanks for sitting down with us. Tell us a bit more about Guestlist.

Ben Vinegar: Thanks for having us. Basically, Guestlist is a new event registration service that focuses on usability and design, and not a phonebook-sized feature list. It lets you publish beautiful looking event pages, sell tickets online, and manage your attendees with ease.

RE: Why did you decide to create this?

BV: Back in 2008 we were a bunch of web developers itching to solve a problem, and event registration just kind of intrigued us. We aren’t event organizers ourselves, but as technically-minded folk in Toronto, we sure do attend a lot of them, and it became clear that existing products for managing events could stand to be simplified.

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An Interview with the hohoTO Team

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch

Yesterday afternoon, we had the pleasure of sitting down with Alexa Clark, COO of Plethora Press and Corey Reid, Chief Cat Herder at Freshbooks to talk about hohoTO, the upcoming fundraiser for the Daily Bread Food Bank.

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HootSuite 2.0 Launch – Social Media Fail?

Thursday, July 30th, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch

Earlier today, HootSuite launched the new version of their site.

However, early access to the public beta could only be granted if you authorized the sending out of a tweet, which resulted in the Twittersphere looking something like this:

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HootSuite 2.0: A Walkthrough (Part 1)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch

HootSuite 2.0 is out and it’s boasting a TON of great features. Let’s take a look at what’s new:

The New HootSuite UI

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Event Fatigue in Toronto

Thursday, July 30th, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch

Yesterday afternoon, I had the pleasure of Saul Colt’s company over lunch, and we discussed various ways to monetize business and create a community around content. The conversation drifted towards the number of events that are being curated in the city of Toronto. I’d like to talk about how the conversation went and some thoughts that I have on this topic.

Before I go any further, I’d like to give credit to Saul Colt, as it was his insights that formulated the basis for this post.

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