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Definition: EVITE

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. To shun.[Websters]
2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: eviting, evited, evites, eviter, eviters, evitingly and evitedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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"Evite" is a common misspelling or typo for: Levite.

Date "Evite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)

Specialty Definition: EVITE

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Verb] To shun. [Not used.]. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Wikipedic Evite is a web site that allows event hosts to send invitations to guests via the Internet. The site is free as of August 2005. A host picks an invitation style, names his party (e.g. �Barbecue�, �Vegas Vacation�, �Eternal Summertime of the Colada-Soaked Mind�), enters e-mail addresses of guests or imports an address book from an e-mail program and writes an invitation. The site then sends the invitations and serves as an RSVP service, placing guests into four categories � �Attending�, �Maybe�, �Not Attending� or �Not Yet Replied� � categories which can be renamed when the host is creating the invitation. An option allows the host to send an automatic reminder e-mail to invited guests in the days prior to the event. Hosts can determine through the web site whether a guest has viewed the invitation or not. Evites aren�t restricted to parties and similar gatherings; users can send invitations to myriad events (snowboard trip, java reunion, turkey trot). Guests in the early years of the service were often hesitant to select a category offered in the invitation, despite the simplicity of mouse click RSVP. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Extended Definition: EVITE

Evite

Evite.com Logo
Evite.com Logo

Evite is a social-planning website for creating, sending, and managing online invitations.

Evite was launched in 1998. The website is a free, advertisement-supported service. It is owned by conglomerate IAC/InterActiveCorp.

Usage

An event organizer creates an online invitation through the website via a simple interface. This online invitation is colloquially referred to as "an Evite". The host enters e-mail addresses of prospective guests and Evite sends e-mails to the guests. Each guest is in one of four categories: "Attending", "Not Attending", "Maybe", and "Not yet replied". Guests move themselves from the "Not yet replied" category to one of the three "replied" categories and can write additional comments.

Features

Reminders

  • Hosts may send an automatic reminder e-mail in the days prior to the event.
  • Hosts can determine through the web site whether a guest has viewed the invitation or not.

Style

The HTML page for the invitation may have various stylistic features chosen by the inviter. These include setting color and layout and renaming the four guest categories.

Updates

Hosts may opt to send guests updates when other guests RSVP for the event, or when the event details are changed.

Legal Controversy

According to Mashable and Venturebeat, Evite has threatened to sue San Francisco based start up and competitor Socializr due to alleged copyright infringement.

Criticism

  • Entrepreneur Auren Hoffman wrote a blog post in January 2006 pointing out that Evite had great potential but had not improved for six years. Later Auren wrote a guest column for VentureBeat in September 2006 called "Why I hate Evite".
  • Friendster and Evite competitor Socializr founder Jonathan Abrams has written a detailed critique of Evite
  • On May 14, 2007, Valleywag listed Evite as #1 in their list of Companies We All Hate: "Why it sucks: The invitation e-mails don't contain the info for the event! Gah! And the page everyone clicks to is choked with ads."
  • Time Magazine named Evite one of their "5 Worst Websites" and "Sites to Avoid". [1]
  • Wired Magazine's February 2008 issue on "Why Things Suck" includes an article criticizing Evite. [2]


Notable references

  • The Simpsons: The character "Snake" responded to a fellow inmate who was unaware of an impending jailbreak:
"I sent you an Evite. You never responded. Nice Netiquette, jerk!" audio clip
  • Alias: In season 4, episode 3 Jack crashes a birthday party thrown for Weiss and comments on his lack of an invitation: "Unless it was an Evite. I don't read Evites."
  • The Office: In E-mail Surveillance, Jim Halpert sends Evites to his coworkers to a barbecue at his house, excluding regional manager Michael Scott from the guestlist. "Wonder where my eVitation is?" Scott ponders aloud.

External links

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Evite". Image Credit.
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Topics by Level of Interest: EVITE

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"evite" is a common misspelling or typo for: Levite.

Synonyms: evite
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Verb

 shun.
Consider also: avoid, evade, eschew, escape, elude, dodge, flee, refuse, shirk, banish, discard, dispose, ostracise, ostracize, relegate.
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