iVitefromINOV8is the first app for iDevices that allow users to share calendar events from app to app. Instead of plain old email invites, iVite delivers event notifications by push messages. This way, you won’t lose the invite in an unread, spam filled inbox. The usefulness of iVite is two fold. You can sync all push invites received to your calender and share existing events from the calender. After a quick sign up, you can start adding friends to your address book ( or vice versa)....

Twitter has proven to be a quick and effective medium of communication but if saying “thank you” or “arigato” doesn’t seem enough, consider trying outGiftee, a service that lets users send small tokens of appreciation via Twitter. Unfortunately for most of us, it’s only available in Japan at the moment. Giftee is a project of investorYuma Umeda, which got the best project award at seed acceleratorOpen Network Lab2010, and is funded by venture capitalist firmInspire Corporation....

In 1999 I had just sold my first business to an American company. We were in our new offices when a friend emailed me a few very funny images with some naked ladies on them. I laughed and showed them to the guy working next to me. He said ‘That’s funny. Why don’t you forward them to the others’. I assumed he meant the male geeks writing code who sat near us so I said ‘Sure, what are their email addresses?...

The Internet is ripe with statistical data. You can measure, rate, Like and +1 nearly everything, particularly places and things. But one Los Angeles based startup namedSendLove.tobelieves there is a need to start rating and measuring people, particularly public figures. “The problem with rating people is that it takes lots of opinions to start getting closer to the truth and no one has time to give hundreds of thousands of opinions about each other....

Sendwritelets you send someone a physical letter just by writing an email and including the persons name and address. A few services have popped up like this, but the focus on real world interaction is a trend that we’ve seen the past few months. No longer is a simple e-card or text message enough. Having something put in the mail and the receiver physically getting it is seen as special....