What’s the Buzz all about? We’ve launched “MyPunchbowl Buzz”
We’ve been pretty heads down here over the last week or so. It always gets that way around here right before a major new release. Today, we’re excited to tell you about the latest version of MyPunchbowl.
MyPunchbowl now includes a sophisticated party planning notification system, named “Buzz”, which tracks host and guests interactions as they happen. MyPunchbowl Buzz offers the host personalized alerts during every phase of party planning. Guests can enable their own alerts on the site by signing up for a MyPunchbowl account.
The MyPunchbowl Buzz notification system is a significant step forward for our app. We’ve built a robust notification system that’s capable of handing any kind of messaging– we’ll be rolling out RSS by the end of the week, with SMS and instant messaging to follow. MyPunchbowl is no longer a static party planning site –it’s now a constantly-updating system for every stage of party planning. Based on the platform we’ve built, you can expect some pretty interesting things from MyPunchbowl in the future– we’re building a Buzz API to allow developers to build custom apps around this data (think Facebook app, embeddable widget, Twitter etc). We’re really excited about how this opens up our app.
I’ll write more about MyPunchbowl Buzz in a future post. In the meantime, here’s a screenshot of a MyPunchbowl account with the new Buzz notification system:
