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"New Year's Eve is only hours away for many readers, and unless you plan on sitting in your house watching the ball drop on television (or you could watch Radiohead drop an album), you may want to check out this short list of web-based tools for finding, planning and getting to a New Year's Eve party.\n\"Just the Party, Please.\"\n\n\n\n\nGoing.com - tells you where the event is, and who's going\nSocializr - see what party your friends will be attending\nI'm There - local event information with nice mobile integration\nDown2Night - shareable local venue directory so you and your friends can get it together\nGoLark- Digg for events, for leveraging recommendations\nCollegeTonight - an obvious focus on a partying demographic; will you be on campus for New Year's Eve?\nMetromix - this Chicago-based local guide to events &amp; restaurants has gone nationwide just in time for the holidays\nSocializer - still-in-beta local event search tool that does the same thing as Socializr\n\n\"Last Minute Flights Bring Out My Spontaneity\"\n\n\n\n\nFarecast- One of the most innovative travel sites out there, it offers very web 2.0-ish fare prediction with graphs and such. It also features RSS to watch fares you\u2019re interested in\nBroadwayZone - An informative way to research, find, buy tickets, find directions and hotels for any Broadway show in NYC.\nGigablast - Travel search engine with well listed, useful results.\nTravelocity - A traditional way to find cheap flights, hotels, cars and vacation packages. Ranks among Expedia, Priceline, etc.\niloho - One of the most established online travel communities with a digg-like front page for voting on user submitted stories.\nFareCompare - An insightful fare comparison service, good for acquiring a base of information towards an educated buying decision.\nSideStep - One of the premier ways to find cheap flights and hotels. Searches many sites at once for optimal price and selection.\nKosmix Travel - Search and find flights, hotels, and cars.\nTrabber - Nicely implemented, multi-site, flight search engine.\nFareChase - A powerful flight and hotel search engine, one of the best out there.\n\"I'm the Next Martha Stewart\"\n\n\n\n\nSetDot - great tool for planning your next event\nRenkoo  - collaborate casual get together with your friends using IM, email, SMS and Renkoo's site\nMyPunchBowl  - since you won't need to use its date-finder, have some holiday fun by choosing from its ever-growing selection of themed invites\nSpongecell  - great for party promoters that are looking to throw large scale events, like a New Year's Eve bash\nGroopvine  - lets you coordinate the plans for a group outing and force your friends to follow along\nZoji  - uses the MySpace approach to planning events with friends by turning each event into a mini networkWindows Live - trying to steal evite market share by letting you plan and promote events\nPlanypus - another casual event-planning tool that prompts participation with cross-device compatibility\nPlanaganza  - start your event planning with the New Year's Eve theme in mind. Planaganza will contact the venues for you.\neVite Quickvite - a stab at Renkoo and Planypus for planning casual get togethers\nI'm In - plan New Year's with friends based on brands, themes, destinations, and popular trips planned by other users\nWorktopia  - for the gracious CEO planning a get together for the team\n\"Hungry Guests = One Angry Mob\"\n\n\n\n\n101Cookbooks  - A constantly updated archive of recipes. Look them up by food style, search, or discuss in the forums.\nAllRecipes  - Over 40,000 recipes all created and tested by home chefs.\nBakeSpace  - Social networking for trading recipes.Build A Better Burger - Over 5,000 burger combinations, start with what type of meat you want and build from there.\nCDKitchen  - Recipes by and for home cooks. Recipes are submitted by chefs and home cooks.\nChef2Chef  - Recipes, instructions for beginning cooks and more.\nCookThink  - Enter the ingredients you are craving and receive a recipe in return.\nDinnersInAFlash  - Recipes as well as guides on how to organize a dinner, to do lists and grocery lists.\nGroupRecipes - plan a meal based on what you already have, and check out the TV section for video cooking lessons\n\"Vodka Martini... shaken, not stirred.\"\n\n\n\n\nBuyYourFriendADrink - Buy your friends a drink long distance by gift card or text message.\nCocktailBuilder - Build drinks from what you have on-hand by entering the ingredients, also see look up drinks by the number of things it takes to mix it.\nDrinksMixer - Over 16,000 drink recipes for you to use and enjoy.\nDrinkSwap -  Looks drinks up by your desired ingredient, also has non-alcoholic and coffee drinks.\nExtraTasty -  Search for drink recipes and tag them to share with friends.\nWebtnder - Cocktail rcipes, drink suggestions based on what you have, forums and more."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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