Comments on: Managing Your Social Life With EventBox http://gigaom.com/apple/managing-your-social-life-with-eventbox/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:00:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tech Industry News » Blog Archive » Socialite Leaves Beta, Brings Twitter Lists to Mac Desktop http://gigaom.com/apple/managing-your-social-life-with-eventbox/#comment-335315 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:20:17 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=10014#comment-335315 [...] a solution that keeps track of various social networks at once, all in one centralized location, EventBox for the Mac was a nice beta program that did the trick. EventBox is no more, but the program still [...]

]]> By: Socialite Leaves Beta, Brings Twitter Lists to Mac Desktop http://gigaom.com/apple/managing-your-social-life-with-eventbox/#comment-335314 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:12:55 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=10014#comment-335314 [...] a solution that keeps track of various social networks at once, all in one centralized location, EventBox for the Mac was a nice beta program that did the trick. EventBox is no more, but the program still [...]

]]> By: Rob http://gigaom.com/apple/managing-your-social-life-with-eventbox/#comment-335309 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:09:05 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=10014#comment-335309 There is a web based solution already out there. Socialthing.

]]> By: nerdd.net | news and opinion http://gigaom.com/apple/managing-your-social-life-with-eventbox/#comment-335308 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:08:29 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=10014#comment-335308 Managing Your Social Life With EventBox | nerdd.net…

rnEventBox is an application created by The Cosmic Machine, which aims to provide one place from w…

]]> By: Milen http://gigaom.com/apple/managing-your-social-life-with-eventbox/#comment-335307 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:51:44 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=10014#comment-335307 For anyone browsing around the comments, you can read our official response on http://getsatisfaction.com/thecosmicmachine/topics/charging_20_for_a_beta

Kind regards,
Milen
The Cosmic Machine

]]> By: MILE http://gigaom.com/apple/managing-your-social-life-with-eventbox/#comment-335304 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:02:09 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=10014#comment-335304 Sorry, but what I am byuing is a pig in a poke…! I would be pre-financing your development by purchasing an app that is far from being usable on a daily basis and about which I don’t know enough to expect it to be finished any time soon…!

Don’t get me wrong, I would gladly pay 15-20 $ for this once it is completed, but I wouldn’t have my car dealer convince me to pay for the new car now and have the wheels delivered some time in the future…! ;)

Right now I have no idea when the final version is going to be released and whether it will actually be as useful/usable as I jopt it might be…but you honestly expect me to pay up in advance…?! Uhm, sorry, not going to happen…

As I said before – as long as it is a beta, it should be free…! Once you have a final version (whenever that may be), then you can/should charge money for it…!

]]> By: Lee Webb http://gigaom.com/apple/managing-your-social-life-with-eventbox/#comment-335313 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:46:28 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=10014#comment-335313 This looks interesting but I wonder, is there anything similar to this that would track and organize all the forums I post to? I can bookmark the forums I use but if there was an app that kept them all together that’d be cool.

]]> By: Milen http://gigaom.com/apple/managing-your-social-life-with-eventbox/#comment-335303 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:27:11 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=10014#comment-335303 Hi,

I’m one of the developers of EventBox. I’ll shortly address the current situation. If you buy EventBox now (for $15), here’s what you get:
- Access to the beta (so that you can use it)
- Version 1.0 when it gets released
- All point fixes (1.x)
- Unlimited email support

You’re basically paying less to get the full-featured version and you can start using it now. As I have explained in greater length[1], we already support many features for our services and have a ton of features coming up. Just decide whether it is worth $15 for you. If it isn’t at the moment, try it out in a month or two. If you don’t like, don’t buy it.

[1] http://getsatisfaction.com/thecosmicmachine/topics/charging_20_for_a_beta

If anyone has any more questions, feel free to contact us or leave a comment, I will try and respond.

]]> By: Jim http://gigaom.com/apple/managing-your-social-life-with-eventbox/#comment-335312 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:38:28 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=10014#comment-335312 I’m just guessing here, but I suspect that the $15 price tag isn’t just for the beta, but the 1st shipping version. Basically, you’re pre-ordering the app and getting the beta for free until it’s released.

I could be wrong though.

]]> By: Jake http://gigaom.com/apple/managing-your-social-life-with-eventbox/#comment-335302 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:49:11 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=10014#comment-335302 I would like to see the icon in the doc gone and just use the menu icon. Also, more function from face book would be nice and the ability to add different social websites. It will need to so a lot of other improvements to get me to spend 20 bucks!

]]> By: MILE http://gigaom.com/apple/managing-your-social-life-with-eventbox/#comment-335306 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:43:37 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=10014#comment-335306 What a joke, they just announced that they “have decided to drop the price down from $20 to $15 during the beta period as a way to give something back to early adopters.”.

This is totally oxymoronic — as I just pointed out, there shouldn’t even be a price tag at all on a beta version…!

]]> By: MILE http://gigaom.com/apple/managing-your-social-life-with-eventbox/#comment-335305 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:58:06 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=10014#comment-335305 Okay, help me out here — when did software developers start charging money for unpolished beta versions…?! I admit that EventBox has potential and I have long been waiting for some kind of “social web aggregator” for the Mac…but it lacks a whole bunch of services and it also lacks many, many features in conjunction with those services…!

So giving users a trial period of 14 days and the having them pay 20$ for beta testing your unfinished app is a total dealbreaker…!

I think the app may be going in the right direction and I’m sure the devs are putting lots of effort into it, which I certainly appreciate — but this policy (that has unfortunately become more common lately) is just not right…

]]> By: Joey Sanders http://gigaom.com/apple/managing-your-social-life-with-eventbox/#comment-335311 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:33:12 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=10014#comment-335311 Looks really cool, except that it is 10.5 only…
BOOO!

What is so great about this app that they can’t make it 10.4 compatible?

]]> By: fitzage http://gigaom.com/apple/managing-your-social-life-with-eventbox/#comment-335310 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:25:59 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=10014#comment-335310 I checked this out, and it looks very cool and promissing.

One thing I noticed right away, though, is that the Facebook support is way too limited for me. It doesn’t show posted items or give the ability to comment on anything.

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