Bye-Bye Intern 1!

Yesterday was my intern's last day, and we took Julia out for an amazing sushi lunch (so... much... sushi...) to say goodbye.

She did a great job this summer on all three projects. The first two I can't talk about unfortunately because it's a confidential project - but I can provide a detailed look into the third project.

At Google, we believe that interns should learn as much as possible during their internship. We've given Julia such as opportunity and we even offered that she can continue her third project into the school year. As a parting gift, we gave her a personalized present that provides her everything she needs for this project.

The Google Code Blog discusses her work on a project called Geozette. Julia's team implemented this as a part of a distributed computing course. You'll be hearing more about this course next winter, when I'll be taking over as instructor (yay 20% projects!).

Evite Alternatives

Evite frustrates me. There are lots of bugs in the messages and hassles in using it, but the real issue is that I have to get an exception to organize an event with more than 750 people invited. I've gotten the exception so far, but it's on a case-by-case basis and at point they might cut me off - and they do. (Dear Evite, I know it's to limit spam, but isn't it obvious that I'm not a spammer? Why are you pushing away your best customers?) So, anyway, I'm looking for other options...

Here's what I've looked at so far, but none of them are quite fitting my needs:
What's the Plan
Planypus
Socializr
MyPunchBowl
Renkoo
Google/Outlook/Etc Calendar Invites
Facebook Invites
Any that I'm missing here?