I can’t believe how bad Evite is as a Web application. It was bad before it got old, but now it’s old and really bad. Auren Hoffman has already described what’s wrong with Evite in this post.I’m not saying that Alsop Louie will fund it, but I can imagine that some youngster can make a new invitation manager that’s fully buzzword compliant, an Ajax-based, Web 2.0 service replete with mashups (integration with Maps, Calendar, Contacts, skype, Flikr, Youtube; shoot, everything you can imagine!), tagging, categorization, and so forth. And it wouldn’t cost that much; I might even fund it personally!

And there would be more than a little bite of pleasure in giving IAC a run for its money: its Ticketmaster division bought Evite.com in 2001 and then IAC itself bought ZeroDegrees in 2004, but I’ll be darned if I can tell the difference in Evite’s functionality despite the number of years in between.