Find Your New Year’s Eve Bash With Web 2.0 Sites

Web 2.0 event applications have revolutionized the way we socialize in real life in much the same way social networking created a portal to the world for making new contacts and friends inside the computer. With so many web sites offering information and connections on local events, it is no surprise that the digital age has come to the party scene. This year, many are making their holiday plans online.

For some, New Year's plans started weeks or months ago on slightly older sites like Evite. They planned their offline party and went online to invite their friends via Evite's email invitation system and online RSVP service. Evite has been around since before the Web 2.0 wave, though, and more sites have emerged since then that take the concept to the next level.

After Evite came Upcoming, MeetUp and other social even planning sites like them. Upcoming and MeetUp were an improvement on Evite as a social planner, allowing people outside your circle of friends to see public events and let the world know they planned to attend. MeetUp took it one step further still, allowing you to create groups of people sharing similar locations or interests and build a series of events around them, in addition to posting events to the public like Upcoming.

For the real destination station this New Year's, the web is turning to Going. Going has finally brought social event planning full circle into the Web 2.0 sphere. By combining the best elements of site like Evite, Upcoming, MeetUp, MySpace and FaceBook, Going pulls the party life into this century.

At the moment Going is limited to the major US cities of San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles, but it claims to be coming to a city near you soon. It delivers a personalized list of events based on your preferences, and offers you the opportunity to make friends and create groups around your interests and share your events with people on and off the site.

In several cases, Going ups the ante by giving you ways to get tickets to many events right online. That's a nice feature for the party goer on the go who doesn't want to wait in a long line on New Year's Eve. In fact, almost anything you can plan online to avoid crowds and lines on New Year's has my vote. So go ahead and party like it's this century - plan your night using an online social event service.