We crashed in the computer labs after a long night, and were mistaken for homeless people by campus security :p  

on brownies and servers...

We've stopped sending out invites for the previous 12 hours. 400,000 are in que - our servers finally gave in to the immense load. A big thank you to Michael from Bebo.com for helping us out. We've ordered brand new dual Xenon machines (absolutely top of the line) with one of the best hosting companies out there (Microsoft hosts with them). So by tomorrow, the Shizbot will send out invitations - we're expecting half a million hits tomorrow!

On the personal side, we're all exhausted. Yesterday we ran a 20 hour day - today looks like its gonna be the same. But our statistics are sky rocketing and it all makes it worth it. Yesterday 150,000 hits were recorded - its humbling and yet invigorating to see that people are actually using what we created! You guys make the juice worth the sqeeze!

We havent eaten much (no time duh!) but these uber kool brownies have kept us going. They were given to us by our lawyer. His wife invited us over for dinner and listened to us crap on about the site for hours. Previously lawyers always were these evil men lurking who either stole your money or your competitiors depending who paid them more - but now - oh my God! these dude and his family are awesome! hats off. If any of you ever want to start a company, take this law firm on board!

We're going to pull another all nighter to prepare ourselves for our new servers and infra structure! The site will go down for an hour or so at 5 am for maintaince. Thats when we will make the shift.
Murti
ps: jaz's gf just got back - ask him abt it. They seem ichy with each other - i hope nothing bad happens

Overthrow

I barely got through him. He is on the phone. I am free. For the past couple days, the iVentster.com team has been under blog-arrest by our tyrannical alibaba! Quick thing. I wanted to apologize for the technical issues that we are working around the clock to fix. Thanks for the great support so far. We have gotten great response.
Ali is coming back. Students of the world unite! OVERTHROW! BYE!

Thank you!!!

A sincere THANK YOU! to all our members, supporters and activists. So far thousands of people have signed up (we're expecting to break a million over the weekend). The surveys we've gotten are AWEEESOME!!! (muwah** love u folks!). Although we're still running sleepless starved nights, the signs ups are coming rolling in by the tens of thousands!!!. By next week, our vision, 'Events at every single college under one roof', (not just any roof our uber cool social interactive calendar) will come true. Now a female starved Williams kid will be able to hit parties at schools (i.e. Holyoke) around the area and not forget the the beauties of this world (okay now im pushing it).

Now that im done with the mushy part, lets get down to business. Most people have posted their personal activities, like classes, actitivties. Post public events, parties, stuff you want the cool kids next door to come to. On average each event gets viewed over a 100 times rite now (number is gonna increase to 1000 soon) so post and people WILL see it :p

mailschmails

We found a bug yesterday in our email system - seems like Prosper (who's coding this Shizbot) was out of it when writing this part of the code. Yeah, he's been single too long. The "from" field in some of the invite emails you guys have been sending was jibbled - the email seemed to come from Prosper, not the person who invited you. We are happy, indeed very happy (okay maybe not Prosper) that this bug has been permanently squished.

You know how you can customize invites when sending them out? Someone did something wack with their invite. Funniest one to date.

The damn iventser thing wants to send you all this message to make you sign up. Then, if you decide to sign up, it will try to send this message to all your friends too. It's a pyramid scheme, I say. I'm cleverly altering the message to foil its plans. But I want to see what it is. Have a good day.

We don't take ourselves seriously, and neither should you :)

Bad Education

I don't care where you are, the one thing I have learned in doing this project is that we as students are not trusted. Except to the smallest of extents, to everyone around us, we are just students. Idiots. Empty barrles to be filled up, advertised, and sold. We don't know what we are doing. Look they are starting a buisness, isn't that cute? Look they are doing community service, thats so nice.

I want some respect, cause bottom line, I have learned more from my peers than any class, professor, or book. But do we ever get the chance to explore this imaginary real world? No. Cause that dosn't matter until they have finished with us. We aren't prepared. We aren't ready. We are still naive and idealistic. We can't be trusted because we are not like them yet.

Experiental education is the ultimate assertion of a student's freedom to learn for his or herself and it is dying on college campuses. Williams doesn't give a crap about anything not on the syllabus. I say screw the syllabus.

The first apearance of Pimpin Paki

Hola!
I cant spell for shit. That said, lets move on to more serious things; the Holyoke girls. Aparently there were rumours amongst the Holyoke bunch (we are a team of 4 guys and thus the obsession with Holyoke) that iVentster.com is a scam and we're out there to collect emails!
helLoooOO!! we put in 16 hours days, broke up with gfs, screwed our GPA, got kicked around by campus security (who thought we were homeless people) etc. If you're 16 +, hot and female call me 413 884 5774 to verify that this is not fake...
I just flew back in from Florida. While these three guys busted their asses working 20 hour days, i was admist 80 F and hottest females on the planet! (being at Williams i had forgotten what beauty truly is- but Florida was like God sent heaven!). To all the Williams girls, look up from your books, put aside the glasses and learn how to party.
All of you are invited to come see my play - i'm playing the gay lead (with lots of intimate scenes). Its called 'On a Muggy nite in Mumbai'. Its running at Williams on the 15th and 16th of April.
Prosper has collapsed after 70 hours of non stop work and since hes down, tonite is for darts, poker and the apprentice.

Muri
p.s: unlike jaz and ali who try and be funny, this is a more honest account of whats happening here at base camp.

yummy

Personality? That Jazz has more hair than he has personality.

I don't think of you guys as a market. I think of you as people I can ask out. Or sleep with.

Student Surpasses Master

Hey Alibaba, you are as unoriginal as you are small. "Holyoke Ho's" was my quote. And that was off-the-record. What kind of person insults their first successful market? Here's to all the beautiful young ladies at Mt. Holyoke, I respect you. I KNOW Murti respects you, Prosper too. Ali is just gay. Get your hand off my crotch! Sorry.

I just feel someone needs to take the responsibility of appreciating their market. Ali doesn't see you as real people, I do. And Ali, don't whine so much. Playing poker with me while Prosper was programming doesn't count as work. Buggers? That's all I have to say about that. Talk to you? I am talking to you Ali. Our peeps deserve better than your pathetic meanderings. My name is Jaz "Urban Turban" Ster, and I pledge here today to defend the iVentster masses from Alibaba's whineful tyranny.

mwa mwa

The holyoke girls are the first to be really, really using the site. Go Holyoke Ho's go go go. I wish I was at Holyoke for the rest of college. *sigh* So much love. Williams sucks.

the site's just launched. Go use it you buggers. You know how hard we've worked on this? Jazz is boring me. Somebody talk to me.