For Internet invitations, a new generation of Web sites - NYTimes.com

It’s nigh on New Year’s Eve, and you’ve decided to invite some friends over for Champagne, frivolity and Ryan Seacrest. So you draft an Evite and wait for responses.

Mr. Seacrest seems poised to be the Dick Clark of this century, enjoying a long and ageless tenure over Times Square. Evite, however, does not display similar staying power. It was once both innovative and indispensable, but since being bought by IAC/InterActiveCorp in 2001, Evite has more or less been left to languish...