I covered Skobee previously here. Skobee is a new service that lets groups of people plan an outing through concensus. The beauty of their approach is that the details don't have to be determined before you start using it. In fact, the system is designed so that the group can make the who, what, where decisions gradually, as people join the activity.

A person can start "making plans" by entering as much or as little information as they want.




This creates a page that the people the person invites can then suggest alternatives and respond whether they are in or out. In the screenshot below, you can see how anyone can suggest a time.




Skobee also enables a free form discussion among the invitees. People can participate in the conversation via a discussion thread or by simply cc'ing plans@skobee.com.

Overall, I think this is a very smart application. This certainly models a process that happens over email and IM now: friends make decisions this way. The smart thing about skobee is that it organizes the discussion that is usually very decentralized, unstructured and un-necessarily threaded by email. I think skobee will be changing the way people make plans. And I think they could easily overtake evite as the predominant tool for gathering friends together.