There sure are an amazing amount of social and curated gifting sites popping up this season! It’s clearly a great idea, so it will be interesting to see which ones succeed and which ones don’t. Quarterly is a new way to connect with the people you follow and find interesting. We spend so much of our lives connecting with people online that we forget the value of authentic interactions that happen in the real world. This new service from the former editor of Good Magazine let’s you subscribe to tastemakers like Alexis Madrigal of The Atlantic or Scott Belsky of Behance, every three months you get a gift curated by the person you’ve chosen to subscribe to. You can receive physical items in the mail from influential contributors and cultural icons of your choice.

What kind of stuff will you get? Quarterly says that you’ll see a blend of original, exclusive, and consumer items that are timeless, practical, exciting, and fly under the radar. The idea is not to fill up your house with clutter, and they are mindful of the waste that we all generate each day. They also recognize that consumption isn’t inherently bad, but just a matter of making smarter choices about the things we surround ourselves with.

Quarterly users can subscribe to as many contributors as they like. Support for multiple subscriptions was by their most requested feature ever since the launch, and it’s now being offered. We’re thinking this is pretty awesome. What you are getting is an experience, just like getting a letter in the mail from a good friend. Instead, you’re getting a gift from someone super cool that you admire! Super!

Will you be testing out Quarterly this holiday season?

We recently saw the launch of a new lifestyle brand, HelloBrit.com which aims to find helpful, yet creative new ways for busy people to live more simply, beautifully and imaginatively. Brit Morin (wife to Dave Morin, the founder of Path) has been working in the tech world for several years now and was a former Apple and Google employee. She is already being touted as the Martha Stewart of Silicon Valley and has recently been featured in The LA Times, Huffington Post, and TechCrunch. Brit gives new ideas and tips to live a more simple and creative life whether it be through technology, food, style, health that she either created or curated from scouring the web, something that is becoming very popular! Brit says “The ideas should come to you, and they should come through a channel whose expertise and taste you trust.”

Her site is looking like a cross between Real Simple and Wired Magazines with videos showing you how to make Christmas tree cheese appetizers, how to use electrical tape to make candy cane cups, DIY Holiday welcome mats, wearable dinner party napkins, and more. She recently featured a great gift guide for the holidays and showcases 20 of her favorite products and apps. Thanks Brit!

The brand’s first offering is a wedding app called Weduary, which was inspired by the process that Morin and her husband used in planning their own ”Pixel Cowboy”- themed wedding this summer. This will be a new service for brides and grooms, and will hopefully make for a more interesting experience for guests online and off. Make sure to sign up on the website to be notified when the new site arrives! There will be some other apps launched in the future which will likely be centered around ways to be creative around the home and novel ways to perform everyday activities like cooking, decorating and shopping.

We hope you enjoy and use Hello Brit for a little inspiration into your own creativity! We know that at ABCey, we will be keeping up Brit’s innovative ideas and using them for inspiration of our own, especially this holiday season.

According to Mashable.com, here are ten tech items that are in demand for this year’s holiday season.  These lists vary from site to site, but ABCey Events think this one sums up this year’s tech accomplishments pretty well.

1. iPad- a tablet computer made by Apple

2. Kinect- a control-free gaming entertainment system by Microsoft for Xbox 360

3. Samsung Galaxy Tablet- a compact tablet computer for Android by Samsung

4. Canon PowerShot SD3500IS- a new compact camera by Canon that has touch screen capabilities

5. TiVo Slide- a TiVo remote with a slideout keyboard

6. Eagle Eye Converter- for PlayStation 3, provides the option of using aUSB keyboard and mouse instead of a controller

7. Apple TV- a digital media receiver made by Apple, compatable with Netflix, iTunes, Windows, and others

8. Dell Streak- a smartphone/tablet PC made for the Android system by Dell

9. PC- a personal computer, anything from a MacBook to a Dell to a Sony

10. Digifit Connect &App- the first heart rate monitor and weight tracker on the iPad, iPhone, or iPod

Check out Mashable’s full article here!

With Hanukkah here and Christmas around the corner, we’re all scrambling for those last minute gifts. This year, let technology make it easy…

We love these great digital gift ideas for social media lovers from Mashable‘s Barb Dybwad!

1. iTunes Gift Certificates

The iTunes Store makes it easy to give songs, albums, playlists, audiobooks, music videos, movies, and TV shows to anyone. Or give iTunes Gift Cards and gift certificates and let them choose for themselves.

2. Dropbox Subscription

Dropbox is a cloud storage, sharing and backup option. You can buy a Pro account (100 GB of storage space) for under $20/month. Great for students or anyone trying to keep multiple computers in sync!

3. Flickr Pro

Give the gift of unlimited photo and video uploads, storage and bandwidth with a Flickr Pro account.

4. Amazon Gift Certificate

A personal favorite, Amazon lets you give gift cards by e-mail, snail mail or printable versions.

5. Last.fm Subscription

The music social network, discovery engine and personalized ratio station allows subscriptions for uninterrupted music streaming…ad free and only $3/month!

6. Steam Gifts

Got a gamer friend? Give the gift of steam. You can purchase games from the popular digital game distribution platform for current or new users. Download Squad can help you pick which game.

7. Netflix Subscription

Got a non-netflix member friend? Now is the time to convert them! Netflix is the best way to rent movies unlimited by mail. Subscriptions are available from 1 month up to 1 year.

8. Evernote Premium

An Evernote subscription allows 500 MB/ month of uploads, broader file type support, syncing, PDF search, premium support and other benefits. Good for an already Evernote user…or not!

9. Audible.com

This would be a great gift for a commuter or anyone else who listens to audio books. You can choose a certain amount or a monthly subscription to various books on tape!

10. Newegg Gift Cards

Newegg gift cards may be used toward the purchase of any in Newegg’s vast selection of computers and computer parts, televisions, monitors and other gadgets.

Any other great digital gift ideas? We would love to hear about them!