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April 13, 2006

Google Calendar Is Alive

My first impressions of Google Calendar are very positive. I like the fact that they've already implemented data export (Atom feed or iCal format) instead of delivering it later or choosing lock-in. I've put a few events in there and have liked the feature set. One immediate specific use I see is as a podcast-scheduling service. As long as all parties have a GCal account, they can coordinate times and resources, and possibly even use GTalk to conference. Check it out.

Posted by Alex Harden on April 13, 2006 10:41 AM |

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I have signed in but have not dug deeply into it. At one time I had hoped to use the Mozilla offering. But within the last year I have moved much of my application use to web services. I love and use multiple accounts on Gmail and love the idea of Google Calendar being available wherever I find a web connection.

Posted by: Scott | April 13, 2006 8:55 PM

It's funny you mention Mozilla. I hadn't touched Sunbird in over a year, but decided to install the Mozilla Calendar Firefox extension to test GCal's iCal feed. And it worked. I just need to see whether or not it caches the data or whether it's grabbing it interactively. I think the perfect complement to GCal is a cached offline synched copy.

Posted by: aharden | April 13, 2006 11:29 PM

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