If we're ever going to share calendars, we have to insist on interoperability between them all.
Let's drain the swamp!
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Matt chooses Groupcal; limits of Plaxo
Matthew Mullenweg, creator of WordPress, has also been looking for calendar interoperability. He settled on Groupcal. Groupcal won't do it for me because it requires an Exchange server. I want Exchange-free synching between Outlook and iCal. Plaxo got mentioned too in his comments. But Plaxo apparently only syncs Outlook client to Outlook client. While that may eliminate the need to have Exchange to share Outlook calendars, I didn't like Plaxo's privacy policies when I looked at them a while back; I recall getting spammed by Plaxo when I responded to someone's request to update my contact info in their Plaxo account.
Scott,
ReplyDeleteJust a quick thought on Plaxo. I just started using it and they have a beta plug in for Addressbook which is pretty great. Although that has nothing to do with calendars it's a step in the right direction.
Stacy,
ReplyDeleteIs the "permanent opt-out" option more recent than my posting? If so, then Plaxo has rectified my main concern. If I had overlooked this option at the time I wrote this post, my apologies.