Calendar Swamp

If we're ever going to share calendars, we have to insist on interoperability between them all.
Let's drain the swamp!

Thursday, December 29, 2005

iPod iCal education curve

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Comment spotted on The Unofficial Apple Weblog: "My iPod keeps spitting out the wrong times for my iCal reminders...can anyone tell me...
Tuesday, December 27, 2005

CalDAV standard approaches release

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Lisa Dusseault : "We're getting very, very close with CalDAV." I recorded an episode of Opening Move with Lisa earlier this mo...
Monday, December 26, 2005

A public ping server for events

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Brian Dear is calling on all event Web sites to publish to a common public ping server for events. I second the notion. Anyone who can suc...
Saturday, December 24, 2005

MacFixIt says some iCal calendars are disappearing

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From MacFixIt : " A growing number of users are reporting an issue where calendars disappear from iCal -- though individual meetings ma...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Outlook 2003 to iCal: It works!

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Well, today for the first time I've successfully sent calendar invitations from Outlook to iCal. I'm still not happy with the genera...
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Calendars as a general case? Not so fast

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Dan Farber : "As is generally the case with software, calendars are tethered to specific platforms, which makes it difficult to ensure ...
Monday, November 21, 2005

Microsoft busts a move toward calendar sharing

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While Microsoft's products continue to be the biggest calendar-sharing problem, solutions are coming in the form of SSE . I can't wa...
Saturday, November 19, 2005

Apple needs to do more too

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How delightful to read John Welch's critique of Apple's calendaring effort, which could be better: "While things like iCal, ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Missing Sync 5.0 marries Palm OS, Mac OS X Tiger

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It's good to see the new Missing Sync for Palm 5.0 , which should smoooth calendar synchronization between Palm OS devices and Macintosh...
Thursday, October 27, 2005

When 2.0: Let the mergers begin!

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Too many Web 2.0 calendar services already? Let the mergers begin, at When 2.0 , December 6, at Stanford University. Technorati tag: When 2....
Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Waiting for Google Calendar

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Someone named Chris launched a blog devoted to the still-unannounced Google Calendar. The most interesting thing revealed so far is the fac...
Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Discovering SchoolBell

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SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source licen...
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Monday, September 19, 2005

AirSet "debuted" at DEMO

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AirSet had its official coming-out party at DEMO today. My opinion remains unchanged.
Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Microsoft's own calendars don't sync

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Ex-Microsoft employee Mark Jen, quoted by Forbes : "MSN e-mail should talk to Office Calendar contacts and share appointments from Off...

Mysterious iCal success

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Inexplicably, my copy of Outlook 2003 now exports iCal .ics files correctly. Maybe I had to be surrounded by a critical mass of Microsoft em...

Zimbra: More open-source calendaring

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Kevin Yank writes : "Zimbra, an extensible open-source client/server system for managing email, contacts, and calendaring...is Microsof...
Thursday, September 08, 2005

iTunes 5 lets iPod sync with Outlook

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Apple : "iTunes 5 now also supports contacts syncing via Outlook or contacts and calendar syncing via Outlook Express for the PC."...
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Take the CalConnect survey

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Quoting CalConnect: "The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium has identified a need for more interoperability and data exchange betwe...
Tuesday, September 06, 2005

All about vCal

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The top result for a "vCal" search on Google is the page "vCard and vCalendar." It's owned by The Internet Mail Con...
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Friday, September 02, 2005

Good news: AirSet adds Palm sync support

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Walt Mossberg this week reviewed Trumba and AirSet . Of the two, only AirSet supports synching calendars with the Palm OS as well as Outlook...
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Scott Mace
Scott Mace writes about health, healthcare technology, other technology, and urban issues. He graduated from San Jose State University and was a senior editor at IDG publication InfoWorld for 16 years, covering topics such as database management and government oversight of technology. Since 2004, he has specialized in the field of healthcare IT journalism. Following completion of a certificate in Clinical Trial Design and Management at UC's San Diego Extension, he was senior technology editor at HealthLeaders Media. In 2015, he received the Jesse H. Neal Award for Best Technical Content for a Publication with Brand Revenue of $3M to $7M. In 2016 he was awarded the National Silver Award, Regional Gold Aware of Excellence, Feature Article, General Interest, More than $3M Revenue, Southeast Category, from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). Mace is currently a freelance journalist based in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
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