Calendar Swamp

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

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

IBM Workplace now supports iCal

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IBM gets a SwampDrain factor of +3 this morning by announcing yesterday that they've added "iCal support for calendar interoperab...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Why I prefer ifreebusy.com to AirSet

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Over the past two weeks, I've praised ifreebusy.com on several occasions, but I haven't mentioned another free calendar synchroniza...
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Dana Gardner and I talk about calendaring

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Dana Gardner of invited me to talk with him about calendaring on his Briefings Direct podcast. Listen to the podcast here and read Dana...
Monday, January 16, 2006

Adobe wants to help drain the swamp a bit

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I just stumbled across Adobe's demo of a Flash-powered Web page that a hypothetical travel site could offer in the future, allowing visi...
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Saturday, January 14, 2006

MightyPhone guesstimate

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Ever wonder how much data you'd be transferring when synchronizing your mobile phone calendar with a PC? Sync service provider MightyPho...

BlackBerry draining its Mac swamp

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Information Week : " BlackBerry maker Research in Motion said Thursday that it will give away free synchronization software to Mac own...
Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Yahoo Go! -- for a price

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It's great that Yahoo! is going to sync its calendar with mobile phones , but oy! Watch out for those data charges!
Monday, January 09, 2006

Calendar Swamp podcast #6, 1/6/06

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The free/busy show. What are free/busy calendars? How can they be shared? Evaluating (and improving) ifreebusy.com , which allows free/busy ...
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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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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