Calendar Swamp

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

Saturday, July 22, 2006

Imagining calendar interop nirvana on Inside the Net

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I was delighted to be the featured guest on today's Inside the Net podcast , speaking with Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte about the lat...
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Thursday, July 20, 2006

Interoperable free/busy info demoed by Calconnect

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Thanks to Dave Thewlis, executive director of Calconnect , for letting me know today that the organization this week demonstrated interopera...
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Monday, June 26, 2006

Gimme that one-time religion

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Okay, okay, I get it. Calendar interoperability is either impossible, too tough to define, it's going to cost me $$ every month, I'l...
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Saturday, June 24, 2006

CompanionLink for Google Calendar

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Blog post from The Personal Productivity Show: "CompanionLink for Google Calendar ™ is a two-way synchronization solution for people ...
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Yahoo! Calendar to iCal converter

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I just discovered Manas Tungare's Yahoo! Calendar to iCal converter . Swampdrain rating: +1.
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The difference between import/export and sync

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Yahoo! has a succinct description of the difference between import/export and sync.
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Firefox calendar lives! With some confusion

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I was pleased to discover today that there is an updated calendar plug-in for Firefox 1.5. But Mozilla needs to get the word out better. In ...
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

getCals lets iPods grab Google Calendars

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Johnny Gizmo has a script called getCals that lets iPods (those with calendars) grab Google Calendars.
Thursday, May 18, 2006

Google Calendar API

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Google Calendar has an API . Thanks to Wired writer Lucas Graves, who brought this to my attention.
Monday, May 15, 2006

Office 12 beta likes Google Calendar

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With the help of a product developer within Microsoft, I've been able to open iCal invitations, generated by a beta release of Office 12...
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Monday, May 08, 2006

View all calendar mashups

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The Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix includes info on available mashups between the major Web 2.0 calendar programs and other Web 2.0 services. Not ex...
Tuesday, May 02, 2006

SpaceShare takes calendar sharing to the highways

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SpaceShare is cool. It's a way to offer or find a carpool ride to an event. The impetus is on the event organizer to sign on. Judging f...
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

The Office 2007 iCal challenge

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It's time to start trying to settle this Office 2007 iCal question , but I refuse to install the beta software myself. I still don't...
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Monday, April 24, 2006

Linux-based Nokia tablet comes with Outlook calendar sync -- for a monthly fee

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The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, which Amazon currently sells for less than $400, can be used with an offline calendar to be synched to Outloo...

Will Crossbow support iCal directly?

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Well, Microsoft once again opts for an aggressive product code name: Crossbow, for the next version of Windows Mobile ("Hailstorm"...

Event Share Framework site goes dark

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Missing, presumed dead: The Web site http://www.esfstandard.org , which had tracked the RSS-based calendar-sharing extension called Event Sh...
Friday, April 21, 2006

Google Calendar saves to private .ics file

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Okay, so Google Calendars can be saved to a private .ics file , and this permits a level of calendar sharing. Now, where's that "sa...
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Thursday, April 13, 2006

Google Calendar: Events enter, don't easily come out

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Google Calendar looks good enough. But there isn't a straightfoward way to export its calendar data to mobile devices. (RSS subscriptio...
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Calendar standards history is ugly, Oracle's planned support is not

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Phil Durbin pointed me to this extensive history of calendar standards, published last month, and sorry reading it is. But progress continu...
Tuesday, March 28, 2006

TimeBridge: Worth watching

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I've always believed the calendar swamp will be drained first and best by service providers. We've seen some already targeted at fam...
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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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