Calendar Swamp

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

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Calimanjaro to the rescue?

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Well this is a positive development. A new iCal-friendly Windows calendar called Calimanjaro . Now if they can get some kind of sync going w...
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Monday, December 18, 2006

Multi-household family calendars

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OurFamilyWizard.com provides resolution of duties in a multi-household family, one affected by separation, divorce or remarriage. Thing is,...
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Monday, December 11, 2006

More calendar chaos coming

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Rob Weir : "So the new OOXML standard now contradicts 400 years of civil calendar practice, encodes nonexistent dates and returns the ...
Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Google Calendar terms of service

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I love the questions and facts I get from Calendar Swamp readers. One such reader alerted me that the Google Calendar terms of service limi...
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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Why standards matter

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From the Spanning Sync blog : "Google Calendar is currently experiencing some technical problems. Internally we often refer to building...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Insane syncing

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Ian Forrester : "Welcome to my insane syncing setup for calendars, contacts and tasks."
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Friday, October 20, 2006

Trumba retrenches

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Trumba had offered a free service that synchronized some offline calendars, but the company's had to retrench to find revenue. So, fare...
Monday, October 09, 2006

CalDAV is now a Proposed Standard

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Congratulations to all those working on the CalDAV standard, which the IETF has now adopted as a Proposed Standard. SwampDrain factor: +1.
Thursday, September 28, 2006

Goo Sync launches

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It's turning into quite a week. Yesterday a new sync service for Google Calendar launched. Check out Goo Sync . I'll be looking into...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

No guru, no method, no teacher

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Dana Gardner just posted a podcast we recorded last week, before I stumbled upon CalendarWorld. I'm no calendar interop guru, just a gu...

Looking for info about .ifb files

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ScheduleWorld generates .ifb files. I had never heard of .ifb files before. It looks like they are iCalendar free/busy files. But Apple'...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

ScheduleWorld Outlook 2003 sync worked! Woo hoo!

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So far, so good. After figuring out what info to enter into the Funambol plug-in, I was able to sync my Outlook 2003 calendar (and contacts!...
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Help me, ScheduleWorld. You're my only hope

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As I face The Decision (whether to upgrade to Outlook 2007 or not) I'm grasping at any available alternative straws. ScheduleWorld may ...
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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

CalDAV moves forward

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Although there aren't many CalDAV-compatible calendars yet, they're coming. Recently I talked with Dave Thewlis of CalConnect about...
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

State of Linux calendaring 2006

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I spent some time at LinuxWorld yesterday talking with Kevin Carmony, president and CEO of Linspire , makers of a more customer-friendly ver...
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Apple iCal server is under the Apache open source license

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Ted Leung points to Apple's clarification that yes, indeed, the Apple CalDAV-compliant iCal server is being provided under the Apache ...
Monday, August 07, 2006

Apple announces iCal server, mainstream press misses the story

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Apple press release : "For the first time, Mac OS X Server will include a calendar server for users and groups to coordinate events, sc...
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Check out this diagram, and Plaxo's role in it

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Ian Forrester diagrams calendar interoperability that works for him. It's the first time I've heard that Plaxo has a Web-based cale...
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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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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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