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, May 31, 2007

Shared tags are a good idea, how do we agree on them?

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Earlier this month Brad Templeton posted an interesting list of possible tags that could add rich meaning to the events entered in one'...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Musings on Palm and Google

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The Palm Foleo , announced today, and Google Gears, being announced tomorrow , both have impacts on the calendar landscape. The Foleo offers...
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Friday, May 25, 2007

Whoomp! There it is

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Turns out Google Calendar for Mobile Phones was announced a couple of days ago. Thanks to my commenters for quickly pointing this out. I...
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Google Calendar for mobile devices?

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Maybe this sync-with-my-native-calendar stuff is a blind alley. Maybe the best way forward is to put Google Calendar everywhere and just fin...
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Monday, May 14, 2007

Any DeskNow users out there?

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DeskNow has calendar-sharing server software for Mac, Windows and Linux. It requires Java and MySQL, and before I install all this as well ...
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Java mobile reboot: Where's the calendar?

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I'm not at JavaOne -- too much else to do -- but on first blush, Sun's reboot of mobile Java doesn't talk about calendaring on J...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Mylo on trial: $349 and no offline calendar?

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I'm curious what folks out there think of Sony's new Mylo , a "personal communicator" that draws much of its usefulness th...
Sunday, March 11, 2007

The evening after

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So much for the great Daylight Savings Time brouhaha. Now, back to improving calendar interoperability. Too bad the latter didn't get an...
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Saturday, March 03, 2007

Extended DST on Windows? No worries, mate

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Just the thing to liven up a Saturday night after the wife and kid are in bed: running the Extended Daylight Savings Time update on my Windo...
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Microsoft gets daylight savings act together

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There's now a central Web page at Microsoft with detailed instructions on updating Microsoft operating systems to deal with Extended Da...
Monday, February 12, 2007

USB cables = primitive synch

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Dave Winer : "USB cables are very primitive channels for synchronization. Way too limiting." Amen .
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Windows Mobile patch for Daylight Savings Time change

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Network World has a story this week about the newly-early arrival of Daylight Savings Time on March 11. Over on the microsoft.public.pocke...

Sign the Calendar Swamp Frappr map

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I've created a Frappr Map for Calendar Swamp. Sign in and give us a shout-out . Be sure to pick from the appropriate map pin, so we can ...
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Monday, January 29, 2007

Microsoft.com is being hammered

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I tried to get more information tonight about Windows Vista Calendar, but Microsoft.com is being hammered, so instead of reaching the Vista ...
Saturday, January 27, 2007

Hey Vista Calendar users! Are you able to sync with Windows Mobile?

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There's enough Windows Vista out there now for me to ask if Vista Calendar syncs with Windows Mobile calendars. Tonight I published an a...
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Friday, January 26, 2007

Calendar Swamp in Dreaming in Code

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Scott Rosenberg's new book, Dreaming in Code , gives Calendar Swamp a mention on 335. Since I started this blog in June 2005, interest ...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

SyncMyCal works better than GooSync

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This morning I have a new favorite: SyncMyCal . Thanks to whoever commented here and clued me in. SyncMyCal does everything GooSync does and...
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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Will the iPhone kill Internet sync, or will lack of Internet sync kill the iPhone?

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Ed Bott : "The biggest missing piece in the iPhone is its ability to sync calendars and e-mail effortlessly." I also liked Bott...
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Friday, January 12, 2007

Jewish calendar home automation

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Time It Right , home automation for the Jewish home: Never set another Shabbos clock! Time It Right™ - the ultimate in home automation fo...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Want to sync your Apple iPhone? Looks like you'll need to own Outlook or a Mac as well

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Gizmodo reports that "there won't be any WiFi or cellular data syncing, only sync-via-docking" for the iPhone. That will put ...
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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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