Calendar Swamp

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

Friday, June 29, 2007

iPhone day: Calendar interop picture to brighten soon?

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Steve Jobs, quoted by John Markoff : "There’s already corporations who have been running pilots hooking up to Exchange servers and othe...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

The Windows Mobile problem persists

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While a new generation of Windows Mobile devices heads for release, the current generation is mired in the calendar swamp. That is, if you d...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

iPhone, Google Gears a match made in heaven?

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Graeme Mathison : "Here’s my prediction (which isn’t exactly too far fetched, I don’t think): the iPhone and Google Gears are a match...
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iPhone + AJAX good, Spanning Sync would be better

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With Apple announcing that the iPhone will run AJAX apps , it seems clear that Apple expects a number of iPhone users to rely on Web calend...
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Monday, June 11, 2007

Simple Sharing Extensions update

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Remember Simple Sharing Extensions , Microsoft's proposed technology that, among other things, would let us easily cut and paste events...

Remember the Milk becomes first free Web calendar to go offline

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Jumping on the Google Gears announcement on May 31, Ajaxian reports that online calendar site Remember the Milk has become the first such f...
Friday, June 08, 2007

Messaging News puts calendar interop on its cover

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Kudos to Messaging News for making calendar interoperability the cover story of its May/June 2007 issue. Recommended reading. And to those o...
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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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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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