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, September 27, 2007

The curious case of Remember the Milk

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Lots of folks -- myself included -- mistakenly described Remember the Milk as another online calendar. In fact, it only manages tasks. For ...
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Oy vey: SyncML is now OMA DS

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Never mind that synchronization has never been more popular, or more marketable to businesses . The fine folks at the Open Mobile Alliance r...
Monday, September 17, 2007

iPod Touch: Update contacts, not calendar?

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I was surprised to learn ( via Bill Palmer ) that iPod Touch owners can add contacts, even though they can't add calendar entries. Why d...
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Everybody Has a Share

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Calendar Swamp readers may find my new project worth following. Everybody Has a Share: Myth, Madness and Momentum in the Digital Decade is ...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Chandler hits preview release

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News from Chandler, the open-source calendar software effort : "The Chandler project has hit our Preview milestone! We now have public...
Tuesday, September 11, 2007

The Apple iPod Touch: Opportunity lost

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Apple continues to treat its iCal calendar poorly . The new iPod Touch calendar is read-only, even though the iPod Touch would seem like a g...
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Sunday, August 26, 2007

Location and calendar sharing

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James McGovern : "One of the things that I would love to see the folks over at Microsoft and Zimbra address is how calendaring works i...
Sunday, August 19, 2007

MonoCalendar

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Listening to a podcast about the Mono project , I began wondering if there's a calendar built on top of Mono. Viola, there is. MonoCalen...
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Monday, August 06, 2007

WSJ on calendar sharing

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From Saturday's Wall Street Journal : "Marriage often requires coping with the loss of some individuality, whether it's adoptin...
Thursday, August 02, 2007

Offline mobile calendars: Now what?

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In InformationWeek, Mitch Wagner writes : "I had a terrible time synching [Mac OSX ] iCal to my Palm Treo. Other people report the proc...
Friday, July 27, 2007

Local calendars are dead, he says

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Paul Thurott : "The email application is dead. So, too, is the local calendar application." Someone needs to notify the mobile pho...
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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Any hosted Exchange customers out there?

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Today I read a post from Matt Hartley about DSLExtreme's hosted Exchange service, and wondered if anyone was using it to sync their cal...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Stewart Alsop's solution doesn't work for most

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Stewart Alsop (full disclosure: former boss of mine) is sick of the sorry state of calendar and contact sync . Unfortunately, his solution -...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007

iPhone calendar sync woes

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Paul Thurott : "It's clear that, on Windows at least (Apple's biggest market), iPhone sync is horribly broken. Regardless of t...
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Another Outlook/Google Calendar horror story

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I'm sure Microsoft Outlook works fine for lots of folks, but stories like this keep me looking for alternatives.
Saturday, July 07, 2007

Vista Calendar/Windows Mobile: Microsoft's Web site is no help

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Did Microsoft drop the ball on providing sync between Vista Calendar and Windows Mobile 6? From the current Windows Mobile Device Center pa...
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Windows Mobile 6: How does it stack up?

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In my never-ending quest to sync my Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC calendar to anything other than Outlook, I came across LapLink Software...
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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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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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