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, February 28, 2008

Microsoft gives blessing to an open-source calendar

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Looking over yesterday's flurry of Microsoft-related announcements, I noticed that SpikeSource has Microsoft's blessing to service a...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Book Review: Collaboration 2.0

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While at CalConnect XI, I met David Coleman, co-author (with Stewart Levine) of Collaboration 2.0: Technology and Best Practices for Success...
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Friday, February 22, 2008

Does Microsoft's new openness stop at Windows Mobile?

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Lots of new developer stuff at Microsoft's interoperability Web site , but not a word that I can find on improving access to Windows Mob...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Use Lotus Notes on Mac? Listen up

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I got an email from Tim Goggin, who writes: "We've just released PocketMac GoBetween for Lotus Notes , the first tool to allow Mac ...

CalConnect: A progress report

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As I said on Feb. 8, I was an invited guest to CalConnect Roundtable XI, the absolute worldwide nerve center of calendar interoperability e...
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Monday, February 18, 2008

Mac Leopard calendar sync issues

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According to the Spanning Sync blog, Apple's Leopard update to Mac OS X last year introduced some calendar sync bugs. An OS X update (10...
Sunday, February 17, 2008

Mozilla update

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In case you wonder what Mozilla's up to in the calendaring area, here's a January post from David Ascher .
Saturday, February 16, 2008

Backpack adding group calendars

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37Signals is adding group calendars to Backpack, its online "information organizer." The calendar feature currently costs $5 a mo...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

TimeBridge MyTime is a URL worth grabbing

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TimeBridge has a new feature called MyTime which provides a simple URL for your free/busy information. Go for it now and claim a simple URL ...
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Saturday, February 09, 2008

GooSync's adding tasks, so Google Calendar's next

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GooSync , the software that syncs Google Calendar with mobile phones and PDAs, just emailed its community that the company is seeking tester...
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Friday, February 08, 2008

Denmark's visionary free-busy sharing/calendar service

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Infrastructure drives productivity. Railroads helped the North win the U.S. Civil War. The U.S. Interstate Highway System helped the U.S. be...
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Microsoft-Yahoo! calendars "don't combine well"

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John Dvorak writes that the Yahoo! and Microsoft calendars "don't combine well." It's something I never really tested, be...
Thursday, January 31, 2008

Blog report: Exchange 2007 breaks some calendar sharing

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The Boycott Novell blog reports that a reader whose IT department upgraded from Microsoft Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 was no longer able...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

BlackBerry gets free/busy

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According to this , the BlackBerry platform will now support free/busy lookup from other people's calendars. Does this also mean it will...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Meanwhile, Mobile Java remains at the starting gate

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Remember when I complained that Mobile Java's relaunch wasn't paying attention to calendaring? Seven months later, nothing's im...

Chandler: A true who-done-it

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It's an open-source calendaring project whose title was inspired in part by mystery writer Raymond Chandler. But now the Chandler projec...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Microsoft's response to calendar competition

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Microsoft is doing just what I expected them to eventually: try to counter competitive calendars by expanding its mobile calendars to embrac...
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Saturday, December 22, 2007

Tasks inside calendars: How do they make one's time "busy"?

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How many of you manage your tasks inside your calendar? As of Office 2007, Bill Gates now does : "Before the 2007 Office release, I nev...
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Windows Live Calendar to get FeedSync?

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Kip Kniskern : "It looks like Calendar will be one of the first Windows Live applications to use FeedSync."
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Sync between Windows Live Calendar and Outlook available -- for a price

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A commenter to an earlier post pointed out that Microsoft does offer sync between Windows Live Calendar and Outlook, but it will cost you t...
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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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