Calendar Swamp

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

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Ill-mannered app disables Google calendar sync

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According to the Spanning Sync blog, bad behavior from a single application was causing all syncs to and from Google Calendar to fail for c...
Friday, January 15, 2010

Plancast: So far, yet another patch of swamp

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So after reading Dave Winer's plug for Plancast, I signed up. This helps me how? I can visit this site and see friends' upcoming e...
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010

The always-in-sync question

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While we try to get all calendars to share with each other -- a struggle with no end in sight -- progress occurred in another area: how to g...
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Power Search fills Android calendar search gap

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My quick scan of news about the Google Nexus One phone reveals no word of in-calendar search in this supposedly greatest Android phone ever....
Thursday, December 31, 2009

Getting categorial about the iPhone calendar

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Following up on the update to my last post , the native iPhone calendar can assign new events to a category, but only if that category is cr...
Monday, December 28, 2009

Nuevasync does handheld tricks with multiple Google calendars

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Kudos to Nuevasync to close out the year and match the kudos I gave the company at the start of 2009. This time, Nuevasync allows Windows M...
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Sunday, December 27, 2009

State of the Swamp, 2010

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There's still so much swamp to be drained. Latest case in point: I'm preparing to attend my first Consumer Electronics Show in fiv...
Sunday, November 08, 2009

Calendar as marketing tool

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You know those free printed calendars we come across this time of the year? Now they're going online. Tylenol has one at tylenolcalendar...
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Friday, November 06, 2009

Droid calendar search: FAIL (Android too)

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I looked at a Motorola Droid this morning, and it shares the same flaw as Google's Android operating system: you can't search throug...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Opening up Outlook 2010

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Will calendar sharing benefit from having the file format for Microsoft Outlook 2010 be open ? I don't know. Time will tell.
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Monday, October 19, 2009

GooSync sinks free version

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The free version of GooSync is discontinued as of today. My SwampDrain sensibilities are unhappy and take back one (-1) of the two points ...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Apology of the week

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Microsoft apologizes and says it was able to recover "most, if not all" the lost calendar data for users of its Sidekick service....
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

How to get events into social networks

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With the proliferation of social networks, services to help publish events across them are a good idea. Calendar Review notes one such servi...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

Danger Will Robinson

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Cloud Calendar Fail: Sidekick Owners Get Bad News — Phone Data Is Gone Forever . Danger lives up to its name, by an unintended route.
Friday, September 11, 2009

Tungle improved

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Tungle is making some welcome improvements ; worth checking out.
Monday, August 24, 2009

Sync between iPhone calendar and Google Calendar

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I'm not sure how I missed it before, but I've now successfully used CalDAV sync between my iPhone and my Google Calendar. However, w...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Yahoo! Calendar syncs with iPhone

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New from Yahoo!: Sync your Yahoo! Calendar with the iPhone . No desktop Apple iCal required (never did figure out how to dispense with it in...
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Monday, August 17, 2009

FuseCal goes dark

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Synchronizing calendars is a tough problem -- tougher than mere interoperability, tougher than simply publish-and-subscribe. Those who under...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Searching calendars on the iPhone

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Basically, if you want to search your calendar on the iPhone, you'd better be using the native calendar app. Why? Because other calendar...
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Friday, July 03, 2009

DAViCAL: Another open-source CalDAV server

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A new open-source CalDAV server is making progress: DAViCAL now implements CalConnect's Freebusy Read URL. Written by New Zealander And...
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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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