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, October 15, 2010

CalConnect publishes introduction to Internet calendaring

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CalConnect, the consortium promoting Internet calendar standards, has published an introduction to Internet calendaring .
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Why not Apple iCal for Windows?

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I'd welcome a version of Apple iCal for Windows. So would Zack Whittaker at ZDNet .
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Calendar of the Future

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While we struggle in the swamp of today's incomplete calendar interoperability, others daydream about -- what? Rip-and-replace what we ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Hallelujah! Bump now lets iPhones share events

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It's a joyous day here at the Swamp. Bump for the iPhone now allows direct sharing of events with other iPhones . Stay tuned for some fo...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Rain in the clouds

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From the Spanning Sync blog : "Data loss and corruption is a serious problem for Google Apps users. Browse through the Google Apps he...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

The Scheduled Web, and more on thin CalDAV servers

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It's been a quiet month but two things caught my attention ... within minutes of each other: Nova Spivack's blog post from May 6: ...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Sharing calendars via Facebook? Tighten your settings

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If you use Facebook to share calendar info with others, you must read my first column for Windows Secrets, all about how to tighten your Fac...
Friday, May 14, 2010

Sorry Nexus One phone owners: No .ics support in calendar

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Calendar Review reports that Android-based calendars on the Google can't handle meeting invites sent by .ics file -- a standard way peo...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

hCalendar data now appears in some Google search results

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I noted with interest an April 28 post at the Microformats blog, stating that Google now supports hCalendar. This Google Webmaster Central ...
Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Developers can't access Android calendar data, but iPhone situation improves

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For a company that boasts about how open it is, Google has just done a great about-face on one front: calendar-sharing. According to Fabrizi...
Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Tungle adds directories, group meetings

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Anyone reading this using Tungle? If so, you'll be interested in today's news from the company. The TechCrunch post I'm pointin...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

GooSync free version returns

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The free version of GooSync is back on the market six months after it was discontinued in favor of a paid version. GooSync is a server bas...
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Monday, April 12, 2010

Eben Moglen sounds alarm about cloud-based calendar sharing

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Free software advocate Eben Moglen raises troubling questions about placing one's calendar in the cloud.
Saturday, March 27, 2010

Now Up-To-Date company closing

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Now Up-To-Date, an obscure calendar/contact management system for Mac and Windows, is heading into history with the recent announcement tha...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

iSchedule draft published at the IETF

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From July 2008 : The iSchedule Technical Committee will develop a proposal for the Internet Scheduling Protocol (iSchedule) which will sp...
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Friday, March 12, 2010

Amahi home network calendar sharing

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FLOSS Weekly just posted a show about Amahi , a home network calendar sharing server. It requires a PC running Linux, and sounds like a sum...
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....
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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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