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, December 08, 2011

Google Calendar's Mac sync woes

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Via the Spanning Sync blog , I learned that deleting an event on the Mac OS X calendar no longer can automatically delete a synced event on ...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

iCloud: Not worth any more of my time

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I'm simply going to ignore iCloud as another inadequate calendar-sharing solution for now -- even between iPhones. My results have been ...
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Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Lighting 1.0 arrives -- is it in time?

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Lightning, a Mozilla calendar now incorporated into its email program, is now shipping . We'll have to see if it's adopted in suffic...
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Friday, November 04, 2011

HTML 5 time element project needs developers' help to drain the swamp

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Attention calendar software developers: For those hoping HTML 5 will help drain the calendar swamp, check out this Webmonkey story . Then, g...
Monday, October 31, 2011

The U.S. is out of sync with Europe (more than usual)

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Executive Road Warrior reports on the increasingly erratic fluctuations between the U.S. and Europe in when they implement and remove Dayli...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

iCloud and Windows Outlook woes reported

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I'm still working through my use of iCloud -- my corner case involved making my Apple ID password more secure and getting River to upgra...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

Time Zone Database back up at new ICANN home

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The Associated Press reports that ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is now hosting the Time Zone Database whi...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

iCloud Day 1: First steps

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I couldn't let this day end without weighing in on iCloud, since it could drain a portion of the Swamp. I avoided the installation probl...
Saturday, October 08, 2011

CalConnect: Time zone database outage "will cause significant harm"

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The time zone database crisis grows as CalConnect, the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium, calls for reinstating the database . Key quot...
Thursday, October 06, 2011

Time zone database is down

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Via Stephen Colebourne , there's word that the maintainer of an important database of worldwide time zones took it down based on a copyr...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Will HTML 5 make calendar sharing even swampier?

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With all the attention on HTML 5 as a future software development platform, this critique by SD Times columnist Al Hilwa is cause for conce...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Mobaganda: Giving Evite the slip

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Evite has the same problem lots of different Web services have. You have to register with the service and log in to use it. Then it spams yo...
Thursday, September 08, 2011

Why don't Facebook and Google share event and calendar info?

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With all the hoopla about how you can or can't take your friend list from one social network to another, I'd like to know when or if...
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Monday, July 18, 2011

Power grid test could disrupt some clocks

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Time keeps on ticking, ticking, ticking, into the future. Except when it won't, according to this proposal . As if we don't have eno...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Schema.org

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I just learned of this page at schema.org. Could be helpful to someone reading this.
Saturday, June 25, 2011

Calamander acquired & shuttered

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Easy come, easy go. One of the most recent calendar-sharing service startups, Calamander, has been acquired and the service halted . Produ...
Monday, June 06, 2011

MobileMe reboot to ship for free this fall

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If I read this live blog of this morning's WWDC keynote , Apple MobileMe will return, totally rewritten, this fall, for free. I stand re...
Monday, April 04, 2011

Tell Salesforce to improve its Outlook sync

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Currently "under consideration" at Salesforce.com: Supporting sync of recurring events with Microsoft Outlook . Salesforce will im...
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Facebook now supports hCalendar microformat

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Last month Facebook added support for the hCalendar microformat to all events created inside Facebook. This will help calendar interoperabi...
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Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Old Sidekick calendars to hit sharing brick wall May 31

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On May 31, the troubled T-Mobile Sidekick phones based on the Danger platform will no longer be able to share calendars with the cloud or ...
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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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