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, October 20, 2012

Bye-bye, Tungle

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From TechCrunch in September: RIM To Shut Down Tungle.Me, Team Will Focus On BlackBerry 10 Calendar App.  Read the comments to get a glimpse...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Mobile phone "fixes" frustrate consumers

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This story from June shouldn't surprise anyone:  People Frustrated With Online Smartphone 'Fixes' . As mobile carrier growth s...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

TonidoPlug: Platform for a low-cost calendar server?

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I'm still looking for a low-cost, low-power, quiet calendar server, and may have found a candidate: the Tonido Plug . Click around until...
Thursday, August 09, 2012

State of the Calendar Swamp 2012: I join the CalConnect board

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The purpose of this blog (now more than seven years old) has been to promote awareness of the state of calendar interoperability. It is my p...
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Friday, August 03, 2012

No searching at iCloud.com!

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Amazing but true: You can't search for anything within your iCloud calendar. Instead, go to your settings for Calendar on your iPad or ...
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Thursday, August 02, 2012

Is the Open Data Protocol cause for celebration?

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Did any calendar interop geeks out there notice the May announcement of the Open Data Protocol ? More importantly, does it matter to us cale...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

A leading calendar swamps itself

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Google manages to swamp its own calendar . Fail!
Friday, April 13, 2012

Publishing free/busy info in Outlook 2007 (or iCloud for that matter)

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As I ramp up my Outlook 2007 mad skillz (hah), I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong when trying to publish my free/busy inf...
Friday, March 23, 2012

How do I get Outlook to subscribe to an iCloud calendar?

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I've turned the paradigm on its head. Usually people want iCloud to subscribe to (or more usually, sync with) their Outlook calendar. I,...
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Friday, February 24, 2012

iCloud embraced. But it's still a silo

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A commenter to Calendar Swamp notes great success with iCloud, and so, after a rough start , do I. First, the comment on my earlier post, fr...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

EFF adds muscle to fight against time zone database lawsuit

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)  adds its voice -- and legal resources -- to those opposing a copyright infringement lawsuit again...
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...
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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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