Calendar Swamp

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

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

TidyCal

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This blog has always been about calendar and schedule sharing, but apparently, Calendly pioneered something called the calendar management a...
Monday, February 26, 2024

That calendar-sharing service you use may be harvesting your personal scheduling data for artificial intelligence purposes

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A Facebook friend of mine just posted that "Calendly is now data harvesting for 3rd party AI features. Guess it's time to cancel it...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

CalDAV remains the standard, but compliance still varies

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Around the 1:55:00 mark, this week's Windows Weekly podcast hosts discuss CalDAV, but we are reminded that although CalDAV is a standar...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

David Mills, R.I.P.

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I never met David Mills, but like you I've been a beneficiary of his work, which underlies calendar and schedule sharing on the internet...
Saturday, January 20, 2024

Cupla rates five shared calendar apps for couples - you'll never guess who won

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I guess it's okay to do this kind of marketing these days. Cupla, which I just posted about, posted a comparison of five different shar...

A romantic shared calendar for iOS and Android

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Romance is in the air - courtesy of a new shared calendar app called Cupla , featured in yesterday's Wall Street Journal . It's $2.5...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Long lost and lamented: private, portable calendars

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Last Sunday's episode of Ask the Tech Guys (#2006)  includes an interesting discussion about the fact that most modern mobile calendars ...
Sunday, October 15, 2023

A tribute to Dave Thewlis

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Dave Thewlis retired early this year as executive director of CalConnect, the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium, on whose board I serve ...

Tools for time zone management

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No sooner do people start talking about sharing calendars and schedules, then they have to deal with time zones. This Wall Street Journal st...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

Calender privacy 101

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From February 2023: The horror of realizing everyone can see your work celandar entries . Yes there are ways to prevent this from happening!
Thursday, September 28, 2023

R,I.P. Ribose

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Calendar sharing continues to decline outside of Big Tech silos. I just received an email that Ribose is shutting down on November 1.
Sunday, September 10, 2023

More calendar helper - ad infinitum

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So email is email and it pretty much works. But calendar and schedule sharing remains something that often requires Buying Something Else .
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Google Calendar - Outlook love

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I don't use either Google Calendar or Outlook, so I don't care much aboutr this news item from May. But what about you? Is this a br...
Monday, April 24, 2023

iPhone-Android love. But calendaring love?

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The Wall Street Journal says it's all love between iPhone and Android. But they left out calendaring and scheduling from this August 202...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Client-side encryption in Google Calendar

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 Will this impact interoperablity? This story does not say. 
Sunday, January 22, 2023

Excuse me!!! Steve Martin suffers with Apple treatment of time zones

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Well-known banjo player Steve Martin appeared on Leo Laporte's The Tech Guy radio show on November 19, 2022, where among other things he...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

Calender spam pours into Google Calendar

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Android Police has the story: "Apparently, the crafty integration that lets Google Calendar automatically create events based off of c...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

Etiquette of calendar-scheduling services

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I just came across this February 2022 essay in the Wall Street Journal about the etiquette of calendar scheduling. It's probably true t...
Thursday, September 08, 2022

Microsoft "solutions" come and go

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Just another cloudy day in the walled garden. Microsoft May Be Planning To Discontinue This Meeting-Coordination Service
Friday, September 02, 2022

Fixing calendaring for fun and profit -- yet again. We pay the bill.

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Over on Facebook, Brad Kellmeyer writes : "Marissa Mayer's venture Smart Contacts is moving into Facebook's first office locati...
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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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