Google Calendar: What does it look like?

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Google Calendar: What does it look like?

by Nitin Badjatia Mar 8th 2006

Not only does Google want to own all your data, Google wants you to plan your life on a Google platform. As Google says, we must follow, right? Well, on both points, Google's intentions have remained a closely guarded secret until this week. Those as lofty as the Wall Street Journal reported on the PowerPoint mixup that exposed Google's file storage plans. Now we have leaked screenshots of the super-secret "CL2", or Google Calendar. Techcrunch scored the screens and they seem to validate that Google is building a expansive calendaring capability to augment the GMail platform. Like all things Google, the interface looks spartan, but heavily splashed with AJAX. It is also speculated that CL2 is a while away from gracing us lowly users. Until then, you'll have to plan your life on something else, like with a pen on paper or your hand.

Tags: AJAX, Calendar, CL2, Google

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

bryan ribas said 3:56PM on 3-08-2006

Untill the offer IMAP I am not getting a gmail account.

Jnetty said 4:12PM on 3-08-2006

#1 very un-useful comment.

I wonder if Google Calander could link up to a PDA application for synching? That would be awesome. Otherwise I have to put things on my PDA or Desktop and then also repeat them on Google.

tyler said 4:34PM on 3-08-2006

Hipcal will work better than pen/paper until we see CL2.
http://www.hipcal.com/

shadekh said 6:32AM on 3-09-2006

I too would love some kind of sync feature, otherwise this calendar really makes no sense to use over other freeware products or outlook. I have my calendar synched with my pda, my phone and my ipod, so there is hardly any time when i am not with my calendar. I dont see a need for this app if it cannot sync to any of these devices.

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