Google Calendar is live and it rocks
Posted Apr 13th 2006 2:45AM by Jordan Running
Filed under: Office, Web services, Google
You read
that right. Google Calendar is finally—finally!—live. Somewhat
surprisingly, it's dropped the "CL2" moniker it had during development, and very unsurprisingly the logo says
BETA. Brad Hill over at the Unofficial Google Weblog has written up a nice review of
Google Calendar in which he says "it rocks," it's "brain-dead simple to use," and "as of
today I have used Yahoo! Calendar for the last time." I've given it a few pokes and though it would be perhaps too
bold of me to predict that Google Calendar will do for web-based calendars what Gmail did for webmail, I will say that
it's a great piece of work and suddently Yahoo! has a lot of catching up to do. Head over to TUGW for Brad's full
review or go straight to calendar.google.com to get started. That is, as
long as the site's not completely hosed by the time you read this.
Tags: calendar, cl2, gcal, gcalendar, google, googlecalendar, web20, yahoo
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
4-13-2006 @ 3:41AM
duke said...
how'd you know i have breakfast at tiffany's ?
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4-13-2006 @ 4:13AM
moulari said...
The last thing i need to completely get rid of Outlook is PocketPC Scny over SyncML or whatever. Or did i overlook something - is this already possible.
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4-13-2006 @ 8:18AM
Fabian said...
Unfortunately it seems the public demand is too strong for the servers at the moment. I've been trying to access Google Calendar all day now, and so far I've not gotten access.
Okay maybe it's because I'm trying from overseas, who knows. But I'm excited to have a new toy to play with. And I'm still searching for a good calendar app. ;-)
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4-13-2006 @ 8:22AM
shadekh said...
While google calendar is rather good, its inability to sync with outlook or exchange servers is a liability. I have a pocket pc, a phone and an ipod all synced to my outlook, exsuring i never ever miss an appointment. Google calendar synced as well would seriously rock......
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4-13-2006 @ 9:29AM
Cody said...
Been working with it all morning... So far it seems to be just what I have been waiting for. Intigration with Gmail could be better though.
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4-13-2006 @ 10:03AM
Nathan said...
Google where is the rss?
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4-13-2006 @ 10:13AM
Ivan said...
So what did Gmail for webmail?
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4-13-2006 @ 11:22AM
Ivan Kandi said...
What a nicely done app. I like how they set it up so all you have to do is keep writing without needing to grab the mouse click on the date then another click to select the time and finally the last click to submit the entry.
I like the way the quick add works, i think its brilliant and very innovative.
Im just hoping that Google will do more then just slap the calendar into a personalized google page. I can't click anything nor knowing what the shedule look like for that particular date.
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4-13-2006 @ 1:24PM
Ian said...
How is it really different from 30boxes?
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4-13-2006 @ 1:38PM
Guillermo said...
Bah, let me know when Safari is supported and I'll give it a shot.
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4-13-2006 @ 2:10PM
reuben said...
i have a question about duplicate events... i would like to be able to click and drag one event to another day and have google calendar give me the option of moving it or simply copying the event to another day. because if you select the event and drag it to another day, google calendar will only MOVE the event and wont ASK to either COPY or MOVE it.
also, when you edit the event under 'more actions/duplicate event' there is no way to select every monday, or every tuesday, etc... anyone know any ways around these quirks in repeating events?
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4-13-2006 @ 2:16PM
Arc|Angel said...
This is great.. I'm much happier than I was with the cal for thunderbird and I can import my works outlook calendar which is great ..
To the person above.. the rss is under shared.. there is two forms of rss.. one for public one for private.
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4-13-2006 @ 2:40PM
tpp said...
No printing, other than a simple browser print. This is probably make it a non-starter for me, for now.
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4-13-2006 @ 5:23PM
tayete said...
No todo list...I'll wait for it...
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4-14-2006 @ 11:07PM
Blake said...
Very nice, i'm much pleased :)
Now they just need to link all their services together with one easy to naviagte system.
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4-25-2006 @ 2:07PM
Jferth said...
Downloaded it this morning, love the features thus far but...I agree with Blake, I don,t think you have the ability to "place" the new calender on my Google Homepage (beside my DownloadSquad link).
I also hope they will make it possible to sync with my Palm Treo datebook application (without having to go thru Outlook).
Overall, I like it alot!
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5-14-2006 @ 5:25PM
Matt said...
This looks like it may be a great app someday. I think it needs to be able to print in a variety of standard planner formats.
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5-18-2006 @ 1:32PM
LastHope said...
Do you want to sync both ways between Google Calendar and Outlook?
Try RemoteCalendars plugin for Outook 2003!
http://sourceforge.net/projects/remotecalendars
Here are all the instructions to set up correctly the two-way sync ;)
http://remotecalendars.sourceforge.net/google.htm
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6-12-2006 @ 11:07PM
Neal Saferstein said...
Will they make it possible to sync with my Palm Treo?
Neal Saferstein
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5-30-2008 @ 5:33PM
matta said...
gmail and its calendar,
I admire every code and pixel of these aplications.
http://www.oral.com.tr
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