So Google Calendar is out, as I wrote before. Techcrunch has an in-depth report and Steve Rubel also likes it. Sure, there is the full integration with Gmail which could work great and Ajax, fine. So it is a Calendar 2.0. So is 30boxes. Here is the catch.
Google Calendar is beta (as everything from Google). It may work great with Gmail, but is that the first requirement for a calendar? If I want to try it, I want to try it completely and this means importing data AND export it. Let me put it in Outlook, iCal, heck, even 30boxes. Let me sync with my palm. Empower me to take my data with me (Steve Gillmor, Seth Goldstein are you listening). Sharing is fine, but I want to export.
Therefore, Calendar 2.0 but not Web 2.0.
(And just a side note: Where is the RSS button? Firefox recognizes a feed, but where is the button?)
Update: Maybe I was a bit quick on the draw here. After some digging and a pointer in the comments it seems that there is a real-time export. I knew there was export, but since I still use iCal on my home machine I need live updates. I still don’t like the amount of clicks I need to get to the RSS-feed and have not seen the glorified Gmail intergration.
Update 2: I played around with it a bit and must say, import of my iCal birthday-events was much smoother compared to 30 boxes where I was prompted to approve of every event (which sucked considering the amount of events).
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2 Comments
mahlon
Are you sure you can’t export and share with other apps?
I thought I saw both public and private RSS and iCal feeds, but I could be mistaken.
More here:
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=34576
Narendra
yes, yes, yes. at 30boxes we want your calendar data and your profile to go anywhichway you want it.
heck, we want you to hack our UI and our themes.
it is the open piece that is going to make this exciting.
this isn’t about redoing outlook and have gmail recognize invites!!