New: Google Calendar

Google Calendar has officially gone live at calendar.google.com. A tour of Calendar is available here. You need a Gmail account to use it.

All Ajax stuff behind .

The Key features:

  • Text recognition - In adding an event, or detecting a new event from Gmail, Calendar automatically detects event-specific words and suggests the adding of a new event with data auto-structured.
  • Manage Multiple Calendars - set up multiple calendars (work, personal, etc) and view them separately or together.
  • Heavy Gmail integration - Gmail recognizes when messages include event information, so when you get emailed about an event, you can add it to Google Calendar with just a couple clicks. Google Calendar links on the right side of the Gmail page.
  • Sharing - Calendars can be shared with others, and you can subscribe to others’ shared calendars. Read/write permissions can be granted on a per user basis. Calendars can be published via a web page or via RSS, so readers do not need to be on the Google Calendar platform.
  • Importing - You can import events from other calendar programs, including Yahoo Calendar and Microsoft Outlook. Click “Settings,” then “Import Calendar”.
  • Calendar Search

The key driver of Google Calendar is clearly going to be the Gmail integration. For users of Gmail’s web interface, it will be extremely easy to keep track of Calendar items on Google as well.

 

3 Comments

  • Beautiful! I like the Quick add feature. Import/ Export features would be value added! One of the best implementations of Ajax facilities I have seen.

  • Oh, wait, there is an import feature that work nicely!

  • Looks great, though when I want to invite a guest (myself, other email address) to an event, it says it has mailed the guest, but the email never arrives. No matter what emailaddress I add. (or browser I use).



    It looks promising. It also integrates with google maps. In europe that's not that useful yet, but you can see where this goes to of course: handheld, your calendar visible, you can see where you need to be, when and where and with whom.

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