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Google Calendar finally went live late last night. I was able to login using my gmail
account and poke around for a few minutes. The interface looks really nice, and a lot of the simplicity of the other Google services seem to be in place. Two things that were immediately dissapointing: no Safari support (albeit this seems to be the norm lately rather than the exception) and no custom recurring settings for events. If you have a class, work or any type of event that doesn’t follow a M-F, MWF or TTR pattern, you are out of luck. This was a bit surprising as nearly every other calendar app allows you to customize how often your even recurs.
On the positive side, there are some really interesting features that are begging to be explored. Calendar Sharing, Invitations, Gmail Integration, Mobile Access and Event Publishing all sound especially promising. I also read that it will import iCal and MS Outlook calendar files so we may be nearing the day that your calendar will be available to you wherever you are. Provided that wherever has internet access I supose.
It’s free and it’s beta and it’s ready to be toyed with. Go have a look! If you don’t have a Gmail account, get in touch with me and I’ll send you an invite.
UPDATE: After some additional tinkering today, I found that you actually do have the ability to schedule events with custom recurrence. One fault down!
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If you don’t have a gmail account please admit it here, so we can all laugh at you.
Seriously though, I just read this book called “The Tipping Point”. http://www.gladwell.com/tippingpoint/index.html
I’m not going to summarize here, in fact I wouldn’t be suprised if a lot of people on this site have already read it. I was thinking that you guys are a good example of what the book would call a Maven, people who find out about new things, and learn about them, and then inform others(similar to an early adopter). There are other people called Connectors who link people together into social networks. Anyway, it seems Google is aware of these groups of people, Mavens find out what Google is up to, and connectors make other people aware of it with the invites option. A weblog like this might allow someone to be a little bit of both. Anyone else read this book? What do you think?
Surprisingly enough, I finally do have a gmail account!
And no I haven’t read that book, but it sounds fascinating, it’ll be on my short list for purchase.