Friday April 14, 2006 02:24

Google Calendar: Love at first sight

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Trying google calendar now, and all that I can say is that it’s a very cool piece of software. As usual, it’s another beta software from google, but people around the world enjoy using their software. This might just be the same as in FLOSS, where software with version < 1.0 and beta releases, being used everywhere, from desktops to servers and datacenters. Software are moving from being standalone, networked application, and now many are migrating to the web. This is what Tim O’ Reily define as Web 2.0..

What I like about the calendar, apart from being simple and ajax based (like few other google products), is that it allow people to actually share the calendar with others, with few access level. Could this be Microsoft Exchange killer? Who knows..







5 Responses to Google Calendar: Love at first sight

fadli

April 14th, 2006 at 2:47 am

seems Zimbra do better job. right now la
if we can insert ics files in the calender, it is better

shakir

April 14th, 2006 at 3:01 am

Zimbra for me is more to a groupware stuff. For that I prefer egroupware (sure, this one doesn’t come with ajax). For a simple but powerful yet useful calendaring, my vote goes to Google Calendar

shakir

April 14th, 2006 at 3:16 am

been reading this (but haven’t tried it);

http://slashdot.org/articles/06/04/13/045247.shtml

and yes, it support .ics :)

fadli

April 14th, 2006 at 3:17 am

Not much features add in it except ajax. they can do lots more with ajax actually.
currently deleting or expanding an events is not soo pleasing. if u ever use zimbra calender then u ll feel google calender is still primitive.

shakir

April 14th, 2006 at 3:54 am

I take it as a matter of personal taste, and need. I like it simple, and that’s all. verybody wins, hehe

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