Google Calendar has gone live, CNET has the story, and TechCrunch has a quick review. I’ve been playing around with it some tonight and I’m impressed so far. Importing from Outlook is handy for me compared to 30Boxes, but I’d like an export to Outlook as well.
They’ve done some nice stuff with sharing, creating multiple calendars, and allowing for RSS subscriptions and for others to view your calendar as a web page. It’s good to see Google be very open with this product. The integration with Gmail could be the highlight for heavy Gmail users.
In true Google style you can also search all public calendars which an interesting kind of sharing and voyeurism, but it’d also be handy to search your friend’s calendars for a specific event.
Unfortunately for 30Boxes, which I’ve enjoyed thus far, Google Calendar is probably far enough ahead that I switch over to using it. At least giving it a serious shot….
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No liink from Gmail? RSS feeds don’t yet work .. even in Google reader.
Great looking product, but they made a mistake by designing around importing/exporting. Outlook holds my calendar and contact info. Plaxo synchs all of it between home and work and finds duplicates. I think google calendar is cool, but it needs to be pulled out of the web 2.0 realm and into the “I use it everyday because it works seamlessly with my other stuff” realm.
Hi,
I did a post about the google calendar in my blog and started using it the same day. It’s most awesome power lies with it’s integration into gmail. It already shows signs of this by offering to add a meeting to one of the emails i’ve sent specifying a date for a meeting.
Give google some time and this will be used by everyone