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Google Calendar: All Your Appointments Are Belong To Us
Google launched their much-anticipated Google Calendar today, dubbed CL2 (in beta, of course) and I gave it a quick spin this afternoon.
There have been many cries for a decent online calendaring solution — so the question is: does Google Calendar deliver? Well, there’s certainly plenty to like about it. It has a slick interface and it’s fast (at switching between pages, anyway). But while it contains many features we would come to expect from the Big G, in this instance beta really does mean beta.
There are those features that I would consider stock standard in a calendaring app these days, just because they have been implemented in so many other online calendars (some better than others). Google Calendar has all of them, plus some other nice-to-haves:
- layering of local and remote (iCal) calendars, and colour-coding of these calendars
- sharing calendars publicly or privately (ala CalendarHub)
- inviting people to events, publicly or privately (ala evite)
- notifications via cell phone or email (US-only from what I can tell)
- nice AJAX-y drag and drop of events
- calendars being made available in iCal/RSS (credit to Google for providing this, as many apps only offer import or export rather than a hosted feed, in an attempt to …
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