Google Calendar Is Live
Who else but Philipp scoops you up with some screenshots and first hand thoughts?
- Seeing the big picture
With Google Calendar, you can see your friends’ and family’s schedules right next to your own; quickly add events mentioned in Gmail conversations or saved in other calendar applications; and add other interesting events that you find online.- Sharing events and calendars
You decide who can see your calendar and which details they can view. Planning an event? You can create invitations, send reminders and keep track of RSVPs right inside Google Calendar. Organizations can promote events, too.- Staying on schedule
You can set up automatic event reminders, including SMS notifications, and instantly bring up anything on your calendar with the built-in search tool.
Features
- Calendar Sharing: Set up a calendar for your company softball team, and share it with the whole roster. (Your shortstop will never forget about practice again.) Or share with friends and family so you can view each other’s schedules side by side.
- Invitations: Create event invitations, send them to friends, and keep track of people’s responses and comments, all in one place. Your friends can receive your invitation and post responses even if they don’t use Google Calendar themselves.
- Quick Add: Click anywhere on your calendar where an event belongs (or use the Quick Add link), and start typing. Google Calendar understands whole phrases like “Brunch with mom at Java Cafe 11am on Saturday,” and will pop new events right into your agenda.
- Gmail Integration: Add your friend’s Super Bowl party to your calendar without ever leaving your Gmail inbox. Gmail now recognizes events mentioned in emails.
- Search: Find the date of the Baxter family BBQ (you knew it was sometime this summer). Or, search public calendars to discover new events you’re interested in and add them to your own calendar.
- Mobile Access: Receive event reminders and notifications on your mobile phone.
- Event Publishing: Share your organization’s events with the world. Learn more with our Event Publisher Guide.
Check out Google’s Overview
Join The Fun
See Philipp’s review
C|Net has a video about it
It seems like the Gmail integration is still being rolled out because I opened a message containing a date and time of an event, but saw nothing new. Still pretty cool, though.
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I like what they’ve done… Cool implementation!
One thing puzzles me, though: in the top left corner of the calendfar page, there’s four links; links to “Google”, “Gmail”, “Calendar” (Duh!!), and “More”. I understand all but the calendar link… why link to a page where you already are???
And what I don’t get: Google Reader is absent! Nor is it mentioned on the “more” page or anywhere else. Users simply need to make their own links to it… Odd!
And when are they doing the same kind of thing to other pages, like Google home, Google Reader, Gmail, etc??? I’d like these links on all their pages, for easy switching between their services.
Anyway, Calendar is HOT; fast, easy, good looking… it’s all Google!
Comment by FreeBee | April 13, 2006
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The Calendars section in the left hand pane is collapsible. Why? Are they planning on putting something else below it?
Comment by RichB | April 15, 2006
Calendar Wizard 4.1 is a CorelDRAW add-on to create professional quality calendar layouts of various styles and levels of complexity.
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Comment by yao | May 7, 2006