Google Calendar is Up Thursday 2006-04-13
Today Google Calendar is up and running, and you may centralize your events handling system. Over the years, many different solutions have been presented, to solve the problem of group and personal calendars, that you can reach from anywhere. The first networked calendars were for company internal use, so that work groups could note meetings and other important dates. Later calendars, from among others Microsoft and Netscape, used Internet based HTML calendars. More ore less sophisticated, they allowed for private calendars, that could be used also by groups. The private calendar is naturally used for private events, as visiting aunt Molly or the dentist, while group calendars knits together project groups.
Google’s new web based calendar takes the technique of earlier calendars a step further, by using an web 2.0 Ajax approach, which makes the user interface fast and easy to use. You can customize the calendar in a lot of ways. There are setting for the presentation, such as what days to show, on which day the week starts and what time format you want use. You can also choose what i kind of notifications you want from the calendar, and how long time before the event it should be sent to you. You can get notifications by email or by SMS. The latter can only be done via certain mobile service providers, that Google has an agreement with. Living in Sweden, I seem to be unable to get the SMS notifications.
You can invite your work group members, friends or family to view your calendar and/or send invitations to it.
If you let anyone see your calendar, you’re at risk for receiving unwanted spam invitations. So you better setup the calender for moderated invitations, which means you have to accept the invitation before it reaches the calendar.
To use the calendar, you will need a Google account, which is free.
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- Author : Petit
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