Google Calendar Beta Available
April 13, 2006
I found out from Matt today that Google Calendar is now available! Matt has been waiting for this for awhile. If you have been too, go get your account, it’s easy and worth it.
The interface on this new product is great, very similar to GMail or any of the other Google services. However, I do have a couple complaints.
They did not implement any sort of desktop plugin for synchronization. I’ve been playing with Airset for a few months now, and it has this functionality. As a guy who needs to use our institutional Sun Java Enterprise System Calendar Server to interoperate with co-workers, Outlook is my glue, and desktop sync would make my life easier.
My other complaint is that there is basically no integration between Calendar and GMail. I want similar functionality to how Zimbra is able to detect dates inside emails you receive and allow right click capable add to calendar. If you haven’t seen this yet, go watch their demo, it’s slick.
OK, so these are frosting, but I expect perfection from Google! I’m sure these features and more will be slowly rolled into the product over time.
Tags: airset, calendar, gmail, google, google calendar, Sun Java Enterprise System Calendar Server, web 2.0, web20, zimbra
Comments
One Response to “Google Calendar Beta Available”
Got something to say?
[…] I just signed up for the trial version of Google Spreadsheets. At this point the screenshots look pretty cool, I’m sure the interface will be similarly sweet. With Writely purchased and calendar launched, I’m basically free of Microsoft Office all together these days. […]