Google Calendar
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Most people know about this already from the various news sites, but some screenshots have surfaced featuring Google’s secret calendar dubbed “CL2.” If the site still works, the original source was here, but I’ll also be mirroring the pics here.
Instead of letting my comments become lost in the sea on that blog, I thought I’d mention why it won’t be anything more than a web 2.0 experiment to me: PDA Syncronization. What’s the point of an online calendar if you can’t take it with you or have alarms? I’m not just talking about syncronization with my Pocket PC, but with a Palm as well. This site becomes a personal events calendar used only for online collaboration amongt family and friends. While it may be useful for organizing events, I don’t think it’s going to be something many will use as their day-to-day calendar. If you rely on a calendar, you probably already have a system worked out anyways. Google’s going to have to address import/export as well as mobility. If you’re one of the millions of people using Outlook (far more than Apple’s calendar app, I’m sure), what good is an iCal address?
Tags: Design, Freeware, Web, Web Apps 2.0
