April 13, 2006
Google Calendar finally arrives!!
After lof of stray screen shots of Google Calendar running around and people talking about its launch to death, Google calendar is finally launched late Wednesday.
Google’s calendar allows multiple people to layer information, so that Mom, Dad and the kids can all see their combined events on one page.
You can Share your events with an individual, a group, or the whole world. You can also share just an individual event with family and friends. Overview page says Gmail recongises events from message and gives option to add reminder and add invites to reminder from a gmail message.
It allows import from Microsoft Outlook and other calendar programs and they said they didn’t had designs on microsoft.
It stores data in iCal format so it can easlity be imported into any software that supports this format.
It supports only IE and Firefox at the moment.
Google product manager Carl Sjogreen says the company added calendars to its arsenal of consumer services because Google users “wanted to see a new approach to calendars. Our mission is to organize the world’s information, and one piece of information people care about a lot is what they’re doing every day.”
Google’s calendar is ad-free for now. Google says it will add sync functionality in the coming months.
