Today Google
unwrapped its latest web product: Google Calendar. gCalendar (as I shall
now refer to it) supports the iCal standard, so you should be able to import your events and what have yous from iCal
without much fuss. That is, as long as you use a browser other than Safari. I'm sure Google is working on supporting
Safari, but as it customary with Google products, it isn't supported out of the gate.Overall gCalendar is something of a yawner, but it is still in Beta, so there is still hope.
To read more about gCalendar check out Download Squad and the Unofficial Google Weblog.
Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
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4-13-2006 @ 2:47PM
Jonathan said...
Yeah, it really gets old these days to click on to a new product and the first you are presented with is: "Sorry, but we are too lazy to make our product work with Safari"
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4-13-2006 @ 2:59PM
anonymous said...
how about "gCal"? It's shorter and better parallels "iCal"!
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4-13-2006 @ 3:02PM
Freelance Web Design said...
I wish Google would improve the design of many of their products. Their products are great but the user interfaces look even worse than if Microsoft designed them.
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4-13-2006 @ 3:29PM
lakiolen said...
Safari might not be supported but Camino is. I guess Camino is sufficiently Firefox enough for Google's stuff.
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4-13-2006 @ 3:59PM
Jerome said...
I wouldn't call it a complete yawner, it's simple and very iCal like (so it's nice and easy to create events etc.)
I think the big coolness here is the community aspect. It has a lot of sharing and invitation features that are pretty cool. You can share a calendar read/write to others, invite people to an event of yours (they can then yes/no/maybe if they're going), this alone is attractive to me.
Down side is a lot of the interaction is sluggish right now, and the invitation system is INCREDIBLY slow, appears to possibly piggy back on gmail for that too.
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4-13-2006 @ 5:53PM
Thomas said...
I think it's awesome. As soon as it can support subscribing to protected calendars from icalx.com I'll be all set!!
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4-13-2006 @ 7:22PM
Brad said...
The main reason why Safari isn't supported is because it's rarely updated and can't even conform to the now-basic rich text editors on some webpages.
Safari is lame, get over it. Switch to Camino or Opera and all is fine.
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4-14-2006 @ 2:50AM
damonlaw said...
It's a boon for us users that want to share Management of a public calendar! Hurrah!
Go gCal!
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