Google Calendar Screenshots
I posted about Google CL2 last month. I’m happy to see that some screenshots have been leaked and have been posted over at TechCrunch.
CL2 makes it easy — even effortless — to keep track of all the events in your life and compare them to what your friends and family have going on in theirs. We’ve designed a calendar that works for you — helping you add events from email, friends, and other public calendars — so you don’t have to spend all your time maintaining your schedule. CL2 even helps you discover new events you might be interested in. We think it’s a great tool for managing your daily schedule, keeping track of what everyone in your family is doing, organizing events for a club or team, or creating public events that you can promote to the world.
CL2 is closely, very closely, integrated with Gmail. It includes now-standard web 2.0 features - Ajax, suscription feeds for integration with iCal and other desktop calendars, event creation, search, sharing, notifications (including SMS) and more.
It’s also clear from the event creation functionality that Google is is going to attempt to aggregate events like eventful and zvents do now. If they combine their event creation feature with a web crawl and parsing of event data (exactly what zvents does), they will be able to create a very large events database.
Sadly, the article also mentions that CL2 is a long ways off and there are currently only 200 beta testers that can’t invite others. Things are hush hush, but I hope more will be leaked in time!
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Posted: Mar 12th, 2006 at 4:45 pmNo Sheep » Google’s Next Big Thing! 1 -
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Posted: Mar 13th, 2006 at 8:09 amBorkWeb » Blog Archive » Thumbstack - A Web-Based Presentation Application Reply to this comment.[...] I’ll be keeping an eye on Thumbstack. Google recently bought Writely, which means they are interested in web-based Office software. They’ve got Gmail, an upcoming Calendar, a Word Processor, and a Webpage Builder. All they need now are solid presentation and spreadsheet applications. The race is on. [...]
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[...] I was excited about Writely early on, and I’m even more excited to see how it evolves with the power of Google behind it. Which piece will they tackle next? They have GMail, Calendar appears to be around the corner, this gives them word processing… I’d like a spreadsheet application, maybe iRows? Or how about an presentation solution, maybe build an application on top of S5? That would only leave Access and Visio without competition in this space. [...]