If I had been thinking, I would have known that there was no way that I would remember the phone meeting I scheduled for 6:30 on Tuesday evening.
Tuesday was a very busy day. At 6:30 I was not only exhausted, I was facing another three hours of work. So I decided to take a "break' with my daughter and watch two episodes of LOST( thank you Netflix) which we are now addicted to(how did we avoid watching this show for two years?)
The appointment was in my Blackberry and my Blackberry was within hand reach, but in order to see the appointment, I would have had to deliberately open the Blackberry and check to see if I had scheduled something.
I didn't do that. When I heard the phone ringing in my upstairs office at 6:30, I ignored it. I knew that anyone who wanted to get in touch with me would try my mobile. I was on a break and had no intention of dashing upstairs to answer a call.
Now, if I had been using one of the many online calendars that are now available, I could have received an RSS reminder via my mobile phone and/or Blackberry and I wouldn't have had to spend Wednesday groveling about missing the appointment Blogher Charlene Li who blogs about technology developments in media and marketing </a> has been thinking about calendars too. She has lots of calendars to deal with and since 1998 has been using Yahoo!'s online calendar---but she may be making a change.
"Like many working parents, I juggle multiple calendars – my work calendar, two kids, spouse, school, church, visiting relatives, and supposed, an exercise calendar. So keeping track of all of the bits and pieces of my life is the bane of my evenings – I spend WAY too much time managing all of the multiple calendars. Just last week, I spent three evenings scheduling playdates for my two lovely kids – not my idea of fun.
So in an effort to get organized, I’ve been trying a slew of the new AJAX calendar products that promise to be an improvement over my existing online calendar (I currently use Yahoo! Calendar, which has kept my private life buzzing along happily since 1998). Having trialed a half dozen of them (including Airset, CalendarHub, 30Boxes, Planzo, and SpongeCell), Google Calendar is truly a best of breed in terms of ease of use and functionality."
Charlene sees major business potential for the new Google Calendar saying the API will create a new ecosystem of applications around schedules."Here’s an example: a hair salon could use Google Calendar to handle online appointment scheduling. Each stylist would have their own calendar, and a script would match the requested services with various schedules (a service currently offered by companies like spasalon.com). The analogy to Maps is particularly poignant if you think that Maps helped us control “space”; now Calendar is helping us control “time”.
However, Google does have some competition and one of the upstarts is a calendar called Kiko that Cheery Visage blogs, "I have the hots for Bubbleshare and Kiko"
"I simply must gosh over its slick, sexy user interface. The interface is very interactive; you can click on any day and start typing, drag an event around the calendar, change an event's time by resizing it. After trying out Google's calendar as well, I can honestly say that Kiko beats Google in the user interface area, hands down (Kiko is much better developed). ... The overall color themes are very tasteful and pleasant on the eyes. It sure knows how to win a girl's heart by doing a smashing job on coordinating colors (nothing turns me off more than clashing colors, ouch).
It's got a public calendar view (if you enable it), attendee invitation and status, and appointment reminders can be sent by e-mail, instant message or text message through mobile phone (which also includes some international service providers, not just United States)."
Not only does Cheery Visage have the "Hots" for Kiko but she's also enamored with Bubbleshare- a photo sharing site that offers some "fun" features like captions, bubble captions. Bubbleshare will also create online puzzles and jigsaws out of your photos.
So in the unlikely event that you have some time to kill today, try the Online Jigsaw of a Mayan Calendar
Image Credit: Mayan Calendar from Calendars Through The Ages, a Web Exhibit
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