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garym — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:30:25 -0400

A bit further along the road toward the Canonical Calendar, I'm currently testing out exactly that, exactly what I'd described way back in April, only with a new twist: Imagine if the calendar wasn't open to every spam vendor in the Universe, but was just between us, just between you and me and all the other Peninsulars?

It even almost kinda works! I have my appointments listed, some of them privately mine, others open to the general Peninsular community, still others only shared with friends I invite to share, and May also has a calendar sharing with mine. Sure enough, I see her events right along side my own (colour coded) and ditto on her side. The bad news is, despite being set to the same time zones, our calendars are three hours out of sync!

But it is close, and getting closer. Also getting closer, we will soon be offering 2GB email accounts in the teledyn.com domain, complete with advanced spam filtering, custom filtering (tag all ma's emails with a bright red star!), forwarding copies to your cellphone, reading your email where you are (including on your phone) and, as an added bonus, if you choose to read that email on the webpage, you'll also see a list of all your SBP friends you've added to your contacts, and chat with them right there on the spot. It's our own friendly neighbourhood GMail and personally, I think it's your best answer for a flexible email service, and the suite of services make for an ideal answer for surviving the cabin fever season.

All this rolls out soon, real soon, probably before Christmas; if you're really eager (and forgiving of scheds 3hrs out of whack) all you have to do to get in on the test-phase is send me a private message and tell me the email handle you'd like to have (@teledyn.com) and you're in.

garym: ict evangelist - musician - whatever

great ideas...

bub — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:10:34 -0400

And I STILL think BOB THE BLOG was a great idea too.....

The Canonical Community Calendar

garym — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:37:54 -0400

Years ago, I had this dream where every organization in the SBP could list their events in just one place, and that one place could be used by every other place to give us all one unified canonical authoratative list of what's happening where and when and why throughout the year. It seemed like a really good idea, too.

Few years back, at a town-hosted inter-org all-tourism meeting down at the Sauble Community Centre, we were all asked by the town's tourism director to kindly submit our events to their official town calendar and I, of course, endorsed the idea completely on condition this one true master list would done so as to be useful to one and all, insertable on our individual websites, downloadable to our calendars, always current, open and free, and most of all, instantly editable directly by those who actually owned the information.

It wasn't, so I didn't, and there it sat, a great idea in search of an implementation, undone for two or three years, an itch left unscratched until Google stepped up to do it for us ...

Wouldn't it be great to be able to keep track of all the events in your life, coordinate schedules with friends and family, and find new things to do -- all with one online calendar? We thought so, too. Learn More

Seeing the big picture

With Google Calendar, you can see your friends' and family's schedules right next to your own; quickly add events mentioned in Gmail conversations or saved in other calendar applications; and add other interesting events that you find online.