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Google Calendar

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the google-everyday dept.

rickyb writes "After months of rumors and speculation, Google Calendar is now live. It features integration with Gmail, full iCal support, and a bunch of other goodies I'm just starting to discover. The wait is over!"

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  1. Re:Palm support by dave1212 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Palm support (I'm using Mark/Space's Missing Sync) is what I was wondering as well. Hopefully it wouldn't screw with custom fields and/or categories.

  2. Am I the only one scared of this? by minkie · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They already know about everything I search for. If I let them, they would also know about every usenet article I read, and have all my email too, but I'm not willing to give them that. And now, I can add to the list of things I could let them know about me who I have appointments to see, and when. Sure, why not? Perhaps next we'll be seeing Google Bank, Google Dating Service, Google Medical Records, Google Credit History, Google TV, Google Phone Company? All services supplied for free, just let them own everything there is to know about you.

    1. Re:Am I the only one scared of this? by caffeination · · Score: 4, Insightful
      That's like being scared that Domino's knows what pizza you like. How do you expect them to know when and what to deliver to you unless you call them and give them the information? It's fairly important for them to pay attention to the terms people use, just as Domino's has to be aware of what pizzas are popular.

      The alternative is that after you type in the terms, they return a page saying "Lalalalala we're not listening! We care about our users' privacy!" Instead, the choice of whether or not to make the information exchange is left to the individual.

  3. Firefox Extension by Gigadafud · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Someones need to create the Firefox extension to show when I have events now just like the GMail notifier.

  4. True Colors by acvh · · Score: 2, Insightful
    "We look at the rise of China, the investment and the smart people and we are in awe of what has occurred here," Schmidt said.


    "And we salute the government, key leaders in the industry and all of you who have made the rise of the Internet in China such a tremendous accomplishment."


    No more google for me.

  5. Re:Palm support by palmucci · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Umm.. yahoo calendars already support synching with a palm.

  6. Re:Big Brother will know your schedule by caffeination · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Or maybe you're asking not to be a lonely paranoid recluse.

    It's a social calendar: You put some stuff up, make it viewable to your friends, then check their calendar to see when they get out of class so you can call them.

    The internet isn't the place to be plotting your coup d'etat anyway.

  7. Re:Security by Obscurity by Tom · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not really. If it's a good hash, then it's just as if not more secure than a username/password combo. From a security POV, there's no difference between

    http://blabla.com?user=dummy&pass=dumbone

    and

    http://blablab.com?hash=3ebf71dc0135c7927da8fc55a2 fbe782

    So that's not the point. And don't say anything about POST, please, POST is not any more secure than GET, the only people it hides anything from are the dumber half of the AOL users.

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  8. GET vs. POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Okay, so tell me which is more secure, an HTTPS connection with the login information in the URL as a GET or an HTTPS connection with the login information in a POST?

    You fail it.

  9. Re:Tell me more about yourself by Jakeypants · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "And this is different from iCal or Outlook how?"

    Outlook files are stored on your PC. When you enter someone's contact information, it's not sent back to Microsoft.

    iCal files (iCal as in the Apple software, not the standard (stupid Apple)) are stored on your Mac. They are not sent back to Apple.

    Everything you enter in Google is stored and kept by Google. They know everyone you email from you gmail account (as well as everything you've said to them), they will know roughly where you'll be at any given time with this new calendar software, they know what you search for and can pretty accurately extrapolate your profession and interests from it.

    I know we're all supposed to have a lovefest for Google, but that's a little scary.

  10. Re:Submitter waited for this? by Fhqwhgadss · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Google farts.
    Slashdot sniffs.
    Film at 11.

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  11. Re:IE and Firefox only for now by capnez · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It would seem to me that most non-native English speakers (being one myself, and probably thinking that everybody is like me) are actually more irritated by this than native speakers - because we learn it the right way.

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  12. Re:Missing features wishlist by Chris+Pimlott · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Then guess. Be on the safe side and mark yourself busy for 3 or 4 hours. Or if you prefer to have it appear "instantaneous", mark it for 15 minutes. No one will punish you if you get it wrong.

  13. Re:Missing features wishlist (GTalk Status) by copdk4 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would really likee integrating GTalk Status and G Calendar for e.g. If I m in a meeting or sleeping or biking etc.. I could be able to just pull-in that to G Talk status message - shouldnt be that hard technically speaking and can lead to more 'integration' of currently 'defragmented' array of Google services.