http://kennsarah.net/2004/02/29/jon-udell-the-calendar-fiasco/ The Digital Home of Ken & Sarah Walker Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:16:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://kennsarah.net/2004/02/29/jon-udell-the-calendar-fiasco/comment-page-1/#comment-1337 Our Story » Web 2.0 Calendar Showdown Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:19:45 +0000 http://www.kennsarah.net/?p=114#comment-1337 [...] Faithful readers may recall a link back in 2004 to Jon Udell’s apt lamentation of the state of digital calendars. Even with the web and RSS and iCal, there just simply has not been a sustainable way for me to share a family calendar with my wife in the same way I can share my work calendar with my coworkers. Everything available has been a half-way solution, only to crumble under the weight of it’s hacky workarounds: read-only iCal feeds, maddening data incompatabilities (“what do you mean my Palm event categories won’t sync to my Mac?”), and wonky user interfaces make adding an event to your calendar a 12-field process on the Palm, Mac or PC. And God help you if you found something new you want to try and have to migrate your data. [...] [...] Faithful readers may recall a link back in 2004 to Jon Udell’s apt lamentation of the state of digital calendars. Even with the web and RSS and iCal, there just simply has not been a sustainable way for me to share a family calendar with my wife in the same way I can share my work calendar with my coworkers. Everything available has been a half-way solution, only to crumble under the weight of it’s hacky workarounds: read-only iCal feeds, maddening data incompatabilities (“what do you mean my Palm event categories won’t sync to my Mac?”), and wonky user interfaces make adding an event to your calendar a 12-field process on the Palm, Mac or PC. And God help you if you found something new you want to try and have to migrate your data. [...]

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