今天在slashdot看到
一篇文章,谈到Google要推出一个类似Mac ox上
ICalendar的服务。这个ICalendar是什么东西呢?看了Apple网站上的介绍了解到,ICalendar意味着通过这个程序,你可以将自己的计划安排分成几份,运动、学习、生活、旅游等等,分别写入ICalendar提供的数据库中,还可以方便的将这个计划通过Internet共享,如果对方也是ICar的用户,甚至可以订阅你的calendar服务。
我想,这个软件应该也是社会网络系统的一部分,我同时也想到了另一个网站
www.43things.com,这个网站期望你通过共享你的目标和完成目标的过程来寻找志同道合者,而ical的服务,类似yahoo邮箱中的日历功能,在一个共同的小区或者朋友圈中,有利于别人参与到你的活动中来,也利于相互之间更容易产生了解。
另外,我对ICal的分类颜色条比较有兴趣。但是,仅仅这些还是不够的,也许Ical还有其他的功能?
下面是我搜集到来自slashdot该主题下的比较有趣的评论:
I buy it. (Score:5, Interesting)
by
Chuck Chunder (21021)
on Wednesday March 02, @08:57PM (
#11830285)
(http://blog.paulmcgarry.com/ | Last Journal: Friday July 25, @12:57AM)
I'm sure search can be applied to calendar entries.
"Going to Movies" - Pimp some movies.
"Tax due" - Pimp some tax services.
"Pay off credit card" - Pimp a credit card
"Johns Birthday" - Pimp some gift ideas
Just like gmail and adsense, calendar advertising could be used to
help supply adverts targeted to something that someone is specifically
interested in. Calendars might even be better than email as they will
probably be more focused and less noisy than email conversations.
Re:I don't buy it (Score:4, Insightful)
by
larkost (79011)
on Wednesday March 02, @08:57PM (
#11830288)
I think there is some real room for Google to offer a new service, or
rather to provide a high-profile better-interfaced offering just like
they did with gmail. Namely I could see them offering WebDAV-based iCal
(the format) hosting with a web interface. That way people using
Apple's iCal and Mozilla's calendaring applications would have a place
to publish their calendars to...
Apple does this with
|
.Mac, so there is precedent, but there is a lot of room for improvements. And google can be a lot higher profile than .Mac.
And with iCal rumored to have bi-directional syncing in 10.4 and
Sunbird's ability to do some of that, the time is just about ripe for
this type of service.
There is the little problem of how to make
it pay for itself, but google seems to be very creative about how to
use this sort of information for marketing purposes, and if they
allowed people to link in commercial calendars (for example your
favorite TV programs new shows, or the local rock climbing club,
etc...) I could see this being a very viable advertising targeting tool. |
Re:I don't buy it (Score:5, Insightful)
by
Elwood P Dowd (16933) <
dojothemouse@mac.com>
on Wednesday March 02, @09:01PM (
#11830309)
(http://homepage.mac.com/dojothemouse | Last Journal: Monday February 28, @01:57PM)
Are you kidding? Outlook does a poor job on the PC, and iCal does a
passing job on the Mac, but neither of them sync with each other and
neither of them are web based. Hell,
you should be able to syndicate a
calendar with RSS feeds.
If their calendar works as well as iCal, but brings it to the rest of the planet, that would be a complete coup.
I
hope you're trolling. Sure, I don't see that it's the most
groundbreaking thing Google will ever do, but you're crazy if you don't
think they have a team or three working on calendar solutions. They
have a lot of people.
Probably not a calendar (Score:5, Insightful)
by
ballwall (629887)
on Wednesday March 02, @08:56PM (
#11830282)
My guess is they want to search events. It would be cool to google
"concerts in denver" at calendar.google.com and get something
meaningful back. It's all about searching, and storing your events in
google doesn't really accomplish anything.
Makes much more sense for them to add the time element to searches, not a calendar function similar to Outlook or Lotus Notes.