Comments on: Why don’t online calendar apps allow importing of existing calendars?

By: Google Calendar reviewed » at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views

Google Calendar reviewed » at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views — Fri, 05 May 2006 19:17:20 +0000

[...] I recently decided to re-visit the online calendar issues I wrote about previously. Since writing that piece, Bernard informed me of a site called iCal Exchange which allows publishing and subscribing of iCal calendars. This service was ok but I had connectivity issues with it from time to time plus I didn’t want to have to publish from all my machines, and then subscribe to them all to keep track of all my data! There had to be a better way. [...]

By: PaulSweeney

PaulSweeney — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:21:38 +0000

Have to agree. Why would you launch 30Boxes without having the capability to take your existing information from outlook? Why doesn’t it take / upload “buddy lists” etc. so that I can see other people, and lets face it, “share my availability” and allow people to make meeting suggestions. If this allowed my company to more effectively see where we were during the week, and book each other into meetings, then it would be compelling. Just a thought.

By: corey

corey — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:50:44 +0000

Check out CalendarHub

CalendarHub supports sychronization with other calendar programs such as Outlook, Yahoo Calendar, ICal, and many others using Import and Export. In general, you must export your other calendars and download them to your computer before you can import them into CalendarHub.

By: Narendra

Narendra — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:59:45 +0000

We just added an import

http://30boxes.com/import.php

We have not yet enabled “writes” with our API but once we do, someone will create a sync program
Our main goal, though, was to give people something so simple that they would abandon their desktop app (or like me just subscribe to my 30B feed so I have an offline version).

By: brian greene

brian greene — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:30:56 +0000

i use http://webcalendar.sourceforge.net/ imports/exports ical vcal & palm, very good at email alerts, multi user and supports guests, might not be what you want

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:48:00 +0000

David,

thanks a million for the kind words - sorry I can’t help you on the Murphy’s front - I’ll treat you to one if you ever make it to Cork - how’s that?

By: David Cate

David Cate — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:18:21 +0000

Absolutely! There are so many Web 2.0 apps coming out on the market these days, I’m dizzy with the possibilities, but my Treo has all of the information I need and moving it out of there into a website displaces the data and that’s the real issue here…not the app.

Give me something that works with my Palm OS, my .mac world I would be much happier, but until the dots are connected, I doubt I’ll be moving anytime soon. I’ve got accounts at 30days and just starting to play with it, but it’s not going to integrate and will probably become the flavor of the day in a couple of weeks.

Good thoughts Tom and I always enjoy your Podcasts. Your interviews and subject matter are some of the best on the web! Now if I could just find me some Murphy’s to drink over here in the states.

Keep up the great work.