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Calendaring interoperability woes

Posted in calendaring, google, ical, outlook by sudarkoff on May 9, 2007

It amazes me to no end that such a simple and fundamental problem as calendaring could not be solved after decades of advances in our field. We put a man on the Moon, for god’s sake! Why can’t we make Outlook Calendar, Google Calendar and Apple iCal work together well?

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  1. pianofab said, on May 10, 2007 at 22:22

    I guess the answer is in your own words… they put a man on the Moon… ;-)

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  2. George Sudarkoff said, on May 15, 2007 at 15:45

    And they want to do it again by 2018… Not sure I understand what you mean. Software Development is not that juvenile. Although I have to agree, we have a long way to go before we reach our Moon.

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  3. Tony said, on July 16, 2007 at 16:39

    GCal has a pretty simple API already. Once iCal adds CalDAV support in Leopard, we’ll just need a little app that can translate b/w CalDAV and GCal’s API. Outlook sucks and will probably never support an open standard properly.

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  4. George Sudarkoff said, on July 16, 2007 at 16:57

    At the moment, I am using http://spanningsync.com/.

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