The Rise of Web Calendars
December 10th, 2006 · View Comments ·
Many people by now should be familiar with Google Calendar. The benefits of having an online calendar are obvious: Not only is a web calendar computer-independent, but it’s also easily shareable with other people. With the World Wide Web maturing in its technology, web apps are getting even snazzier than the desktop equivalents that we’ve become accustomed to. In fact, considering how many of the Web’s latest offerings are free, this new trend may begin to throw existing successful apps out the window. Who needs Microsoft Office when you’ve got Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Gmail (which, after all these years, is still in beta, strangely enough), Thunderbird, and the rest of Mozilla’s and Google’s software arsenal?
But it’s not just these two giants that are coming out with nice software. You’ll miss out on some nice gems if you don’t look past Mozilla and Google. For this article, I’ll review some of the free web calendars I’ve tried, and we’ll see just how Google’s calendar stacks up with the rest of them. (more…)
