Tag: calendar

What if everyone used a calendar?

there are < 50m calendar users in the world. what would happen if 1b people used calendars every day?

no more missed connections
vastly increased great moments with friends and family
10% GDP lift around the world

as a species, we have mastered space as a shared resource, but not yet time. what happens when we do?

Calendaring low hanging fruit

what i love about this blog stuff is that there are so many low hanging fruit. wherever you look, it is just a matter of mixing various xml dialects. and we haven’t really figured out what large-scale namespace intertwingling will bring either, but the permutative power is obvious. invariably, my thoughts center around various PIM functions that could be enhanced by weblog technology, such as calendaring and mind mapping. i have yet to delve deeper into the mind mapping stuff, but calendaring has some interesting starting points:

i left out the earlier research i did on calendaring, and there is also my rendered calendar which is unfortunately behind a realm due to configuration issues.
in any event, it may make sense to define yet another link tag (is there a central registry somewhere?) to point to your iCal file, enabling auto discovery. how about
<link rel=”calendar” type=”text/x-xcal” title=”calendar” href=”https://greg.abstrakt.ch/calendar.ical” />
the type is of course always debatable. i am following prior art here i think. now, to weave these loose ends into something compelling.

Capturing the essence of PIM

i installed mozilla calendar today and am now publishing my schedule. rss feeds are available. with some more work this should allow others to subscribe to my schedule and make it much easier to find dates and places to meet. when i learn a bit more, i want to play around with iCal to RDF and RDF to iCal converters. next: collecting gps coordinates, and putting them in a metadata feed (or should that be meatdata).

Transparent calendaring

I’m currently researching tools that allow me to publish and maintain my schedule online. Features I need:

integration with outlook
automated synchronization (preferably 2way)
standards support (iCal, vCal etc)
public / private events

Of course there are wish list items like group scheduling, rss feeds, FOAF support, location-awareness. I believe that opening up my schedule for others to take a peak at is most useful (with the exception of some events that may be too private). Interestingly, there is a Semantic Web Calendar Agent that

provides interoperability between RDF based calendar descriptions on the web, and Personal Information Manager (PIM) Systems such as Microsoft’s Outlook. Schedules and events can be described on the web in RDF, using existing ontologies such as the Hybrid iCal-like RDF Schema or the Dublin Core ontology, and linked to individual’s contact information described, for example, at their home page.

its conveniently written by some of the guys from #foaf 🙂 There is also a RDF Calendar task force