CalendarReview

Wired reviewed calendar applications. Their favourites:

1. Google Calendar
2. Yahoo Calendar
3. Scrybe
4. 30Boxes
5. MSN Calendar
6. Kiko
7. Backpack
8. Spongecell

Ismael Ghalimi of IT|Redux wrote this very good and extensive review of 10 calendar 2.0 applications like:  Google Calendar, Trumba, 30Boxes, Scrybe, Kiko, CalendarHub, Planzo, Jotlet, Hipcal, Spongecell.

Paul Glazowski of Profy reviewed Kiko. His conclusion: Most online calendars are quite impressive, and I will say that Google Calendar had me on the verge of converting, but Kiko wins my vote for ‘best in show’. It’s got everything I need and lets me get on with my business. Chalk one up for the little guy. This one’s a winner.

Kevin and Shaun wrote this post on their favourite calendar apps:

This week my wife and I are trying to get our lives in order so I figured I’d feature the 10 calendar web applications that I checked out recently that aim at helping do just that - organize your schedule. Currently we’re using 30boxes so we both can keep track of each other’s schedules before we agree to something when other plans have already been made. I like 30boxes and so does she, but I’m still looking into these others as well. Maybe our readers have some comments or suggestions? Anyway, these are the ones I briefly checked out (in no order): 30boxes, Airset, CalendarHub, Google Calendar, Kiko, Mosuki, Planzo, Spongecell, Vivapop and Yahoo Calendar.

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What Kiko says about itself:

Kiko is a great, dead simple calendar you can use right in your web browser

• Natural Language Quick Create
• Drag & Drop
• Reminders via Email, AIM & SMS
• RSS Feeds
• Rich Contact Management
• Internationalization
• iCal and vCard Import
• API

Barbara Krasnoff wrote an evaluation on webcalendars on Forbes and Informationweek. Her conclusion:

1. Google Calendar
2. 30 Boxes
3. CalendarHub
4. Kiko

We have a new podcast up on TalkCrunch - an interview with Tucows CEO Elliot Noss. Tucows just acquired one year old Ajax calendar Kiko for $250,000 on ebay. We spoke for about twenty minutes on his reasons for buying the company and what he plans on doing with it. Elliot also talks for a few minutes about the bidding drama on ebay, where the sale price increased by over $100k in the last two minutes of the auction.

I think the transaction, and others like it, might signal a trend in the new web. Is eBay the investment bank of Web 2.0? New companies are easy to start, easy to fund and (now) easy to sell for a few hundred grand on eBay…this might be the way many of these small companies eventually find liquidity.

Previous TechCrunch posts on Kiko are here.

The team behind Kiko has decided to sell their calendar web application on eBay following their inability to technically “support Kiko the way it and its users deserve to be supported”. Starting bid is $49,999.99.
Kiko was one of the prototypical Web 2.0 companies (a free online calendar with AJAX, written in Ruby On Rails and funded by Y Combinator). It doesn’t get much more Web 2.0 than that. What the hell went wrong! Is Google Calendar such a threat to companies like Kiko or are we dealing with chickens here? Read the article Lessons From The Death Of A Web 2.0 Startup and decide for yourself.

Update 27/08/06: Kiko sells for $258,100!