CalendarReview

Via CalendarSwamp I came across this Microsoft announcement . MS will open up it’s .pst file format. If you ever dug into your system file looking for the place where Outlook stores your email, contact and calendar you must have seen this .pst file format. Only Outlook understands it so you can’t use it for exporting anything. Sometimes that can be a pain. Apparently as of Office 2010 wil open up this fileformat allowing developers to read, create, and interoperate with the data in .pst files in server and client scenarios using the programming language and platform of their choice.

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Exchange groupcalendar is a plugin for exchange server. It provides central scheduling and overview of groups of users from public calendar folders. Additional client side tools available like the above gridview. It works with entourage too. More info on http://www.exchangegroupcalendar.com

This is a breakthrough lot’s of people have been waiting for: Google launched a plug-in that enables Outlook and Google apps to sync calendar, email and contacts. The major pity is that is only available for Google Apps Premier and Education customers.

Now businesses can run Microsoft Outlook on Google Apps instead of Microsoft Exchange, so they can achieve the cost savings, security and reliability of Google Apps while employees use the interface they prefer for email, contacts and calendar.

Sarah Perez of ReadWriteWeb reviewed Outlook connector: “For anyone who uses multiple calendars, you know that one of the big issues that’s being addressed by numerous applications is getting your calendars to sync up with each other. We’ve covered some solutions to this problem before, but we had not seen a truly integrated offering that allowed you to sync up a work calendar in desktop software with an onlne calendar without need of a third-party app of some sort…that is, until yesterday. It seems that Microsoft has finally given the people what they want and have provided a calendar sync tool that actually makes all of Microsoft’s calendaring programs work together.” Read teh whole article here.

Presdo just launched their new, innovative event scheduling tool. According to the website, Presdo “takes the hassle out of trying to find the best time to get together with people. Use Presdo to minimize the annoying ping pong of email, texting, and voicemail when organizing the next team lunch or trying to grab coffee with a friend. ”

Presdo is entirely web-based and has a simple natural language interface for entering the information needed to create events. It can export events to many calendars, such as Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, Yahoo Calendar, and Apple iCal.

The company was started by one of LinkedIn’s founders.

This is great news for people using Outlook (before 2007) and Google Calendar. Finally Google developend a two way sync. Check it out

More behinds the scenes at the Googleblog

SyncMyCal released SyncMyCal Mobile, a Pocket Outlook-Google calendar sync tool for PDA’s and SyncMyCal 1.8. With SyncMyCal Mobile, you can manage all your calendars, keep yourself updated and in touch with your family and friends, anytime, anywhere. It allows you to synchronize your Pocket Outlook’s calendar with your Google calendar, over the air, and hence keeps you updated and in touch. SyncMyCal Mobile can presently be used with Windows Mobile 5.0.

Introducing the brand new OggSync Google Calendar Sync for Outlook, as well as enhanced new features in OggSync for Mobile.Now you can take charge of ALL aspects of your life while at the same time keeping them separate! Combined with the power of Google Calendar, OggSync for Outlook and OggSync for Mobile allows you to share information with those who need to see it while at the same time giving you a full unified view of your scheduled life!

Stop sharing your calendar, Start sharing your availability is the Availitime motto.

Think of AvailiTime as instant messenger for your availability. Just add your calendar and invite your contacts. The private details of your calendar are kept safe and secure while your contacts can see when you are available.

You control what portions of your calendar are shared. Only available to vendors in the afternoon? AvailiTime lets you manage that. Evenings reserved for friends and family? Done. Works for Outlook, Lotus Notes, Google Calendar and Salesforce.com

At the Under the Radar event, Tungle introduced a beta version what it describes as a peer-to-peer meeting coordinator. Users with different calendaring solutions can coordinate meetings independent of application or platform, according to the company. Tungle uses a proprietary, secure and enterprise-friendly P2P network and requires a download plug in.