CalendarReview

The new Yahoo Calendar is now in beta. I’m sory to say that I do not yet have been invited to the beta but from the screencast on the beta website it looks like the Yahoo Calendar has improved a lot. To be honest: it was about time. What I understand is Yahoo took Zimbra, the platform they took over last year, as the basis for the improvements. Not only does the calendar work more intuitive, it allows you more then ever before to intergate it with other Yahoo services like Flickr. If anybody has seen the actual beta calendar please write a review here at calendarreview.com.

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.

LeeAnn Prescott (Former Research Director, Hitwise):” As you resolve to get your schedule more organized in the new year, do what more and more people are doing – use Google Calendar. A few weeks ago, Google Calendar overtook MSN Calendar in market share of US visits, and is quickly approaching Yahoo! Calendar. In the six months from June 2006 to December 2006, the market share of visits to Google Calendar increased by 333%, at the expense of its main competitors.” Read more

On Web Worker Dialy it is Google-takes-on-the-world-week. This week it’s the battle of the online calendars:

There are quite a few contenders we could have selected to take on the Big G…Backpack Calendar, Yahoo Calendar, Airset…to name a few. In the end, 30Boxes won a chance in the ring because in a sense, it started the game. Back in February 2006, it was revolutionary to type “Meeting Barbara tues noon” and have your calendar just know to schedule the appointment on the right date with the right time. Then Google Calendar came along a few months later, forcing the 3-person shop developing 30Boxes to up their game. So in a bit of a David vs. Goliath match, let’s set an appointment to pit these two calendar applications against each other and see who’s left standing.