Cozi recently reached the milestone of one million members.

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.

Rainlendar 2.4 is available from http://www.rainlendar.net. The listof changes is to long to mention here but you can find the features here.

Several people among which Robert Scoble, Walt Mossberg and others report that Apple’s Mobile Me is deleting all appoinments from your calendar. Be warned and back up.

Google recently moved the KeepandShare printable calendar to page 1 for the search phrase ‘2009 calendar‘…   2009 traffic is already booming, probably because the KeepandShare calendar is ideal for creating friendly calendar that easily printed out in PDF format, but can also be edited, tailored, as well as shared online in any web browser. 

In just the last month KeepandShare added 3 major new calendar features: import of calendar data from ICS and CSV formats,  repeating events and calendar overlays.  Since the base calendar in KeepandShare is a simple text editor, this means the system is ‘low tech’, easy-to-use to enter any kind of text, and get great PDF printouts, but it can give all the usual powerful computer-based calendar features - all in a web-based free calendar service.

The next Mobile Calendaring Interoperability Test Event will take place on Tuesday-Thursday, November 4-6, 2008, in Plzen, Czech Republic, hosted by Kerio Technologies. This event is open to both CalConnect members and non-members (members receive a discount upon the registration fee). You must register in advance. The registration form is at Mobile IOP Test Event Participant Registration.

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.

Registration is now open for Roundtable XII and the associated CalConnect Interoperability Test Event, October 6-10, 2008 in Sunnyvale, California, hosted by Yahoo! Inc.. Please see CalConnect XIII for logistics and links to the registration pages for the Roundtable and for the IOP test event.

Calgoo changes it’s business model by making Calgoo’s calendaring products free as of Jul 22. The single user license used to be USD 29,95. In exchange the user gets ads served in his calendar. The impleication for the user are not yet revealed and will be announced later by Calgoo.

Plaxo just released a press release announcing their take over by Comcast, the leading provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services (and Plaxo’s largest customer and partner). Plaxo will remain an independent operation. So, what about current Plaxo members? The services you know and enjoy from Plaxo will not only continue, but will continue to evolve and improve. In addition, both of our services benefit from “network effect,” which is to say that the more people who use them, the more useful they become.