Google Calendar, CL2, Launched

April 12, 2006 · 9 comments

I just thought I would leave you guys with this link, google.com/cl2, before I called it a night. I can definitely see myself using this more than my 30 Boxes account, which hasn’t been touched in weeks. I haven’t played around with CL2 too much but I don’t think it can possibly be less than stellar.

    My Justification

  • CL2 is made by Google
  • Like all G-services it uses the same login and integrates with gmail
  • CL2 can send you SMS alerts to your cell phone for calendar events
  • iCal and MS Outlook calendar files may be imported
  • You can have multiple calendars such as School, Work and Personal
  • CL2 can keep track of public calendars as well as search them
  • Google doesn’t promise too much with CL2 and everything just works

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1 Zach Hale April 13, 2006 at 1:20 am

I was just fine using iCal before and wasn’t following all the hype for googles web calendar, but this really is a great thing. I do really like how it integrates with Gmail and my contacts and how I can subscribe to the .ics files in iCal so I can view my calendars that way too. I just moved all my calendars over and plan to really enjoy this service. Sweet!

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2 titanium_geek April 13, 2006 at 6:40 am

oh sweet! If I’m starting a browser, it might aswell be my email and calendar at the same time!

importing iCal stuff is WICKED!

of course, I could agrue that I am being brainwashed by the cult of google…

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3 titanium_geek April 13, 2006 at 7:06 am

a little slow, actually, but that’s to be expected for any google beta. I managed to get in eventually, but it took a few tries.

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4 Kyle April 13, 2006 at 10:06 am

Unlike some other google GUIs, this one seems much more suited for their type of UI. The simplistic design with the tabs on the top and side is really nice. I’ll have to get it up and running sometime.

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5 Kyle April 13, 2006 at 7:43 pm

Just noticed a big oversight, atleast in my opinion. The “Gmail Integration” or notification system only works on the primary calendar. So, if you’re like me, where you have multiple calendars for different things, you can’t get notifications for everything. Poor design.

If you ask me, it should take all your calendars and send you a notification for each one OR simply group them together.

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6 Brooke April 14, 2006 at 6:05 pm

Cool – you might be a great person to ask – Is there a way to REALLY share the google calendar? As in keeping the format for others to see? (Like what I have set up with calendar hub: http://www.brookenovak.com/calendar.html )

Anyone else having import problems?

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