Google Calendar has gone live
Just a couple hours ago, the long-awaited Google Calendar went live.
It looks very attractive. Though work-hourse applications sometimes look like ugly ducklings pasted onto web pages, this is not one of those. Colors and layout are very decent.
It supports iCal and other standards too. As well as some bulk import features. You can import from Yahoo Calendar, for instance.
While they do not mention bulk export - they do allow making calendars public so they can show up in search results.
This application looks like it goes in the win column for Google.
If you have a Google Gmail account, your pretty much just go to the Google Calendar home page and tell it to turn it on. Since it already knows you, there is not much work to do unless you want to set up a separate account for your calendar to use - which sounds masochistic.
For those who want to make it really really easy for visitors to their website to add events from the site to their Google calendars, Google has provided a handy Event Publisher Guide that tells how to do it.
