Google rocks my world
// March 8th, 2007 // Sharepoint
I recently become very interested in the array of Google gadgets which are available and im busy downloading the Google Desktop tool. The calendar for me is the most interesting as Im terrible with birthdays and events. However this tool makes my life really easy. I’ve set it up to sms me whenever there is an event which i’ve added to my calendar. Now i can look like the fabulous friend when i remember everyone’s birthdays just by receiving a FREE sms from Google reminding me.
What interests me even more is the developers API which they’ve produced which allows us nerds to use their calendar to create our own applications and events which use the calendar and therefore all the features of it.
For instance, i just bought the new HTC Tytn phone which has a Windows Mobile 5 Operating System (OS) and im really keen to write someting which allows you to add events to your google calendar. This will allow me to be smsed and possibly share these events with the whole world through the website I expose this calendar on… confused? read on?
They make it really easy to add a calendar to your own website, which not only shows the events you have listed but allows people to add to your calendar’s events if you wish them to.
It blows my mind how awesome this company is, how open they are, and how they will never ever stop perservering in the quest to make everyone elses life easier…. big up
I suppose they do have a lot of money to do that!!
