Comments on: Too Many Ajax Calendars

By: Emmanuel

Emmanuel — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:37:53 +0000

So can someone suggest a calender for me? I run a digital signage service and I want to be able to show advertisers what times in the day/week/month that their ads are booked and running. But when the Advertisers sign in, I only want them to be able to update just their content. But they can see who the other advertisers are.

Who would have that type of function, with email alerts for changes to the bookings

By: Ben Duncan

Ben Duncan — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:25:20 +0000

Take a look at a fresh approach to an Ajax Calendar called @Mail, it's lightweight, fast and the UI is refreshing. @Mail is a WebMail application that has an inbuilt Ajax Calendar, also includes full Outlook sync support so your Calendar/Tasks from Outlook are visible via the Web interface ( PocketPC sync supported too )

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:59:51 +0000

I just want a nice calendar that operates like an online version of iCal. I want to click on a day an instantly put in info…with no damn dialogs.

By: Shane Vitarana

Shane Vitarana — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:01:49 +0000

I think it's a little short-sighted to say that all of these Ajax calendars are being built to sell. Calendaring is a hard problem because people like to organize their time in fundamentally different ways.

By: Bart Claeys

Bart Claeys — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:06:20 +0000

Some 2.0 Calender developments are focusing on connecting their application with API’s like deli.cio.us. or Flickr just because these are cool nowaddays. But do customers really need that for a calender? NO! They just want a good import & export filter so they can switch over from Outlook, Palm Desktop or whatever other desktop calender application to an online calender. If users can’t do this, they won’t use the calender, trust me.

And please let myself decide whether I want a day, week or month view. Lots of calenders lack this simple feature.

Another nice feature would be an integrated birthday calender. Birthdays are special events which repeat every year, without a certain duration. You could connect these events with gift shops.

Other special events are flights. You should connect these to online flight-trackers.

Anyway, still a lot of work to do… maybe they should start over and examine which kind of events exist and build custom solutions for each type of event.

And of course some RSS support so I can share my calender!

By: ThePef

ThePef — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:36:41 +0000

Everyone is missing the point completely. We arent in need at this point of a new UI, what is needed is a new way to handle a refer to master data, or home calendars. That way I can refer work calendars back to in a bi-directional fashion to a consumer master of myself, slotting time for sharing with other institutions, groups, and activities.

By: Oswald

Oswald — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:11:33 +0000

Another: AJAX calendar as a sidebar for Opera and Firefox :) (It's in Czech only for now.)

By: Wally

Wally — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:21:04 +0000

I have been using Aisrset, but am trying out 30Boxes. I think 30Boxes looks promising. Airset needs some interface changes.

By: Bonyboy

Bonyboy — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:28:12 +0000

I have been very pleased with Planzo.

By: Nels

Nels — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 17:30:30 +0000

I’m with physio. AirSet is the cream of the crop right now. And they get straight up no attention. Maybe they need to add “Beta” next to their logo…

By: noname

noname — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:15:33 +0000

I have been looking for an OSS ajax calendering system that is mature, haven’t found one yet though :(

By: physio

physio — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:32:33 +0000

I’ve been on a seemingly endless search for the right online calendar system. The closest I’ve found is Airset.com . It is much more full featured than any other system. I really liked hipcal.com for a while but their feature set is much more limited and new features are slow to arrive.

Check out Airset. It’s not perfect but it’s the closest to perfect enough.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:10:12 +0000

There are a few other ones that he failed to mention that are AJAX based that he should give a shot… http://www.calendarhub.com and http://www.hipcal.com

Not sure if the author will care for either of those but in my opinion they both are way better than kiko which to me is a horribly designed calendar.