I have started a Google Calendar to keep track of events and conferences in Social Media. Some of you may have already subscribed to it. However there does not seem to be any way for me to tell exactly how many people are using it!
Feature Request #1: Show Number of Subscribers for a Calendar This would certainly be quite a useful feature to have and as it turns out I am not the first person to request for this.
Feature Request #2: Allow Tagging; Sharing Calendars a User has Added Calendar as a shared resource for planning and organizing events in a community is an important tool. However, the calendar is still not as social as it can be! You can easily find new calendars to add. But what about tags? How about sharing? I would love to be able to create a tag cloud of events and a public list of calendars I have added.
Feature Request #3: Social Event Notification If a user has made his or her events public, then why not show that users friends an update on the event she plans to attend? I think that Dopplr does this at some level but given that Google Calendar is a good place to consolidate all the events and schedules and GMail is our universal contact list -- why not combine it to make it more social?
Anyways, these are just a few quick thoughts I had about Google Calendar. It is a great tool and has made my life much easier. To be fair, I have never used outlook so perhaps my view may be a bit skewed.
I think that the ability to color code events would also be cool.
Posted by: Akshay Java | July 30, 2008 at 05:44 PM