CogBlogged Tagged ‘calendar’

cc licensed flickr photo shared by ejhogbin Calendar data has always stumped me- on one hand it seems rather structured — something (data) happens on a date (data) maybe at a place (data) but it is something people much more savvy than I struggle with as it gets more complex… but I am not writing about the micro issues of micro data. In the last few years of many travel trips, I’d dabbled with two web based calendar services, which at some level are very similar– both dopplr and trip.it allow you to add events without the manual typing in of things to form– very elegantly by forwarding via email your airline, car rental, hotel reservations — that is oh so smart. For a while I was using both, but ran into some issues with dopplr accepting a second email sender address (I get travel stuff sent to both my [...]

I’ve not written anything on a paper calendar or DayTimer for more than two years; my cal is on the clouds with Google Calendar– We have all of the NMC stuff using it on our enterprise set of GoogleApps, for individuals and several group/project ones, and I can access and schedule them with my typically logged in setup for CogDogBlog. It is almost fun to be organized. But a new little tool makes it even better than a fresh bone. Maybe this happens to you- you are looking at a conference event web site, or the airline booking page, or someone IMS and asks when the meeting is… and to get to your calendar, you need to open a new tab or window, fish around for a bookmark, and load it in a new space. If you install GCal Popup in Firefox, getting to your calendar is like reaching in [...]