TextFlow from Nordic River Software in Sweden is a document co-authoring service, or what the Nordic River people describe as a “parallel word processor”. That means that multiple people can work on the same document at the same time, without requiring a manual process for bringing the different […]
Last week Tungle Corporation, a developer of software to reduce the pain of scheduling meetings between people, released a new web-based service called Tungle Accelerate. The service has been under development for a year and half, and greatly extends the capability of Tungle’s offering to streamline and simplify […]
The next release of Meeting Maker, a calendaring program, will support the CalDAV standard. “PeopleCube, provider of intelligent workplace and resource management technology, today announced that it’s upcoming release of the Meeting Maker group scheduling application will support CalDAV. The CalDAV standard enables users to share scheduling resources […]
The next CalConnect Interoperability Test Event is being held in February 2009 at Microsoft in Redmond. For a long time Microsoft wasn’t a member of CalConnect, but are now … and that bodes well for improved calendaring interoperability in the future. Michael’s hope: that the SharePoint team goes […]
TimeBridge introduced the Daily Brief, an enhancement to its calendaring service that shows each user their agenda for the day, as well as supporting material to provide travel directions and background information on meeting attendees. “TimeBridge introduced the public beta of a new enhancement to its Personal Scheduling […]
I have been thinking. And it’s 5.30am here in New Zealand on Saturday morning, and by all scores, I should be asleep. But … ideas have the power to enthuse, so here’s mine for the day. When a group of people have access to a given communication or […]
To say there is a lot to do for Eric’s Beyond Planning: eProductivity conference starting on Saturday in the Philippines is an understatement! One of the sessions in three of the tracks that Eric is presenting is about productivity tips. Eric has enlisted the help of Bruce Elgort […]
Earlier today I had a neat discussion with Rajesh Setty, one of the co-founders of iPolipo, an online meeting scheduling service. Finding better ways to schedule meetings outside of email is a big professional interest of mine (eg, see the Messaging News (May/June 2007) cover story on calendaring), […]
The May/June 2007 edition of Messaging News has just gone online. I am tickled pink because I wrote the cover story!!!! The cover story, Calendaring: Why Isn’t It Just Like Email? investigates the current lack of interoperability for scheduling meetings between users on different calendaring servers, and also […]
Just finished up a call with Marc Gingras, the CEO of free/busy aggregator new entrant Tungle (see my March 27 Daily Report for earlier coverage). Tungle isn’t a new calendaring client per se, but rather a way of sharing free/busy information within groups and definitely across organizational boundaries. […]
Michael Sampson 