Google Calender

Google Calendar is another free feature from Google. With Google Calendar, users can share their schedules. It is useful for coordinating members of a team.

Google Calendar can be accessed by a mobile phone or handheld device, and it can be used offline. It features reminders that can be sent to a user's mobile phone. Invitations can be sent using Google Calendar, and RSVPs can be tracked using the program. It can interface with various other applications such as MS Outlook, Apple iCal, and Mozilla Sunbird.

For those who wish to share their schedule with the rest of the world, Google Calendar is just the tool. A user's Calendar can be displayed on a website in public. Google Calendar also has an "event reminder button" that can be added to a website. It allows other users to save an event from the Calendar as a reminder.

Google Snooze reminders are reminder notices that can be sent to Gmail accounts. This feature - which is associated with Google Talk gadget and Google Calendar - is in test phase. Essentially, the user can view a message or click "Snooze" to view it later.

Google Calendar has a number of appearance options, such as font size, orientation and color or black and white mode. Information that is available in the Google Calendar includes weather, moon phases, and reminders of the latest Google Doodle. Google Calendar is available in 40 languages, and it can be used with Verizon telephone.

Calendar Data API lets users install a Calendar into another application or website.

Calendar Publishing Tools allows Google calendar to be placed on a website. Event Gadgets can be used with Google calendar to add sidebars functions, like "Jump To Date", "Next Meeting", and "World Clock". For more information on Google calendar, users can refer to the Google calendar Data API. The API has a knowledge base and documentation, and it is actually a Google group.

Google calendar gadgets features an API that has a Developer's Guide, a Reference Guide, and Libraries and Code. Many of the Gadgets are custom HTML, but some are JavaScript components.

The CalDav protocol is a common protocol for developing applications that exchange information with Google Calendar. The Google calendar page on the Google code page features a Google Data API Blog and a Community Forum. Users can post questions in this Community, which is also another Google Group.

For more information, users can see the API Overview Guide or find someone who is fluent in Googlespeak.

The Google Calendar APIs and Tools page lists a number of articles, including "Creating a Google Data Gadget". These articles are like the material in a Developer's Guide. Here are some of the titles that are available in the Google Calendar APIs and Tools Articles Section: "CalVis: Creating a customized AJAX UI for your Google Calendar" (June 2008); Radish - Indoor Solar-powered Calendar Display (May 2008); Publishing Events - Mashing up Google Spreadsheets, Calendar and Base (June 2007).

In addition to articles on the subject of Google Calendar, Google has articles on Google Data API Topics. They include Getting Started with the Google Data PHP Client Library (October 2008); and Getting Started with the Google Data Java Client Library (September 2007).

As with anything online, the caveat is on privacy. It's usually more private to write something on paper than store it online.