We’ve launched the latest version sorry it took so long. We now have the ability directly from the Planypus emails to add the info to google calendar, outlook/ical, and facebook.

Anybody else out there willing to re-write code like that is truly dedicated. Better than that, your customer focus is your only insurance that you’ll continue to thrive. It looks like you’ve set yourself up well with a great team too. Remember folks, no good design work is done in a vacuum.

Anything I say in thanks sounds like repetitious drivel, as you stayed up till 2am after working a full day and don’t live in a dorm. Wow.

(Who doesn’t miss dorm life a little though?)

Sure, you’re gonna make me eat my words and everything aren’t you? Hah!

I’m delighted to know people that can effect real change are reading this. As a product designer, I know that it can be hard when people criticize projects or products you have spent blood sweat and tears on to perform in a manner you designed. Then, some jerkwad who thinks he “knows what’s best” makes some uninformed statement and people come out of the woodwork to let them know where they stand.

The nice thing about this, is the informed and functional (ie people who can do something about making a real change) can participate and make something happen to help people.

Thank you, I’m off to give planypus a thorough testing,
(time passes)

So I put together a first event Yan, nice. Simple and straightforward. I made a few little mistakes, but all in all well done. The best thing you’ve done seems to be linking with local events and eateries. That can always be the kicker, plus the voting, nice touch (are you watching evite?!)

Obviously it’s still beta, but I think you’re really moving forward with a great service. I know your pain on developing out of your own pockets (I’m there too).

Airset, is attempting to do well within it’s own system, but it seems my major complaint is still unaddressed.

The key I’m looking for is communication across software packages (I do commend airset for having a complete solution, however, it seems only to be a solution within it’s own group). I bet those small businesspeople want to let the people they work with/sell to/buy from know things as well, yet they have to send data to them, and they have to re-input it into their own format.

Imagine how many events are missed every year by people who transpose dates and times of events by even one single digit. A date, a time.

If you plan to watch a Formula 1 race with a buddy and show up an hour late, what happens there? (oh right, you just missed more than half the race!)

Keep up the great comments though, tons of stuff I hadn’t seen that is getting us closer to a real solution!

here’s who they list that they work with 30 Boxes, Apple’s iCal application, Darwin Calendar Server, Contactizer and iPod, Chandler, Drupal with its event module, Citadel, Facebook, FirstClass, Google Calendar, Jalios JCMS, KOrganizer, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Entourage, Mozilla Calendar (including Mozilla Sunbird), Mulberry, Novell Evolution, Nuvvo, Simple Groupware, Upcoming.org, Windows Calendar, Webical, Zimbra Collaboration Suite, and Microsoft Outloo

my question is, why aren’t they advertising that this is out there and operational?! It says its “in all of them” but how do we properly access that functionality, or is it “hidden” behind other actions?

I don’t know a soul using it anywhere and it seems so good.

So in the US you pay for *receiving* SMS messages? That sucks. We pay for sending them but mobile providers don’t charge you for receiving by default. (it is possible to have that model but it’s the exception rather than the norm)

As for the SMS, I just don’t want to be charged for every single text when my pilot should just beep at me, (or I could check my email or a piece of paper in the place of Scrybe)

Thank you Marc

It’s a good point – if everyone’s using the same system then it works but as soon as people have different apps it all falls apart. The iCal “standard” was supposed to be an interoperable format of sharing calendar info but again it depends on the various applications implementing it correctly.

It should go as follows,
.evt is an event file or .mtg (though that would seem to designate meetings)

and for an additional, typical thing that should be emailable
.do (a “do” file) to send out a task, you could event send it to multiple people and attach it to other files in the email so that they had the rescources they need included with the task. (including links and other items).

Thoughts?