27 October 2004
RSS Calendar…one of the best uses for RSS i have seen…
Posted by Mick (SplaTT) Stanic under: Blogging .
RSS Calendar is by far, one of the best uses for the RSS technology that i have seen.
I have been playing with it for a few days, and it makes sense to me…it makes sense to other blog writers (or RSS publishers) i quickly polled…and i’m damn sure it will makes sense to the average user out there…
Enter you events / meetings / whatever into the the calendar tool on the web site, either post the javascript file on your own web site or blog or get your friends to subscribe to the calendars RSS feed (or one of your calendar feed categories)..and thats it. Your friends will have instant upto date access to your calendar. If they like, they can even import the exact appointments / events into their “desktop” calendar program via vCal or iCal…
Below are examples of my feed for a conference category…
or subscribe to actual 
feed.
This is one cool little application…except (there is always a but or an except)…it needs to have an easy way to import appointments from you desktop app. It would be great to be able to import vCal or iCal files, or to have a little plug-in for Outlook or **insert email app of choice here** that would allow you to export XML ready data for import…well…it is in beta…fingers crossed…this is something i definately need to put into the Geek Dinner site…when i get around to finishing it :(
Well done guys…well done….
One Comment so far...
Treb Gatte Says:
29 October 2004 at 08:51.
Amen! I also think they need a way to populate calendars programmatically. I had an email exchange with John Pacchetti of RSS Calendar on this topic recently. He said they don’t have an api in the works, but if they do, it will be similar to the bloglines api. I think most of the current focus is on the output side of the house.
–Treb
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