Google Calendar is Here

The long awaited Google Calendar is here and it's pretty cool. You can share your calendar and create other calendars to share or keep private. You can also choose which calendars you want to see at the click of a mouse. I was able to download the CSV file containing the Padres 2006 schedule and import it into a second calendar so I can see when they play. Really cool to play with the overlay feature and see just the Padres schedule or just my schedule or both at the same time for scheduling. There is also a feature that lets you search for other public calendars and add them as well.

This screenshot shows an example of both calendars overlayed:

Here is a shot of a new calendar entry being created. It is cool how you can invite people via email and how there is a selection for letting those people invite others:

You can get to Calendar via HTTPS as well as normal HTTP which is a nice feature. Oddly, at the top of calendar there is a link to Gmail but not the other way around. And be careful, if you are in Calendar via HTTPS, clicking the link to GMail takes you to the unencrypted (HTTP) session.

You can take a tour which will explain it in more details: Google Calendar Tour
TechCrunch has more details as does CNet

Tags: google, calendar, google+calendar