Posts with keyword: calendar


Fuse is a Telemetrics Platform for Your Car: Trips on Your Calendar

Fuse is more than just a connected-car app. Fuse is a telemetrics platform for your car. This post shows how I was able to, in a few hours, create an iCalendar feed for the trips that my truck takes and automatically put them on my calendar. This illustrates why I believe calendars will be one of the key UI components of the Internet of Things.
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Brian Dear on Eventful and EVDB (ETech 2006)

Brian Dear from EVDB and Eventful is speaking on calendar as platform. His talk is title "When Do We Get the Events We Want?" He gives a quick overview of the company. EVDB stands for the Events and Venues Database. The goal is to maximize event discovery. The Web has done a pretty bad job of getting people to the events they're interested in. Making data for events open and portable is important, so is having the right tools to manage that data. The company has a platform called EVDB and a portal called Eventful. Anyone can use EVDB.
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Calendaring Tools

I put a piece up at Between the Lines on calendaring tools and in particular, SpongeCell a nifty online calendaring tool that accepts English language commands for creating appointments.
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