Google has launched Google Calendar. Google Calendar is a tool for accessing, managing and sharing appointments.


Google has launched Google Calendar. Google Calendar is a tool for accessing, managing and sharing appointments.

Google Calendar is available in beta version. Right now it is in English only.

According to Google Press Centre, Google is planning to globalize the product in the coming months. Google will also monitor the growth of google calendar to ensure high quality experience to google users.

Google is also looking forward to receiving feedback from the users.

According to Google Press, the features of Google Calendar include:

1. Ease of use

“Users can easily add events into the calendar. If users have a Gmail account, they may see an ‘Add to Calendar’ link appear alongside a message that mentions an event, whereby they can add this event to Google Calendar with just one click”.

2. One central location for calendar information

“Users can see the calendars of their friends, contacts and activity groups alongside their own schedules. They can import calendars from other applications that support the iCal and CSV formats. They will be able to search for public calendars on the web”.

3. Sharing and publishing

“Users can keep their calendars private, share calendars with a small group of people, or make their calendars publicly available and searchable on the web”.

4. Staying connected

“Users can set up automatic event reminders sent by email or text messages to their mobile phones to help them remember appointments”.

5. Open calendar format

Google Calendar was developed “using the open iCal and XML standards, enabling other calendar applications to interact directly with Google Calendar”.

For more information on Google Calendar, click here.

For Google Calendar tour, click here.

To sign up for Google Calendar, click here.

 

 

 

 

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