Introducing Google Calendar Labs
It’s hard to believe it’s been more than three years since we introduced Google Calendar to the world. (It’s true, I just checked my calendar.) In that time we’ve received countless ideas and suggestions, including many from my fellow Googlers, and trying to decide which of those to build can be is difficult. We try to balance usefulness and impact, but often that’s not enough. A feature may be useful to only a small handful of people, but to those folks it might...
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Google Calendar Gadgets Appearing
Andrew Pariser emails in a surprise finding in Google Calendar (if by any chance you’re able to reproduce this – I’m not – please comment): Opened up gcal today, to find an interesting new “Gadgets” link under the google logo. Clicking it opens a right side pane that introduces a gadgets menu and a selection of gadgets to choose from: Add Tasks Add Googler Search Add Jump to Date Add Next Meetings Add Time Zones Add Where Are My Friends? I also have a nice “INTERNAL ONLY”...
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Google Spreadsheets Data Validation
Google Spreadsheets, part of Google Docs , has a new feature: cell content validation. For instance, you can select a column which is supposed to contain email addresses only See more here: Google Spreadsheets Data Validation
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Sync Google Calendar and Contacts with Mobile Devices
A number of official Google blogs have just announced that Google Sync – a way of synchronizing your Google Calendars and Contacts with mobile devices – is now available for iPhone and Windows Mobile, and that other devices which support SyncML can also use Google Sync, but only for contacts. Google Sync, which was previously only available for Blackberry devices, uses “push” technology, which means that any online updates made to either your Google Account or Google Apps account –...
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