Google Calendar Gets Better Notification System
Calendar May 3rd, 2007 - By Haochi
Google Calendar now allows users to create multiple reminders for all of your events to be notified via email, SMS, and pop-up. Huh, pop up? (I am not a Google Calendar user) There are also a few minor updates, as announced in the Google Calendar Support Group.
Dextroz, as a (pissed off) ex-Google Calendar user, speaks out his frustration,
Unfortunately, it was a poor attempt. And even worse was Chris (GCal rep in groups) response. Below is my response to him in groups.
Secondary calendar reminders and other brand new features!
Looks they just managed to pull off another half-assed update and stuck it right there in the middle once more for their users.
Reading Chris’s new update post, who the f*** put a higher priority on “Expanded printing options” and “Send to friend feature” over SYNC and To-Do List?!!
Any moron reading the google posts here would have realized that Sync, Multiple calendar reminders and To do lists are the top 1,2,3 requests. What the hell are you smoking now to come up with baloney like that Chris? Are you spending too much time with the GCal coders?
This reminds me an episode of Diggnation when Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht makes fun of Google Calendar’s feature that shows full moon and half moon. Can’t remember the exact words, but it is something like, “Who sits in front a computer and wants to know when the moon is going to be full?”
Hilarious. ROFLMAO.
May 4th, 2007 at 2:04 am
Popup notification is javascript message (alert) windws which apears if you have web page of Google calendar opened. Not very userfulll, sms are better.
May 4th, 2007 at 3:26 am
It seems they have pulled down the new feature (at least for me).
May 4th, 2007 at 7:59 am
“Who sits in front a computer and wants to know when the moon is going to be full?
Actually, Haochi, a lot of calendars in the East are based on the Lunar phase - Lunar calendars. I am guessing, that’s the audience Google is attempting to reach with providing information on the phases of the moon.
May 4th, 2007 at 8:00 am
Correction here (my bad):
“…Multiple calendars and To do lists…”
Should read, “…Multiple calendars [reminders] and To do lists…”
Thanks!
May 4th, 2007 at 11:53 am
Get over it, it’s a free service.
May 4th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
@dextroz
Correction made.
Yeah, I have totally forgotten about that people in Asia (and maybe some other places) relies on that Lunar cycle…
@Ortzinator
I would have agree with you if this is last month, but after reading a news article (or something like that), I think that free stuff should be at the best quality. Anyways, I don’t use GCal. LOL
May 4th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
@dextroz It is true that the Chinese calendar is based on the moon phase, I don’t think it would help in any ways. It is just not accurate. (And as a Chinese, we don’t use our lunar calendar that much, mostly the older generation does, but I don’t think they would be using GCal.
May 5th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Ha, Keith, that’s very true! :)
May 5th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
@Ortzinator
actually, it is not a free service. It is part of google apps and i moved my dad’s company to it with a paid package.
@Keith
i can’t vouch for it’s accuracy but i do know that 100% of all non-political indian holidays, family events, festivals are based on the lunar calendar. the dates change every year based on the phases. since gogleplex has a significant number of indian employees i can see why they would want to have a lunar calendar/ phases setup available to them without having to call their family back in india every time they want to know the exact date of an event.
what really ticks me off is that the calendar website is run so unprofessionally with no user communication or transparency. every other google service either has a very active googlegroup with reps always present. or the service has a blog which provides for some communication with their user base.