So, this is the moment I have been waiting for since i heard google was releasing a calendar. And it has finally arrived — a year after the initial speculations occurred.

The reason i was hoping for a calendar like this was because i use Gmail (and if you don’t i highly recommend you switch) and i had this inkling that google would use its ’smart’ technology to search my emails and then with one click add an event that was suggested in my email. In other words. Now, when i get an email from someone that says, “Joel, can you meet on tuesday the 16 for lunch” Google puts a calendar link on the right hand side and automatically takes me to my calendar and adds the event if I confirm that it works.

Now, this may not seem all that cool, but what it does is it safes me from having to open up another program, go to the right date, see if I am available, respond, then go back to the other calendar program, fill in the date, and hope that in all those 12 steps i didn’t goof osmething up. Like put it in my calendar on the wrong day, or the wrong time.

So, if you don’t have Gmail get it and if you don’t have gcalendar, get it. (you need a gmail account to get use of their calendar)

How’s that for google evangelism?

peace
joel

UPDATE: This was in an article I just read “Google released the most-anticipated calendar since Pope Gregory XIII decreed the modern date-tracking system in 1582″ How funny is that?