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Six months later, Airset *still* gorilla-humps Google Calendar

Nov 03

by Justice~! Personal | Technical

The more things change, the more they...okay, this diagram is a bit different than previous

Six months ago, I posted about Airset gorilla-humping Google Calendar, complete with diagram of copulating gorillas. Most people agreed, with the exception of Michael McClenaghan. Of course, since that time Michael culled his list of blog feeds and now seems to spend the majority of his time looking at pictures of other people's kids - not exactly the behavior you'd associate with a qualified technical resource! Airset 3,876,123, Google 1.

In the interest of fairness, however, I thought I would revisit Airset and Google Calendar and see what new features have cropped up in the last half year:

Airset new features:

beta of their new Planner, which now gives the drag and drop functionality that Google Calendar has had
mobile service for Java-enabled handsets

Airset features that are not necessarily new but definitely impact me and others in my search:

Airset does have .ics support!
Instructions on how to sync with the Mac's ICal! Rock on!

Google Calendar new features:

you can now add phases of the moon to your calendar.
and that's pretty much it.
Seriously? Moon phases? Who was clamoring for *this*?

6 months have gone by and Airset had added the missing features that I would have needed, and Google is futzing around with icons. I'd love to meet the person whose 20% research time was spent dreaming up this thing! In fairness, it's nice to have some fun stuff in apps as well, and I *do* like Google - I am nothing if not a complete whore for Gmail. But I think we can now all admit to ourselves that Airset can be capably upgraded to Google Calendar killer...well, except for Michael, unless Airset adds some randomized toddler picture thing.

Comments

#1 Simon on 7/29/2008 6:45:51 PM

I love the enthusiasm! I just started working here at AirSet this year and recently saw this blog.

Since this posting, AirSet has become an increasingly great tool for groups. It's easy to share, coordinate, communicate, and collaborate with all different kinds of groups, anything from a soccer team to a temporary group for planning a wedding or throwing a party.

Recently we have implemented the capability of customizing group main pages. Each main page can now have internal AirSet widgets - such as a calendar widget or a list widget - as well as external widgets pulled from different external sources. This capability is great for groups because often in a group there are certain people who do more in the group, such as organizers, and others that do less, such as group members that use the group to get all the information they need but are not involved with manipulating or managing the group. The widgets allow people to have access to all the information in the group without having to go deep into the applications.

Recently, we have also re-positioned ourselves as a provider of Shared Web Computers. Users can have a Shared Web Computer for each of their groups. The group can share digital files, build websites, organize their activities, and coordinate their schedules, and each group member can access this Web Computer from their own personal computer.

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