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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.04.07/Thu/gcal.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.04.07/Thu/gcal.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..136c5a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.04.07/Thu/gcal.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Google has added a directory of public calendars to Google Calendar to make browsing and finding calendars a little bit easier. The new directory is organized into 8 categories: popular, TV shows, sports, events, entertainment, miscellaneous, holidays, and Google-related. + +The [new listings][1] contain calendars from across the web as well as those created in Google Calendar. As a nice touch there's a "preview" option that will overlay a calendars events on top of your current calendar before you commit to subscribing. + +Unfortunately Google has made searching your public calendars the default option. There's a new button that will restrict searches to your own agenda, but typing a search and hitting return will only show results from your public calendars, which seems backwards to me. + +Why not search personal events by default? Or at least both by default. Hopefully Google will address this unnecessary complication issue in the future. + +In fact, as Ionut Alex Chitu [points out on Google Operating System][2], the new features have unnecessarily complicated Google Calendar in other ways as well. + +>The fact that Google Calendar complicates itself unnecessarily is obvious if you look at how many options are available to add a new calendar: you can add a public calendar, or the calendar of one of your contacts, you can enter the URL or just upload it. And each option has a different place in the interface. + +While it's now easier to find calendar data, it's much more complex to organize and search it, making Google's upgrade something of letdown. + +Previously finding calendars was possible only by searching. + +[1]: http://www.google.com/calendar/render?mode=gallery&cat=POPULAR "Google directory of public calendars" +[2]: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/06/googles-gallery-of-public-calendars.html "Google's gallery of public calendars"
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