In my own backyard
I’m normally facing the prospect of jetting off to San Francisco to meet with anyone .. ANYONE… who knows AJAX and Web2.0 from a hole in the ground. But recently this has been changing and, even more exciting, I’m seeing companies spring up around here in the ‘burbs - far from the Manhattan skyline.
Back in May at the Business Smart Tools conference in Stamford, I met Elizabeth Souther Tarbell. Elizabeth is the founder of vivapop, an online calendar but so much more than that. Like any parent with children of a certain age, we can use online calendars but they are only as useful as our children’s information - when do I have to drop Lucy and Sara off at ballet and who’s picking Jeremy up from his playdate? But it’s even more complicated than that - with multiple sources of calendar information - schools, religious institutions, stores, etc. - the utility of online calendars is questionable unless that information can be centralized and synchronized.
vivapop handles this seamlessly and elegently. And Marshall Kirkpatrick of TechCrunch agrees:
The functionality is universally interesting though. Much like Google Calendar, multiple calendars can be managed with lots of Ajax and automatic updates pushed from publishers to subscribers. At launch the service is loaded with more than 100 public and private events calendars from organizations mostly in Greenwich, CT. Arts organizations, children’s activity centers and private schools dominate the list so far, but anyone anywhere can offer their organization’s calendar for publication.
Full article here. Any more companies like this and I won’t have to schlep out West quite so often.
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Interesting post, but Are We Online Calendar Obsessed? Read the following about Tucows buying Kiko and Vivapop launch their online calendar services at: http://techaddress.wordpress.com/2006/09/06/entrepreneurs-are-obsessed-with-online-calendars/