Entries Tagged as ‘Online Calendars’

March 9, 2006

When good ideas go bad

I’m on a traffic rush tonight, so I’m just going to keep writing till I fall over…
I mentioned Trumba in the Fools post and I wanted to go into a little more depth because for me, these guys were the perfect example of a company who just didn’t follow the money.
Trumba had rocket fuel. Even [...]

March 8, 2006

Poor Web 2.0 fools

Is it starting to become obvious to people yet, that 99.9 per cent of these Web 2.0 consumer plays WILL die?
TechCrunch reviews the upcoming Google Calendar. If you valued one of the squillion of Web Calendering apps on the market at $10 yesterday, write them down to a cent today. They’re all gone.
The only play [...]

February 7, 2006

30 Boxes is the Bee’s Dick

The Om, The Scobleizer, The Hawke and all The Others think that the much-hyped 30 boxes is the bees knees. The Squash thinks its the bees dick; ie it falls well short of satisfying.
OK, on the upside. It looks OK, although I like Trumba’s visuals better. The free text parser is cool, but it follows [...]

February 5, 2006

Calendars aren’t stand alone apps

A lot of excitement around about 30 Boxes right now. Om says its the GMail of calendars. Thomas Hawk says Best Calendar Ever!
Scoble wants Microsoft to buy it, WordPress Matt is digging it (as in the old fashioned sense of the word) and Stowe has also joined the chorus.
Problem is - calendars aren’t stand-alone apps. [...]

January 31, 2006

F*cking awesome technology, shame about the name

I’d like to give two awards to SpongeCell, an AJAX calendar that got written up in TechCrunch today called SpongeCell.
The first awards is our F*cking Woeful award. SpongeCell? Dudes, that is truly an inherently bad, bad name, but it’s an even worse name for a calendar app. If there’s a single person out there able [...]