Yahoo! Calendar

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Yahoo! Calendar

Yahoo! Calendar beta
Developer:	Yahoo!
OS:	Any (web based application)
Use:	Electronic calendar
Website:	http://calendar.yahoo.com/ (old version)

One of the largest online calendar providers, serving millions of users, Yahoo! Calendar is a Web-based calendar service from Yahoo!. Others include Google Calendar, Upcoming, Multiply and Eventful. It can read calendar feeds and events syndicated from sites that make use of the published Yahoo! calendar programming interfaces. While users are not required to have a Yahoo! Mail account, they are required to have a free Yahoo! ID in order to use the software.

1 Features
2 Future
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Features

Yahoo! Calendar has the following features:

100 year calendar
various alarm features which allow you to send messages to numerous sources including:
- email
- mobile devices
- Yahoo! Messenger
the ability to sync your calendar with those of Palm devices and Microsoft Office Outlook and some SyncML enabled cellphones
sharing of schedules between users. The mechanism allows several different methods of sharing including publicly sharing your calendar, sharing your calendar with a specific Yahoo! Group, and sharing your calendar with a particular Yahoo! user.
automatically read, integrate, and republish public and personal events syndicated from Eventful, Upcoming, and Evite.

Events are stored online, so in the case of a user's hard drive failure, no data is lost. Calendar sharing is also available.

[edit] Future

Mail Beta and Calender

Yahoo! Calendar is currently being re-designed to integrate with Yahoo! Mail Beta (the current version of Mail Beta offers no real integration with Calendar). Apart from some minor releases, the majority of the new version of Calendar is under wraps, and not much of it has been revealed.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Yahoo! Calendar
DateDex — calendar directory, listing global events. Download/subscribe to calendars in iCalendar format
Eventful — collaboratively filtered, sharable, tagable, and widely syndicating smart calendars. Download/subscribe to calendars in iCalendar format
Upcoming — collaboratively filtered, shareable, tagable, and widely syndicating calendars. Download/subscribe to calendars in iCalendar format
Multiply — features socially networked and integrated calendars
Evite — Evite invitations and events can appear on your Yahoo! Calendar and your My Yahoo! page.
Online Calendars Review