Archive for April, 2006

Seattle Mind Camp 2.0 is Tomorrow

I am very excited about tomorrow's mind camp. This is my second one and this time I am prepared (or so I think), how can you prepare for something that is described like this:

" What happens when you put 200 of Seattle's smartest geeks in a creative environment for 24 hours? We're not sure either, but we'd like to find out. It's time to meet and connect with those involved in the interesting projects going on in Seattle in a relaxed environment. Come, camp out, create."

Here is a blog entry that helps understand what to expect and the philosophy behind it:

Getting ready for Seattle Mind Camp – The Philosophical Guide

More later!

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goodbye 30boxes. hello google. and yes it’s got popups!

The title of this post is the exact subject line of an email that a friend of mine whom I evangelized 30boxes a few days ago. I have tried a lot of calendar web apps and here was my initial quick response to him.

On 4/13/06, Ali Rizvi <aliabbasrizvi AT *.com> wrote:

Yes, I noticed it on slashdot this morning from the Canada on Rails conference floor. Yes, it is the first ever conference on Ruby on Rails and I am here in Vancouver, BC to attend it.

It is interesting I got email from both Kiko and Airset this morning announcing new features.

Here is my initial observation on kiko vs 30boxes vs Google Calendar.

Google Calendar and Kiko => does not work on Safari, 30boxes does
Google Calendar does not have recurring appointment, kiko does it but not intelligently, 30boxes does it intutitively
Google Calendar's Kiko's Natural Language Processing natural language processing is less intelligent than 30boxes.
Google Calendar does not share based on tags, 30boxes does but Google has Public sharing option which can hide details but show busy/available information which is definitely good.

These are just my initial finding and I have only looked at Google Calendar and new Kiko for few minutes and not even tried Airset yet. I will come up with a detailed review may be later.

Let me know how the pop ups that you said work. I might try it soon.

Regards,

Ali

On 4/13/06 A Friend wrote:

http://slashdot.org/articles/06/04/13/045247.shtml

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