Calendaring heats up

help.me sir

jeez!!!

Seeing as this post is attracting weirdo comments, I thought it the ideal place to post this:

When the time (inevitably) comes for Scoble: The Movie to be made, can I make a shout now for Philip Seymour Hoffman to play our Robert?

http://www.tribute.ca/tribute_objects/images/stars/philip_seymour.jpg

Separated at birth, I wonder?

omg, ppl spam everywhere these days

Isn’t Ray Ozzie blogging and a little higher?

Shit, that is bad. An excellent post followed by a troll… But, I thought you were moderating your comments… Apparently, you are not.

I have been hearing bout 30 boxes for quite some time and I am eagerly waiting to try it out. I am so waiting for Sunday.

Regards,
Shrikant Joshi

Shrikant: I deleted the comment in mind. Sorry about that. I don’t moderate comments but I will delete spam or comments that don’t have anything to do with technology.

You forgot the second one, Robert… (yeah, I am quite a nitpicker…) But, nice to see you respond.

Shit, I am so waiting for sunday…

PS: (Secret.Revealed: I am a poor planner. I hope 30B can help me organ-a-zize.)

If it schedules meetings among users and rooms, I will be able to toss Outlook/Exchange once and for all (the only critical app running on Windows).

That’ll be nice!

WTF, Scoble!?

And there you have it: The reason there are sooo many M$FT bashers (and Scoble bashers) and disproportionate amount of M$FT criticism is the overriding theme of “let’s buy them/that”.

How about innovating for a change, Mr. Scobleizer? Perhaps that’s a foreign concept to you and the rest of Gates, Inc.

Spend less time and money on M&A (or, more specifically – “A”) and more on R&D and get out of your rut.

If I had a penny for every time Scoble chanted “I wish Bill/Steve would buy” some new technology or company…I’d have a whole lotta pennies.

jAynBAiley: you’d have three pennies if I’m counting right.

When someone outside Microsoft does something innovative I’m all for an acquisition. Not everything cool will come from within Microsoft.

Wireless World: Real-time Head & Shoulders
CHICAGO, Feb. 3 (UPI) — A customer at a retail store picks a bottle of shampoo off the shelf, heads to the cashier, and pays for the product. The radio frequency identification (RFID) tag on the item sends a notice to the store’s network — alerting it that inventory has been reduced. The network automatically communicates with computers at the shipping center of the shampoo maker, which triggers a shipping notice that more shampoo is on the way to replenish the dwindling stocks of Head and Shoulders.

This vision of the retail store of the future may start to come into existence in the coming year, experts tell United Press International’s Wireless World. By Gene Koprowski

Thanks for for giving Steve Sinofsky a little prod on this, Scoble. The MS calendaring scenario has been embarassingly broken for a long time. It doesn’t delight this customer to have it be so hard to share calendars outside of the Exchange environment. I can’t be the only one who is very frustrated that I can’t easily have my business-related committments in Outlook, and see a shared calendar with my family at the same time.

I know what I’ll be downloading first thing Sunday.

It says beta testers only, right? How does one become a 30boxes beta tester? Should I try to get Nicolas and Laurent to give them coComment access codes?

Hey Robert.

How did you conclude that Steven is the highest ranked blogger at MS?

Guest: I made a mistake. It’s actually Ray Ozzie.

I am using 30boxes, it’s awesome! I think it beats out installed calendars by far.

I tried 30 Boxes earlier this week. The first thing I tried to schedule was a repeating meeting with an end date. Guess what? You can’t do that! You can have repeating meetings, but they repeat *forever*. Hello?? I do like the ease of sharing items with ‘buddies’, but there just seem to be many critical features missing.

I think the issue is that nothing cool ever comes out of Microsoft.

BTW checkout Joyent if you can. Actually show it to your engineers so they can realize what good user experience really means.

Sunny: nice fud. I wonder why all those people stood in line for 24 hours during Christmas to buy “nothing cool?”