Scott Mace, CalendarSwamp guy, is on TWiT’s Inside the Net

by on July 21, 2006

You might not know it, but there’s a San Jose State University mafia and we’re going to take over the world. Someday.

Scott Mace helps out the SJSU cause by getting on TWiT’s Inside the Net. (Scott was in SJSU’s journalism program a decade before I was). TWiT (This Week in Tech) is the #1 rated tech podcast, and you can hear why when you listen. Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur are a lot of fun to listen to. Takes me back to when I ran Leo’s chat room when he was on KGO Radio back about a decade ago.

Seriously, Scott is doing the most excellent Calendar Swamp blog. Hmmm, the Google Calendar team invited me over to talk with them after I get back from vacation on August 14th. Hey, Scott, wanna go together?

Actually, listening to the show it sounds like he’d rather go and pound Microsoft’s calendar teams on the head. Turns out there’ll be a new calendar application in Windows Vista and it won’t sync with Outlook. Now, is that bright or what? Not good, not good at all.

Hey, Microsoft, do you really want Google Calendar to take over? I’m using it and it’s quite good and it only took me a few days to get used to it.

  • Don't you mean Inside the Net? TWIT is a separate podcast.
  • Marc: thanks for correcting me. I get all confused about such stuff. I saw the TWiT logo. The TWiT URL. And messed up. I've corrected it now.
  • Tom Nelson
    Thanks for the calendar tip. And if i send an invitation to someone using Outlook it acts just like an Outlook calendar invitation! Super! What is MS thinking???!
  • Twit? You mean, this week in Apple news? I listened to Twit for a few weeks, but all they talk about is Apple.
  • Actually, Windows Calendar, Google Calendar, iCal, Outlook 12, etc., ALL use and can interoperate with ICS calendars.
  • Sam Davyson
    Yes Steve buy if you here the podcast the point is whilst in theory they can, right now their ability to accurately sync up is terrible.
  • Robert, I'd be glad to tag along on your field trip to the Google Calendar team. Give me a shout and I'm there.

    Scott Mace
  • Jud
    You want interoperability in the OS? Turn back the clock to before when various governments started banning that sort of integration. You want sync with Outlook, you also have to sync with Google Calendar, Yahoo Calendar, and anyone else with a team of lawyers.
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