Google Calendar API posts new read and write features. They have added: owncalendars: contains the collection of calendars that a user 'owns' allcalendars: contains all the calendars that a user has access to Useful for listing all your calendars if you manage a lot of them, or changing their settings all at once (both features have read and write capabilities)
After being inspired about Google Gadgets from the Google Developer Podcast I came up with one that my old crew team can use. We have a shared google calendar that some of us use to keep track of races, meetings, etc. This gadget pulls and formats it nicely for the google IG or desktop. Add to Google Javascript code for the gadget:
Google Gadgets can now be added to your calendar. Previously the only gadgets I had on my calendar were Google Doodles, Weather, phases of the moon, and PicasaWeb Photo of the day. Now just about anything is going to be possible. I briefly played around with it this morning and added horoscopes and Sudoku to my calendar. Other new gadgets include Movie Release dates and famous people's birthdays. I expect that very soon there will be video game releases as well. Documentation is out for the gadgets, so get…
I haven't been able to post as often or as in depth as I'd like to have this past month. I chalk it up mostly to work, we all love 12 hour days right? But now that sign-off has passed and our last release of 2007 is calmly approaching (its on Friday), things have settled down a bit. Below are some great links from October, most of which I wanted to mention at some point and haven't gotten a chance to until now. Enjoy. The JavaScript Library for Google Calendar was released. This allows for authenticated…
As I said earlier, Quite a few presentations from Google I/O have been posted for your viewing pleasure. I'll be glued to these this weekend while I'm on call. Topics include Ajax KML Sketchup Android OpenSocial Appengine Data APIs Theory Talks Youtube Gears Mashups Maps and more!
4 of my 5 most used Google apps now have offline access through Gears (Gmail, Docs, and reader being the other). I use picasa heavily also but there is way too much data there for gears. Head over to your calendar to add the feature.