{"id":234,"date":"2006-02-23T15:45:44","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T20:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/index.php\/2006\/02\/23\/hey-google-wheres-my-calendar\/"},"modified":"2006-02-23T15:45:44","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T20:45:44","slug":"hey-google-wheres-my-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/02\/23\/hey-google-wheres-my-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Google — where’s my calendar?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not content with controlling a majority of the market for online search and search-related advertising, Google has been rolling out add-ons to its online hegemony over the past year or so, including GTalk<\/a>, Google Analytics<\/a> and so on. And the most recent – not including the hideous and lame Google Page Creator<\/a> – was the addition of a hosted email and domain service<\/a>, which The Scobleizer got all upset about<\/a> for some reason.<\/p>\n

But there’s more. Garett Rogers, the ZDNet columnist who first spotted evidence of the hosted email solution — hidden inside the Javascript code that underlies Google’s Gmail webmail service — has found something else in the entrails of Google’s programming. It appears to be the precursor of a voicemail offering<\/a> Google plans to roll out, which would make sense considering that voice-over-Internet calling is part of its GTalk service. What would make more sense than bundling instant messaging, voice calling and voice messaging into one web-based application?<\/p>\n

So let’s think about that for a minute. Email, contact manager, voicemail, instant messaging all integrated into one app. What is it missing? If it were Microsoft’s Outlook, it would be missing a calendar, so you could schedule things with all your business or social contacts. So where’s the calendar, Google? It has been much rumoured<\/a> in the past, and rumours have sprung to life again more recently<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Will Google do it? It seems like a natural fit in many ways, and it could be one of the last links in the chain – apart from the word processor and spreadsheet part, of course – creating a Google hosted-Office suite of some kind. One thing is for sure: many people seem to want them to do it. And the customer is always right.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b><\/p>\n

Google also appears to be getting close to finally launching a Finance hub<\/a>. And Google Page Creator has been having some teething problems<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Not content with controlling a majority of the market for online search and search-related advertising, Google has been rolling out add-ons to its online hegemony over the past year or so, including GTalk, Google Analytics and so on. And the most recent – not including the hideous and lame Google Page Creator – was the … <\/p>\n

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