Yahoo! Calendar

Yahoo! Calendar is a Web-based calendar service from Yahoo! It is one of the biggest online calendar providers on the Internet, serving millions of users (others include Hotmail).

Yahoo! Calendar is currently being re-designed to integrate with Yahoo! Mail Beta (the current version of Mail Beta offers no real integration with Calendar). Apart from some minor releases, the majority of the new version of Calendar is under wraps, and not much of it has been revealed.

On October 8 2008, Yahoo! showcased a preview for the new Yahoo! Calendar. New Features include support for open standards, support for subscriptions to any iCalendar based public calendar, Flickr integration, drag & drop functionality. Features slated for release but that are not yet ready include Outlook auto-sync, integration with other yahoo properties, and options to download other relevant calendars. The new Calendar also comes with a completely redesigned interface.

Features

Yahoo Calendar has the following features:

• 100 year calendar
• various alarm features which allow you to send messages to numerous sources including:
  
  • email
  • mobile devices
  • Yahoo! Messenger
• The ability to sync your calendar with those of Palm devices and Microsoft Outlook.
• Sharing of schedules between users. The mechansim allows several different methods of sharing including publically sharing your calendar, sharing your calendar with a specific Yahoo! Group, and sharing your calendar with a particular Yahoo! user.

Links

• Yahoo! Calendar
• DateDex - Calendar directory, listing global events. Download / Subscribe to calendars in iCalendar format