I quit my IT desk job a couple months ago to go to work for Kiko Online Calendar (http://www.kiko.com) doing their interface design. Now that we've release our new and MUCH improved version I thought I'd post our informal release notes on here. I figure that since I am a fellow alumni and former TWW addict (well addicted to lurking) that gives me carte blanche to use T-dub for shameless self promotion.

Let me know what you think...

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"Remember web2.0 progenitor, Kiko.com? YCombinator's Kiko team has released a new version that completely revamps the look and feel of the September 2005 beta. Kiko still has the same drag and drop functionality that it pioneered in its beta but now it sports a brand new, and much cleaner, interface and a whole host of new features: appointment reminders via email, text messages, and AIM, RSS feed for upcoming events, Natural Language Quick Create (ex: "3/26 2am Raid on Ironforge [WoW] +thrall +gromhellscream"), import appointments and contacts via iCal and vCard, and personal public URLs for your calendar. "

3/22/2006 8:31:29 PM

the yellow box for when you save settings shows up in the top corner - it's kind of out of my visual field when i click save - move it closer

looks decent - needs more functionality but i doubt you're the guy to talk to about that

3/22/2006 8:50:38 PM

More functionality eh... what would you suggest?

3/22/2006 9:37:28 PM

did you just copy outlook?

3/22/2006 9:39:08 PM

Choose wisely karate kid style

3/22/2006 9:44:12 PM

well for starters, auto sync with outlook

3/23/2006 12:01:04 AM

pray that google doesn't make a calendar

3/23/2006 9:23:33 AM

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/08/exclusive-screenshots-google-calendar/

3/23/2006 9:27:42 AM

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"pray that google doesn't make a calendar"

very true..... and way too late

[Edited on March 23, 2006 at 10:21 AM. Reason : .]

3/23/2006 10:20:50 AM

We've currently got someone working on a sync service that for Outlook, iCal, what have you.

Yeah, google is coming out with their calendar and its obviously a concern. Not much I can do about that except keep working on Kiko and hope it ends up like Google feed reader.

Seriously though, I've seen the screenshots of CL2 and wonder how much we tipped our hand to them when we met with them last December. whoops

[Edited on March 23, 2006 at 10:39 AM. Reason : e]

3/23/2006 10:36:39 AM

NDA is a developer's best friend

3/23/2006 10:55:45 AM

Actually if the uptime on CL2 is anything like Google Mail ever since the chat debacle ^H^H^H rollout we have nothing to worry about

3/23/2006 2:27:08 PM

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"More functionality eh... what would you suggest?"

How about bulk import for calendar and contacts?

3/23/2006 2:35:05 PM

more CL2 screenshots: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sk3/tags/cl2/

3/23/2006 3:20:17 PM

this is actually a good calendar
http://www.calendarhub.com/

3/23/2006 3:21:47 PM

continuous sync with outlook, ical, etc even better.

3/23/2006 6:29:26 PM

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"How about bulk import for calendar and contacts?"

Actually we have iCal and vCard import functionality

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"continuous sync with outlook, ical, etc even better."

Thats on our todo list http://kiko.infogami.com/help

3/23/2006 9:09:22 PM

looks pretty nice, I signed up. although i'll have to see this google calendar when it is revealed.

the "remember me" feature isn't working for me (in IE and FF) and the "account settings" will not allow me to change to default privacy to "public". but nice work nonetheless

3/24/2006 12:04:49 AM

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" the "remember me" feature isn't working for me (in IE and FF) and the "account settings" will not allow me to change to default privacy to "public". but nice work nonetheless"

Yeah the remember me thing keeps getting regressed for some reason.. the account settings bug we fixed a while ago.

We've added a lot in the last few weeks and we are adding feed subscriptions today so check us out again.

4/5/2006 12:03:49 PM

bump

8/17/2006 9:11:28 AM

I'm checking this out. Right now I use http://www.calendars.net/ but I don't like some of the functions.

8/17/2006 12:12:26 PM

thx bobby

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/16/ajax-calendar-kikocom-goes-on-ebay-offers-to-delete-accounts/

8/17/2006 3:21:15 PM

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120021374185

8/17/2006 4:37:50 PM

brokeNp1mp ?

8/18/2006 7:17:04 AM

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"pray that google doesn't make a calendar"

WHOOPS.

8/18/2006 10:14:58 AM

not bad
http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/08/27/web-2-bubble-aint-popped-yet-kiko-sells-for-258100/
http://www.venturevoice.com/2006/08/startup_sold_on_ebay_for_25810.html

8/27/2006 6:02:21 PM