Wanted: RSS Calendar Plugins
January 15th, 2005First, the del.icio.us popular feed is one of my favorite things ever. I’ve discovered so many great things from it. The latest is RSS Calendar. RSS calendar allows you to maintain a calendar of events on the web. Once an event is entered, it’ll show up in your event feeds. For instance, I’m going to see HEM on Wednesday. The event will pop in my daily feed on Wednesday, my weekly feed a week beforehand, my monthly feed…you get the point. You’ll notice on the left hand of my website an aggregated feed of events which show this in action.
In the event description you’ll see that there are VCal and ICal files for the event. But this whole scenario is missing something : plugins for Outlook, iCal, Sunbird, and other calendaring software which looks at your feed and automatically imports the events. Then, I’d have a web calendar that not only integrated with my aggregator, but it’d sync nicely with all my different software.
I might be able to have a cut an Outlook plugin. Any other takers?
January 29th, 2005 at 11:36 am
Great ideas and suggestions. For me, it’s been such a time issue to get things completed. I really welcome the help. 3 new features that need to be developed 1) Firefox Extension 2) REST Interface and 3) Outlook sync. In addition to the plugins you’ve mentioned.
Did you know the RSS Feed for your events also contains and ‘enclosure’ tag a direct link to the ICal download. Your plugins could grab this directly – just like podcasting grabs the enclosure. Just a thought.
R/
John Pacchetti