Creeva’s World 2.0

Pic­ture from here

Pre­vi­ously I railed against Google Docs and my issues with them there, now it’s the Google Cal­en­dar’s Team that I’m hav­ing issues with.   I want to love Gcal.  I really truly and deeply do.   I do love it more then Microsoft Out­look’s Cal­en­dar, but that is still an issue since it doesn’t have com­plete inte­gra­tion with Microsoft Exchange.  I have how­ever recently con­fig­ure my Out­look cal­en­dar to sync with Gcal with a nifty tool Google released.  For that I bless them.  No more hacks or work arounds, or siphon­ing data through Plaxo to get this going.   I still use Plaxo, but I don’t need a desk­top client for it any­more, it repli­cates the back end inter­net data now.

Now I’ve said every­thing (well not really but I spoke nice about them) that I like about Gcal.  Let’s look at some of the things I want.  The first thing that I have always wanted was the abil­ity to import RSS feeds into to Gcal.  I’m not talk­ing news feeds that I want to read, but per­sonal lifestream­ing data that I can track about myself.  I should be able to use Google Cal­en­dar as a per­sonal diary of events, but this leads to a lot of back track­ing because of the man­ual work this would cause.

Another option that would allow me to deal with the fact that I can not import RSS feeds would be allow us to send in events via E-mail.  You allows us to send in events via SMS (which I don’t use since i don’t pay for  an SMS plan) — yet not e-mail?  It’s not really a band­width thing since most of your users are prob­a­bly using Gmail any­ways.   I don’t get it.

Final thing I would like, the abil­ity to attach a file (which in real­ity could be stored in Google Docs) to an event.  Whether it would be a pic­ture (ok this would be Pica­s­aweb for stor­age) or a pre­sen­ta­tion, this would lead to a more orga­nized life for busi­ness users mak­ing a transition.

Give us some killer apps, you have us as users, now keep us.   Show us some love.