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[...] acquired from Plaxo’s acquisition of HipCal has delivered new calendar features including an “upcoming” view that includes weather, [...]

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By: Tech Industry » Plaxo Acquires Calendar Startup HipCal

Tech Industry » Plaxo Acquires Calendar Startup HipCal — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:22:03 +0000

[...] “Plaxo says they will integrate HipCal â??s calendaring product directly into Plaxoâ??s free product, and expand premium calendar services as well.”read more | digg story [...]

By: Geeks in Boston » Google: “You gonna eat that? [chomp]”

Geeks in Boston » Google: “You gonna eat that? [chomp]” — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:12:36 +0000

[...] The optimistic school of thought says it’s a good thing when Big Company A enters your market. It means Big Companies B and C are going to do the same, soon, and what could be easier than acquiring a nimble little startup? It might have kinda worked for HipCal, which was acquired by Plaxo shortly after Google Calendar launched. Of course, we don’t know how the numbers in that deal, leading to comments like this one by Brad Root on TechCrunch: It’s almost like you could hear the HipCal developers frantically shopping it around to as many people as possible, spurred on by Google Calendar’s release. [...]

By: Wilco Niessen dot com » Blog Archive » Plaxo Acquires Calendar Startup HipCal

Wed, 03 May 2006 10:06:19 +0000

[...] “Plaxo says they will integrate HipCal’s calendaring product directly into Plaxo’s free product, and expand premium calendar services as well.”read more | digg story Posted by Wilco Filed in Tech [...]

By: Tawheed Kader dot com

Tawheed Kader dot com — Wed, 03 May 2006 06:27:12 +0000

[...] I’ve been meaning to start up tawheedkader.com for a good 4 years now. I figured today would be a better day than any to finally bring this site online! Why today you ask?The official announcement was finally made today! While a lot of the members of the team just wanted to blurt out at any given family function how we actually have jobs and aren’t just some crazy frat boys working on a site called MyPIMP, we just couldn’t until today!Anyway, after many nights of PHP coding, listening to Pete sing songs about my Bangladeshi-ness to the tune of this guitar and listening to Garret complain about how crazy of an idea Daylight Savings Time is, we’ve come to a point that confirms to the five of us that we’re not crazy after all. Then again, maybe we are, and maybe that’s why HipCal became so successful in such a short period of time.Either way, long story made short, HipCal has officially been acquired by Plaxo. We’re teaming up to create the next awesome web calendar. You can read more about the HipCal acquisition from the articles below:Plaxo’s Personal Card (Plaxo’s Blog)Plaxo to Acquire Web 2.0 Calendar Start-Up HipCal (Yahoo! Finance)Plaxo Buys HipCal (Red Herring)Plaxo Acquires Calendar Startup HipCal (TechCrunch)Plaxo Puts HipCal In Its Pocket (Web Pro News)HipCal to relocate to Silicon Valley after purchase by Plaxo (The Business Review)More Press Updates (5/2/2006)Plaxo Inc. acquires online calendar start-up (San Jose Bizjournal)Plaxo finds new way to annoy Internet users (CNN Money…jerks)To Whom It May Concern: Here’s My Calendar (Internet News)Fitchburg High to Silicon Valley (I’m quoted in this one!) (Telegram and Gazette)RPI students’ startup purchased by Silicon Valley-based company (Daily Gazette)Plaxo Acquires HipCal (Rev2)Plaxo Acquires Calendar Startup HipCal (Money501)HipCal to Plaxo (Ivan Multescu on Web 2.0)Plaxo gets HipCal (InfoWorld Tech Watch) [...]

By: Laura Ricci

Laura Ricci — Tue, 02 May 2006 16:08:39 +0000

Plaxo bought HipCal for two reasons:
Pick up the customer base from HipCal, and eliminate a potential competitor as the market was forcing them to add a calendar feature anyway.
This was a good business development move, not a move to acquire technology, which, as has been said already, Plaxo could have created for themselves.
The users are more valuable than the code.

By: Sean Hayford O'Leary

Sean Hayford O'Leary — Tue, 02 May 2006 14:55:21 +0000

This is a big disappointment. I loved HipCal. Note the past tense.

By: Brad Root

Brad Root — Tue, 02 May 2006 10:58:02 +0000

Nice to see Plaxo stand up for themselves, and HipCal.

I was a HipCal fan until day light savings time made it replicate all of my all-day events across two days and pushed everything two hours back in time. Then, two weeks later, as if by magic, when the HipCal problem still wasn’t fixed, gcal was released and, well, I haven’t been back since. That was a lot of commas.

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footerest » Blog Archive » Plaxo Acquires Calendar Startup HipCal — Tue, 02 May 2006 02:38:03 +0000

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By: Ben Golub

Ben Golub — Tue, 02 May 2006 02:32:18 +0000

Some really interesting discussion here.

While we at Plaxo probably should just let Ben Smith’s cogent (and brief) comment above speak for itself, the discussion here and elsewhere inspired me to do a follow up post.
(http://blog.plaxo.com/archives/2006/05/hipcal_part_ii.html)

Hopefully, the post comes close on answering:

1)Why does this make sense for Plaxo Users?

2)Why does this make business sense for Plaxo?

3)How can you compete with Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft in this area?

Looking forward to your thoughts

By: Practical Blogging

Practical Blogging — Tue, 02 May 2006 01:58:28 +0000

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By: Noam Lovinsky

Noam Lovinsky — Tue, 02 May 2006 01:37:39 +0000

Don’t feed the trolls Michael.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Tue, 02 May 2006 00:47:26 +0000

Paul, thanks for the swipe, I always enjoy those.

I added the release because it wasn’t online at the time of posting so I couldn’t link to it. I thought some people would like to see the additional information.

Thanks though, its great to be called lazy and offensive. Makes me think staying up all night to post crap at 5 am is totally worth it.

By: Paul Irish

Paul Irish — Tue, 02 May 2006 00:38:20 +0000

I hope reposting press releases doesnt become a trend here. It’s terribly lazy and offensive to your readers.

By: web20guy

web20guy — Mon, 01 May 2006 23:32:25 +0000

Plaxo could have built it.

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Mon, 01 May 2006 23:02:10 +0000

Plaxo has massive amounts of users and access to thier Outlook and who each user knows. Building a calender sharing service out of that is a no brainer in terms of beginning to build value out of the network that Plaxo has built. This probably makes the most sense as one of a series of acquisitions to provide value to the Plaxo user base. As an investor in another calender related company, TimeBridge, I can say that starting with the massive base of users that Plaxo has would be a huge asset. It will be interesting to see how this takes thier viral growth even further now that there is incremental value. Plaxo has been smart about Growth, Usage, Value and getting this order right in a business that is clearly built based on a network.

By: G

Mon, 01 May 2006 19:28:55 +0000

I’d say Plaxo bought it because it’s a darn good product (plus they get the people), and they need it remain competitive. I use HipCal having checked out many of the alternatives. Only Google would rival it for my purposes, but it doesn’t have a full year display. For the future a lot will depend how integration aspects develop.

By: Brad Root

Brad Root — Mon, 01 May 2006 19:18:11 +0000

It’s almost like you could hear the HipCal developers frantically shopping it around to as many people as possible, spurred on by Google Calendar’s release.

HipCal Dev 1: Dude, Google Calendar.

HipCal Dev 2: Yeah, man.

HipCal Dev 1: If the highest anyone will offer us is $1,000, we’ll take it. OK?

HipCal Dev 2: I’m not a moron, man.

Plaxo: Hey guys, we have absolutely no use for your product since our own guys could make something like HipCal in a few hours (and it wouldn’t freak out come day-light savings time and duplicate everyone’s events), but we understand your plight and we’ve personally pooled together about $900.

HipCal Devs (Uninamously): We’ll take it!

By: Razvan

Razvan — Mon, 01 May 2006 18:37:48 +0000

@zealot :)) it was an example there are plenty out there

By: zealot

zealot — Mon, 01 May 2006 18:06:56 +0000

@razvan
because Kiko sucks!

By: TheWeb20Dev

TheWeb20Dev — Mon, 01 May 2006 18:05:25 +0000

A crazy acquisition.

By: Dave P

Dave P — Mon, 01 May 2006 17:32:26 +0000

What kind of Kool-Aid are you people drinking down in Cali anyway?

As Andrew said, you’ve got all three of the heavywieghts in the online Calendar market, Google having just released.

Exactly what benefit/business sense does it make to aquire a calendar right now? Methinks that come 2 months, the value in such a venture would be next to nothing, so you could scoop it up for nothing if you wanted to (or just link to the big three via API).

Like a lot of stuff on this site, I’m just not getting it… if somebody does, please explain this to me, seriously!

By: Plaxo's Personal Card

Plaxo's Personal Card — Mon, 01 May 2006 16:50:38 +0000

Question: What do Plaxo, Pimps, and Hippopotamuses have in common?…

Answer: HipCal (www.hipcal.com). Plaxo announced today the acquisition of HipCal, LLC, based in Troy, NY. You can read the formal press release at: Plaxo’s website. However, I wanted to give you an insider’s view of why we joined forces……