Comments on: Vivapop launches boutique web calendar

By: CalendarReview

CalendarReview — Wed, 09 May 2007 06:46:50 +0000

Vivapop launches boutique web calendar…

Marshall Kirkpatrick of TechCrunch wrote this review on Vivapops new service:
Greenwich, CT based Vivapop has launched a web based calendar and events management service that offers a very nice interface, cross platform bidirectional syncing and voice …

By: Interview with Elizabeth Tarbell of Vivapop.com « TechAddress

Interview with Elizabeth Tarbell of Vivapop.com « TechAddress — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:10:29 +0000

[...] On September 6th, 2006 we posted an article entitled, “Are We Online Calendar Obsessed?” that discussed some details about startup companies producing online calendar solutions. One of the companies we mentioned was Vivapop.com (operated by LiliLojik LLC), which provides an online web based calendar and events management service. Vivapop has received positive feedback from several sources including Techcrunch who expressed that Vivapop “offers a very nice interface, cross platform bidirectional syncing and voice recognition for mobile access”. After posting our article we received a significant amount of emails written by end users wanting to learn more about Vivapop. We quickly contacted Vivapop and had the opportunity to ask its founder, Elizabeth Tarbell, a few questions about her company and offered solutions. [...]

By: VentureBeat » Roundup: Slim Devices, ChaCha, Digg, eBay ibank of Web 2.0, more

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:30:01 +0000

[...] Has eBay become the investment bank for Web 2.0? — With Web calendar company Kiko being bought on eBay for $250,000 by another company Tucows, this is a question being posed lately about eBay being posed lately. Om first joked about eBay setting a new floor on investment banking fees about a few days ago. Now Techcrunch is talking about it as a serious way for Web 2.0 companies to be bought. There are more showing up. Indeed, what if companies decide to put a permanent listing prices up at eBay, disclosing the lowest price they’d agree to be sold for — even if they weren’t desperate for a sale yet? They could keep changing the offer price, depending on their own assesment of their promise. In Kiko’s case, of course, the company had run out of steam, and wanted to make whatever it could from a sale of its assets. And Tucows, which wanted a basic calendar company for its own use, made the move. Tucows probably wouldn’t have found out, without eBay. Conclusion: The risks associated with starting a Web company, already reduced because of the very low costs involved, have just gotten even lower. Maybe that’s why you see even more Web calendars still launching (ok, we don’t mean to snark here; the company at least has some differentiating features such as voice-enabled entries, and new ways of synching.) [...]

By: Creative Concepts | PR Marketing Solutions

Creative Concepts | PR Marketing Solutions — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 02:21:17 +0000

[...] I am so happy to say that my client, Vivapop, is popping after a lot time, energy, passion, and enthusiasm!! Vivapop is a web based community calendar that can make anyone’s life easier by sharing calendars, sync to Outlook, phone access and a choice of hundreds of calendars from local not for profits, schools, stores and restaurants (all Greenwich CT based now but national before long) that you can pop right into your calendar. Techcrunch and TechAddress loves it and so do I! Way to go Elizabeth…keep up the good work! [...]

By: Vivapop Launches Web Based Application Services » Dee’s-Planet! Blog

Vivapop Launches Web Based Application Services » Dee’s-Planet! Blog — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:39:15 +0000

[...] Vivapop | Techcrunch [...]

By: vrypan|net|log » links for 2006-09-07

vrypan|net|log » links for 2006-09-07 — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:20:33 +0000

[...] Vivapop launches boutique web calendar Some nice features including blackberry syncing and a voice interface. (tags: calendar voice) [...]

By: greg

greg — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:46:53 +0000

what is interesting for me is they are saying its a caledar for business?

this seems a little odd? still looks like a personal calendar to me?

I cant see how you can control the calendar as an authority (admin)?

Edit and audit members?
Create calendar channels for secure viewing of events based on security permissions?

Looks like you can share all your events or none. Let me know if I missed something though.

This is an area thats missing out there in the web2.0 sphere. All the calendars are aimed for personal use, Can someone please point me to a calendar that is designed for a secure group/business environment?

By: yongfook

yongfook — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:37:50 +0000

sorry, forgot the link:
http://demonstrations.vivapop.com/desire/

By: yongfook

yongfook — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:34:36 +0000

I’m not going to get into the “YAC” debate - I don’t think there is one online calendar app that has truly got it right for me yet, otherwise I wouldn’t still be using iCal. Therefore I welcome newcomers to this genre.

However, seriously, what is up with the “Desire” feature…? I honestly can’t fathom even the most flimsy, tenuous link of how this is applicable to an online calendar app. As an onlooker who is giving the app 5 minutes of my time, it just seems like a bit of a lazy (and ill-fitting) method of monetising the app - even if that might not actually be the case.

Apart from that, the app is sound, and looks prettier than other online calendar offerings, IMO.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 02:37:09 +0000

Scheise! No one needs YAC (Yet Another Calendar) We need another better tools to manage our existing ones! AirSet or TimeBridge got it right.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 01:52:32 +0000

I live in CT and spent an hour with them today. The big deal here is that they are aggregating all local scheduling data. The power is that accuracy of the scheduling data that is being delivered to individuals as well as organizations.

Hear is the ideal example of vivapop at its best. Your a mom, with 4 children and a husband. Your children all go to different schools, so you’ve subscribed to their vivapop schedules. You like to do yoga so you subscribed to your gyms calendar to know when the classes are. Your husband volunteers at the red cross so you are always going to chairity events. She has set it up so the schools, the local gyms, and community organizations feed her their scheduling data. So if there are any changes to any of these schedules they are automatically updated in your calendar.

So if Juniors soccer game is rescheduled for thursday or your gym adds a new yoga class you automatically know cause update in your calendar.

By: lemon obrien

lemon obrien — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 01:45:27 +0000

>>>
and bringing advertising inside the room - that is inside my personal calendar.

By: peter lake

peter lake — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 01:15:52 +0000

One of the reasons there is activity in this space is there are a couple of compelling ideas - subscribing to event feeds that populate my calendar - and bringing advertising inside the room - that is inside my personal calendar.

These efforts are working out the how and why and what aspect has takeup or not. Event feeds should happen.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:46:32 +0000

Finally, a company from CT! Yes!

By: Saeed El-Darahali

Saeed El-Darahali — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:35:49 +0000

Yeh. Yeh. Web calendars are not a hot item these days and I agree that most pieople are not interested in sharing their life schedules with the world. But, this service is working on something bigger than just a web-based calendar, if you look at the interface and some of the unique features this looks like a start of bigger system that will allow for online collaboration tool with access to calendar based management as the core engine of the To-Be system.

Who am I to say… this is only a wild wild guess.

Cheers,

Saeed El-Darahali

By: The Last Podcast » Vivapop: Born to Flop

The Last Podcast » Vivapop: Born to Flop — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:12:52 +0000

[...] Sorry, I couldn’t help but trying to find a rhyming title. TechCrunch today reports on a new Web 2.0 calendaring site: Vivapop. Besides that the market is already oversaturated with calendars (see the sale of Kiko to Tucows), the fact that they will charge $10 a month for their service will be written on their gravestone within the next year. Come on guys, maybe you offer synching, but so does airset.com, and that is a free service and rumor is even the GCalendar will do this soon. [...]

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Vivapop、高級ブティック仕様のウェブカレンダーを公開

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Vivapop、高級ブティック仕様のウェブカレンダーを公開 — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:03:21 +0000

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By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:53:53 +0000

Grumpy, grumpy! It’s a web based calendar with edited shared calendars, synching and IVR.

By: Seth Brundle

Seth Brundle — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:51:16 +0000

Wait! A WEB-BASED CALENDAR???
NO WAY MAN THAT IS AWESOME!!!!

By: TechAddress

TechAddress — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:49:20 +0000

Another excellent post by TechCrunch, but Are We Online Calendar Obsessed? Please read the following and let me know: http://techaddress.wordpress.c.....calendars/

By: Jackson

Jackson — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:08:32 +0000

ha!
they charge.
their done.

By: lemon obrien

lemon obrien — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:04:20 +0000

I personnally don’t want my schedule online. And not much else except my profile and resume.

By: AnotherSceptic

AnotherSceptic — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:57:31 +0000

Hmm, once Microsoft gets their act together with Outlook & Outlook Web Access, we’ll see all these guys up on eBay.

Come on wanna-be calendar-entrepreneurs: most people stare at & struggle with Outlook for 8+ hours a day and they really don’t need yet another scheduling tool in their lives.

By: Marketing Begins At Home

Marketing Begins At Home — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:49:00 +0000

In my own backyard…

I’m normally facing the prospect of jetting off to San Francisco to meet with anyone .. ANYONE… who knows AJAX and Web2.0 from a whole in the ground. But recently this has been changing and, even more exciting, I’m seeing companies sp…

By: Skeptic

Skeptic — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:48:52 +0000

I hear Web-based calendaring companies are going for a couple of hundred grand these days, so it’s just *killer* timing.