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October 31, 2006

Scrybe Syncing Calendar Has Launched In Beta

Marshall Kirkpatrick

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Scrybe, the online/offline calendar and organizer with the awesome YouTube demo video we wrote about earlier this month, has launched into beta tonight. We’ve kicked the tires and can report that the parts of the service available now do deliver as advertised (see video again below). Accounts are being opened slowly but hopefully Scrybe won’t leave too many disappointed in the short term. It’s impressive and we hope that the full functionality comes online soon.

For some people this will be very important: it’s not Ajax or Java - it’s Flash. Flash continues its march towards world domination, if it’s not there already.

The basic idea is that the application can be worked with in a browser offline and automatically syncs up whenever you get back online. You can copy and paste list items from Word and Excel documents into Scrybe. There’s a whole lot of smooth zooming in and out and many things can be moved by drag and drop. The UI is almost as smooth as the demo makes it appear, though it would be nice if things shifted or resized to fit the browser window.

A number of features have not yet launched, most notably the bookmarks, the global times display and data export. (Correction: global times have in fact been implemented.) Just a few hours into launch, though, the company has proven that it can bring to market a very fluid, multi-feature product that bridges the online/offline gap very nicely.

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  1. Collin Miller

    October 31st, 2006 at 11:54 pm

    Scrybe looks really great. Awesome feature set.

    It’s not really something I’d try to force on a less advanced user with fewer needs though. A little complex for mom.

  2. Startups.in/India

    November 1st, 2006 at 12:02 am

    Awesome indeed. Excellent demo.

  3. Alaska Miller

    November 1st, 2006 at 5:11 am

    As I first said when this was on TechCrunch, it doesn’t look like AJAX but more like Flex, which Adobe had envisioned when buying Macromedia and will be pushing hard for developers to adapt to. You guys should do a piece on Flex vs. AJAX development because like Ruby on Rails it’s going to be the new fad.

  4. Kosso

    November 1st, 2006 at 8:15 am

    That is incredibly impressive! So - the race is on… G, Y or M?
    I would say ‘Y’.

    This appears to be a perfect candidate for Adobe Apollo. Maybe it is build using this, or some sort of Flex based system. Adobe recently said they have $100m to find startups using Apollo technology.

    This is the sort of app all the Adobe people will be touting when they go to big companies to show what Flash based tech can do.

    I need an app like this.

    Awesome.

  5. Kosso

    November 1st, 2006 at 8:15 am

    edit: $100m to *fund startups…

  6. NeoTechie

    November 1st, 2006 at 8:21 am

    This app. will change the way we organize our life.
    Great demo. I love that we can clip and paste to create events.

  7. Kosso

    November 1st, 2006 at 8:23 am

    Also - if it is using Adobe Apollo, then you can build apps which utilise Flash AND Ajax / HTML AND PDF. All this in an app capable of local file readwrite. On or offline.

    The demo said that this is not a downloaded executable app. So, is this storing everything in the browser cache and cookies?
    I’m trying to think how they’re doing this ;)

    Demo apps like like give me ideas.. ;) thanks for pointing it out.

  8. Neo

    November 1st, 2006 at 9:49 am

    looks like it was ripped from the openlaszlo demo (source is available on their site as well),

    http://labs.openlaszlo.org/lps.....p;lzr=swf7

  9. Brian Solis

    November 1st, 2006 at 10:44 am

    I’m a big fan of the whole offline concept and hoping this type of functionality is absorbed, adopted and/or integrated into other 2.0 productivity suites.

  10. simon

    November 1st, 2006 at 11:44 am

    I was wondering about the security implications of all of storing offline. If there is any access to the file system then that’s not good. A more minor concerrn but still possibly a disaster; would be the storing of user information on public machines. Can it be set to not store anything locally?

  11. chip

    November 1st, 2006 at 1:43 pm

    this is one of the most phenomenal cluster of problem solutions i’ve seen for the computer. i can’t wait! and i’m excited to see how this takes off as the application grows. whether it stays flash based or not, its functionality is a winner. i wish its creators the best!

  12. demetrius pinder

    November 2nd, 2006 at 10:50 am

    Wow, now, this is cutting edge technology! Very impressive, very impressive indeed.

  13. Clipper

    November 2nd, 2006 at 2:54 pm

    Rarely do you see such a tight packaging of valuable features, intelligently integrated to get usability multipliers. Nice work.

  14. Stephen

    November 3rd, 2006 at 11:53 pm

    NEO - you are right it does look VERY similar to the Laszlo Calendar

  15. Jonas

    November 7th, 2006 at 1:31 am

    Have you wondered why you didn’t get invited for the iScrybe beta and why the beta is missing some features? Here’s the reason why!
    http://www.myuninstalledlife.c.....e-features

  16. Claudio

    December 9th, 2006 at 4:11 pm

    Simply amazing. I want to be a beta tester!

  17. xxdesmus

    January 10th, 2007 at 6:34 am

    Not that impressed, I will stick with my Airset.com calendar.

    Airset lets your sync your Outlook calendar with the Airset web calendar, and then it will sync any changes you make on the web cal back into Outlook.

    That is how a web calendar should be done.

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