Must a valuable application/service be a stand-alone product in order to justify its existence as well as raising funds to further build it into a viable business?!
I agree that it should be part of the calendaring client but there are many clients out there, as well as non-client calendars, that such system needs to bridge over in order to make cross-organizational meeting-coordination possible, simple and affordable. The company that will eventually become the de-facto of scheduling meetings will not necessarily be Google or Microsoft but the company that builds a solution that embraces users with a fun, easy-to-use interface that integrates transparently with their existing calendars and contacts. Leave it for Google or Microsoft to buy them out later on…

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There are a lot of people competing in the space (it’s an old one), but I found timebridge and tungle to be the most innovative. Ipolipo is a competitor, but looks like it only lets you share time slots, not actually build a consensus around a meeting time.

You could just use Outlook/Exchange, and it’ll do the same thing. And the best part is that none of the data gets sent outside of a secure network.

Unlike Timebridge which requires you to have all your personal contact and calendar info in their web site, biz-e does not and it provides the same capabilities. Biz-e has been a great scheduling tool for me and its free!

I don’t know if you signed to the timebridge web site or not but they have an add-in , called “outlook connector, ” that you can download from their site who can connect your account of timebridge to the outlook and vice versa, try it …

E.Oster

*rimshot*

Regards,

JesseJimz

If anyone has an invite to Tungle, could you please send to
alec at dorling dot net

thanks

Tungle is not in Berlin, but Montreal, Canada. The Berlin-based competitor is Timetomeet.info.

Btw, while TimeBridge has heavy funding and nice titles (VP, General Manager..etc), Timetomeet appears to be just a loner, developing useful tools and charging less than $1 a month - what a nouveau concept!

the functionality of the tools like timebridge and timetomeet would be a great marriage with the functionality in iscrybe, however each is a seperate application with its own user base

http://iscrybe.com/main/index.php

Such sites like ipolipo are good for sceduling appointments on a one to one basis i.e. if you want a slot for a hairdressing appointment. WOuld be good for booking the dentist, or doctors !

timebridge et al are for sorting out an appointment across a group and negotiating further times if none fits.

i have now tried timebridge but timetomeet still has my vote

But I agree with others, one of our product (patent pending) has some features that is similar to what these guys do…so we’ll see.

Amazing how people come up with such biz plans!

http://www.diarised.com
http://www.timetomeet.info
http:/www.doodle.ch arrange meetings

but in practice most have some ‘glitches’ in making them usable.

I have not tried timebridge as yet, I will do shortly, but the one that works amongst the crowd is

http://www.timetomeet.info

For activities that are not ‘time-based’ linked to calendars, then Circle Up is the best of the bunch of other products, and still useful in a business environment, even if the target market appears to be another category of user.
http://www.circleip.com

Would be great for someone to do a detailed analysis and trail of these types of products