Google Calendar now has its own Labs. Long one of the most popular features of Gmail, at least among the early adopter crowd, Labs is the tab in Settings where users can find and turn on experimental new features. Google Calendar Labs is launching with six features:
- Background Image (now you can change it)
- Attach a Document (to an event)
- World Clock (see what time it is for the person you are trying to schedule a meeting with across the world)
- Jump To Date (quick time-based navigation)
- Next Meeting (shows how much time is left before your next one)
- Free or Busy (shows the status if your friends and co-workers)
If you don’t yet see the Labs setting, it should be rolling out gradually across all Google Calendar users.
In conjunction with the rollout of Google Calendar Labs, Google is also opening up new APIs for developers to change the Google Calendar interface. Google Calendar can act as a gadget container complete with hooks into OpenSocial apps and OAuth authentication, or apps can be written as new sidebar features. The new Labs features were written using the gadget API. Maybe someone will write a Google Calendar app like Facebook events which makes it easy to organize and add events to your calendar directly from Gmail, or better yet, Facebook.
What new features would you like to see come out of Google Calendar Labs?
This actually excites me.
woot! I am curious to see how MS intends to deal with the jump that Google has on them regarding web apps. May the best app win!
not working on google apps yet
… perhaps upgrading Contacts next? Calendar and Contacts are the weakest parts of the suite – and, considering their core integration into GMail, improvements and attention are *very* welcome
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And android and google chrome gets better and better and better.
It doesn’t show up yet, but it will be an awesome addition to have in Calendar.
I’d like to see the functionality to change the vertical interval to shrink or expand the amount of space the day takes up. I hate scrolling to see the whole day.
I’m surprised this wasn’t a Labs initial release.
Forever I have been waiting to see a “yearly” view for google’s calendar…it’s the only reason I’m still using Yahoo’s Calendar. Hopefully it’ll be appearing soon. I don’t know why it wasn’t built-in already…am I the only one who wants to see a full year calendar view?!?
I have been searching for that for 2 years now. So important for planning and projects. I’m amazed google hasn’t gotten this yet. Or any of the add-on, plug-in folks.
please, please add this.
Would love a “dependencies” script that allows scheduled items to relate to other scheduled items, and move related items when their parent is moved.
No, Rob, you are not the only one who would like to see a full year calendar view. Thought you would like to know.
“Maybe someone will write a Google Calendar app like Facebook events which makes it easy to organize and add events to your calendar directly from Gmail, or better yet, Facebook. “”
I have been at work on just such an app for 9 months already
I would like the events to scroll when you mouse-over them.
Anyone have any background picture suggestions?
They should bring back the ability to search public calendars but this is cool too.
@James I have been experimenting with some images. think it works best to have something pretty sparse, if you have lots of events, like this (http://bit.ly/39eq6q found on this wallpaper site http://bit.ly/26uUzI). Keen to see if anyone else has found ones which work well
If you want to see these labs in action check out the video tutorials we’ve created about using Calendar Labs.
http://susanbcl...e-calendar-labs