RSS And Calendar Integration 29
sytelus writes "Many has played with the idea of packaging calendar information in to the RSS feed. Almost every other website owned by some kind of group or organization has an event calendar so the thought of aggregating those events in to your calendar is pretty appealing. Even more appealing is the thought that people might start tagging their weekend plans and schedules in their RSS feeds. This essay , written after digging through dozens of W3C specs and half a dozen of implementations, reviews the current state of affair."
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TFA is about how we need to reinvent iCal because it's not in XML. Uh, right.
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Google isn't always the answer. (Score:2)
Not everything can be solved with a simple Google search.
The irony with your shoot-from-the-hip post is that out of the top 20 Google results in your search, there is only one useful link (The IETF RFC site).
The rest of the results deal with closed-source software products such as Apple's iCal or Brown Bear's iCal client, an iCal sharing service, or point to complet
What's Wrong with iCal? (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:What's Wrong with iCal? (Score:2)
Because people do 95% of their calendaring activities using MS Outlook. I think I've seen other calendaring clients once or twice.
And yes, we need an alternative, but iCalendar is a STANDARD not a PRODUCT.
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This person didn't do their research that well.
On top of that, he doesn't know what he's talking about. For example, he says that "RDF is simply an XML language", when it's a data model that just happens to have an XML serialisation.
Re:Uhh... (Score:2, Insightful)
The only thing that is missing from ics file is that it does not tell me where I should go back and fetch the updates for new events.
Oh man, that's rich.
"Help, I bough this delicious can of soup from Kroger, located on the corner of 5th and Main near my house, but it doesn't have instructions on where to buy another can! What do I do??"
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RSS-this and RSS-that, all just a hype? (Score:2, Interesting)
And why would that be?
What would that be good for?
And besides that, even if most sites offer RSS feeds today, how many people are really reading them?
Maybe it sounds stupid to mention that on slashdot, but I know a lot of people, who don't even have the slightest clue what RSS is in the first place.
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You are right about how great it is and that innovation starts with one or a few people, but does this mean that RSS will be a success in the long run? Right now I'm not sure if it will become as successful as email or as successful as betamax and laserdisc.
I guess in the end it will all depend on t
Re:GUI-this and GUI-that, all just a hype? (Score:1)
But does Firefox really convert RSS-clueless people into RSS-users? I'm not sure about that at all.
What happens if you click the orange square in the down-right of your Firefox window? It gives you a "Subscribe to 'Slashdot RSS...'" option, which looks to the clueless like just another newsletter-thingy / advertisement they don't want to see...
do you know what the point is ? (Score:2)
because they want to subscribe to events...
people create a ical file and stick it on webDAV that way you can tell if it has changed with a http method
and yes you can use RDF but then half the readers (rss reader / ical from outlook) dont know about that and wont anytime soon (while all os's apple and MS can read webDAV )
really what they need is a good ical client and hopefully thunderbird / sunbird can do this and accept meetings / book resources whatever...
regards
John Jo
Re:do you know what the point is ? (Score:1)
But one thing i have noticed. Is I as a person never go out of my way to schedule things. Yes i know its a bad habit blah blah etc. But its not that i realy Can Not Be Bothered stopping and spending the time to plan thing and so on. Its I dont think that way.
One thing
Abandonware (Score:2)
If you really want to contribute, get involved in the calendar (iCal) working group in the IETF, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread. At least then, when you stop having enough time to contribute, your effort and work won't be lost or just gather dust before becoming another abandoned project.
I think that iCal format is fine for sharing... (Score:3, Informative)
Distributed links and events (Score:2, Interesting)
What I'd like to do is introduce a distributed events system, so that information on an event could be submitted at one site and it could propagate around the network kee
RSS Calendar (Score:1)