Yahoo Calendar

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Yahoo Calendar (own spelling Yahoo! Calendar ; English version: Yahoo! Calendar ) is a web-based calendar service from Yahoo . With 2.4 million users, it is the second largest online calendar, behind the corresponding product from AOL and ahead of that from MSN (data from Nielsen / NetRatings, as of 2006, before the start of the competitor Google Calendar ). He can read calendar feeds and events from the web pages using the calendar programming interface published by Yahoo. These include the Upcoming.org website , which Yahoo bought up for an undisclosed sum in October 2005 , which enables users to create jointly usable event calendars .

Functions

Yahoo Calendar has the following features:

  • 100 year calendar
  • Various alarm functions that allow the user to send messages to various sources, including:
  • Synchronization with Outlook is possible with the software "Intellisync for Yahoo" (address book, calendar, notes and tasks)
  • The exchange of tasks between users. The mechanism allows for various methods of sharing, including publishing the calendar, sharing the calendar with a specific Yahoo Group , and using it with a specific Yahoo user.
  • Automatically read, integrate, and republish public and personal events accessible from Eventful , Upcoming.org , and Evite .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Google unveils calendar service USA Today April 13, 2006

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