Movable Type & iCal
September 14, 2002
This week, Apple released their free calendar app, iCal. I'm not going to review it, but I would like to discuss my favorite feature: publishing. Essentially, you can make a calendar available for subscription via the web and people can download your calendar, be it a concert schedule or your daily routine, into their calendar. Endless possibilites.
I was hoping someone would be able to incorporate this into Movable Type. It happened much more quickly than I thought. Morbus Iff created a template to export your calendar to iCal and Ben, one of the cofounders of MT, created an AppleScript to export your calendar to the web. I will have to implement this very soon.
What I'd really like to see is a website that allows people to post their calendars for all to see. It would be like a yahoo directory of iCal calendars, so that people could find tons of things to subscribe to. I would love to do this if someone wanted to help. Any takers?
Advertisement
Comments (1 comments so far)
Trackback
Trackback Link:
Post a comment
Sorry, Comments are closed. You may still send a trackback link though.
home
about
photo
mini reviews
archives
netflix queue
lists (soon)
calendar (soon)
rss feed
This entry is titled "Movable Type & iCal" and was posted on September 14, 2002 at 8:38 pm. It was posted in the category "Technology\Web."
There have been 1 Comment and .
Last 5 Entries Commented On:
Eric Asimov and the NYT Says Sprecher Makes the Best Root Beer (1)
Guitar Hero Ad: You Just Blew My Mind (1)
Why Those Chicken Wings Were Good (1)
Keith Olbermann Evicerates Bush in a Special Comment Piece (1)
What's the Problem? (1)
Last 5 Months:
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
Categories:
Art
Culture\Politics\Law
Design
Far East 2005
Food
Music\TV\Film\Media
My Life
New York
Quick Post
Site News
Sports
Technology\Web
Tidbits
Top Ten
Video Games
The content on this website is licensed under a Creative Commons license. So, cc 1999-2008. The code is copyright me. Enjoy.

Comment #1:
being able to "subscribe" to other people's calendars could be conducive to stalking. SWIMFAN85
Posted by steve sleeve on September 15, 2002 at 2:05PM