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- Khlept0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Some damn smart people.
Digg! - Trenton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Google thought of it =)
They are getting better and better, did you know they hosted mx servers? =O - jsmucker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Not Bad, I want one that I can upload my weather data. That would be nice.
- Harmless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Good idea. Lets put our heads together and think of some more "outside-the-box" usages...
- theotheragentm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Seems a little too easy to monitor, huh?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6how about a labor schedular. i'd love to use this over the spread sheet i now use at my three cafes.
- tocksin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Your information may be more secure on Google than on your personal computer. It would take a specific court order to get your personal info from Google, but it would be far easier to get the info from your personal computer. A general search warrant may not specifically target your calendar information, but if they came across it looking for something else, then it could be held against you. And if it's a laptop, you may simply lose it along with your info, or it may get stolen.
- geriborg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Who is monitoring Google's potential use of this detailed information? After all, here's what the user agreement requires:
You do, however, agree that Google may MONITOR, edit or DISCLOSE your PERSONAL information, including the content of your calendars and events, if required to do so in order to comply with any valid legal process or GOVERNMENTAL request (such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order), OR AS OTHERWISE provided in these Terms of Use, the Google Privacy Policy, and the Google Calendar Privacy Notice. Personal information collected by Google may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Google Inc. or its agents maintain facilities. By using Google Calendar, you consent to any such transfer of information OUTSIDE OF YOUR COUNTRY. - Sebastian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://www.truepathtechnologies.com.nyud.net:8090/gcal.html
- tocksin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5So is this one of those reason why Google Calendar is better than iCal? I don't use iCal, but many people have complained that Google's is an online rip-off. I don't do network monitoring type work, but it seems that sharing is the key feature of Google's. I just like it because I can access my calendar from anywhere.
- PommieZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Does anyone else see the inherent problem with this scheme?
Using an external (to your company) site to post network status reports?
So if your network is hopelessly screwed, and you've told people to "check the Google Calendar for information", just HOW THE HELL do you expect them to do this? And if you're having network difficulties of an even tolerable amount, who is going to deal with all the "I can only get the network information SOME of the time" responses?
An interesting idea... for a company's intranet, perhaps. Pretty silly to rely on Google for. No digg. - tnwake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I guess I'm missing something.. all this appears to be doing is showing me how to create different calendars, invite people to those calendars, view/not view certain calendars, etc. I figured that out on my own. I see it supposedly monitoring network resources in the screen shots, but no explanation of how that's done.
Not to mention there are no download or purchase options for this "product". And if it has to be purchased that goes against the reason Google allows open development on their products. - ckkoba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ahh so this is something we need to buy?
I don't see any instructions! - jhuebel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3After looking it over, it looks like all it's doing is putting "all day events" for each of the monitoring metrics. I still don't see what's so great about this.
- zerovertex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It would be great to see this intergated into an open source network monitoring system like nagios.
- Kiwwa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The point of it for this company doesn't seem to be ENTIRELY to put out a product that is 100% the best network monitoring system they could create, it seems (from the whole "GOOGLE, LOOK AT US, YEAH, US, OVER HERE, EMAIL US GOOGLE!" thing) that they are trying to get the attention of Google by utilizing the google calender in a way that nobody had ever thought of before.
They just want to get bought out and be rich, good luck to them. ^_^ - Tu13erhead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Check this out:
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon.php?id=2372 - zmigliozzi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4oh how i love google and its divinity
- koick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Agreed, but it's still a clever useage.
- ezascanbe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2the usages for a robust calendar leveraging these types of calendars is huge... subscribing to calendars for sporting teams, events, classes not to mention appointments for doctors, flights, hotel bookings etc!
I was really happy to see the release of the gcal. I'm excited to see the API being used for this particular project. It also makes me think some clever person (or google) will develop some kind of sync for ical to gcal to get around my woes with updating mobile phone etc. (Yes I'm aware of the workaround by using icalx etc and subscribing) but you just can't beat being able to create entries offline! - koick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Personally, I'd think people's calendar events are potentially much less sensitive than email content, or even words you type into a search box...
- m.b., on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Agreed... instructions would be good.
- MrEcho, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Damm its already 503
- listrophy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good god, man. Tremendous idea.
Maybe something like: http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/theweatherman@gmail.com/public/90210
I read that gCal doesn't update events on non-google ical files without manual refreshes. If that gets fixed (or the problem doesn't exist... I just never tried to verify it), something like this would be even cooler:
http://www.theweatherman.com/90210/hourly/every4hours
http://www.theweatherman.com/90210/daily/includenights - iheartcrack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1OT: Can someone tell me why the damn Google calendar always opens in a pop-up window from Gmail!!?!?!?!!!
- Qopax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1if you want, you can always set firefox to force new links to open in new tabs, just look in the options for tabs
that is, if I understand your question correctly - sw0rdfish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What's the big idea? They're using a Shared Calendar to post events...
Something Exchange, and many other calendars have been doing for years... So again...what's the big idea? - amanzi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's a good idea - but no instructions on how to do it.
- daball99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I could have really used this back in the days when I had to look after several servers in three cities
- ignition, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It has google in the title...digg++
- xasx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Can't you do this with any calendar anyway? I don't know if I mis-read what they did, but my company has being using Outlook and another Perl Calendar for oncall, out of office, and server outages for awhile.
- bogoslav, on 04/15/2008, -0/+0Not a good idea. There are a lot of monitoring tools that are developed for monitoring, why not use them?
- basjanssen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Mirror anyone? :( I'm really curious... :)
- devoinregress, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1haha, You sound like my Geosystems teacher
- Mostyn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Feeding the calander detail is provided in the Dev site for the gCal API
http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/overview.html
Code examples for ATOM scan as pretty simple - anyone used ATOM or RSS in this fashion?
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Oops - this is a bit tooo geeky and specific - I am management and don't actually know much about details (well anything really) - feel free to ignore me - refer http://www.dilbert.com/ for further details. - jhuebel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Not crazy about the idea, to be honest. There are far better ways to do monitoring than shoehorning stats into a calendar.
- mamboman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just let your server add the entries a minute in the future and you will get free SMS notifications when a server crashes...
- groovepapa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1What a cool idea. Great digg.
- blonkm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, they are using the calendars exactly what they are supposed to be used for!!!!
That is some extreme out of the box thinking. duh. - BitpopBoogie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1uhh... hasn't anyone heard of 30boxes.com? You can share calenders with your friends....
- manonmars, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Wonderful idea! DIGG!
- smspence, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2I did.
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