Simon G's Blog

I tend to always use my calendar at work (MS Outlook with Exchange at the backend) as my core calendar and then synchronise this with my mobile phone.  This works well for me but I thought I should check out the Online calendar scene. My requirements for an Online Calendar are pretty simple, but the caliber of the different tools was quite significant: Has a nice look and feel and is fast enough Works! Can handle recurring appointments Can synchronise with iPhone, Android and ideally Symbian OS Can synchronise / provide data to other calendar based mashups The company is highly likely to still be around in five years Reasonable availability, stability, data integrity and security Online Calendars  Google Calendar None of the other Online calendar came close to matching the slick usability of Google Calendar .  The look & feel of this calendar is excellent.  Nice stand out features also include having both public and private URLS (supporting XML, iCa...

I often evaluate products to determine their fit to the requirements I am trying to address.  I do find however that I am often disappointed at how hard it is to find the information I am looking for. I tend to have lists of functional, technical, operational, commercial and financial criteria I am trying to assess against and the first step is to identity a list of Solution Option candidates upon which I will then rapidly do an initial assessment and triage. My ideal is to be able to easily find one or two pages that contain the majority of the information I am looking for.  Some sites however make it a very painful process.  Having to watch a video or look through piles of documentation is not desirable.  http://drupal.org/features is a great example of what is good; this is a simple page that contains lots of useful information, and links to further detail.  I was using a major Software vendors site recently and knew they had a product covering what I ...