The Calendar of the Future | A manifesto from Tungle.me
August 25 2010
Yesterday, Tungle debuted a site called "The Calendar of the Future | A Manifesto". The site features interviews with Tungle's team and industry experts, including Robert Scoble, Google's Don Dodge, LinkedIn's Ellen Levy, Facebook's Michael Brown, me, and others. I am honored to be in the company of smart, visionary people on these videos. They are well worth 15 minutes of your time.
Part of the reason I was so excited to participate in the Manifesto was my long ties to enterprise calendaring and scheduling. Back in 1993, I was one of Lotus's first corporate customers to deploy Lotus Organizer 1.1 as a group scheduling tool along-side my company's cc:Mail environment. It was that pioneering work with Lotus that actually lead to my joining the company in 1994, and the rest is, as they say, history.
Except that the Tungle videos challenge us to think about the future, too. Where is calendaring going? Why hasn't it gone the way of "contextual collaboration"? Heck, why hasn't the metaphor of a calendar changed at all? (Part of my answer -- "the sun goes up, the sun goes down"). What will be different about it in the future? How does calendaring affect the blur between my business and personal life? What does the trend towards transparency and sharing online have to do with calendaring?
These are all good questions, which I and the others in the videos attempt to answer from our own viewpoints. I applaud Marc, Jonathan, and the team at Tungle for putting this stake in the ground and establishing thought leadership. It's also cool to see that the site is generating hundreds of click-throughs just from mentions on Twitter and a few blogs.
As many of you have heard me say for the last several months, using Tungle is a logical next step in calendaring for me and many others. Simply by pointing you to my Tungle page http://tungle.me/edbrill, I can make you aware of times when I'm available to meet -- no admins, no need to connect to my server, no interop at all, except a plug-in in my Notes 8 client and industry standards we already support.
Link: Tungle.me: The Calendar of the Future | A Manifesto >
My other manifesto videos:
History of the calendar >
Future of the calendar >
Ecosystem >
Data and semantic relationships >
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Chris Miller http://www.IdoNotes.com | 8/25/2010 10:30:20 AM
I know many people do not yet understand how Tungle fits into the calendaring architecture. I sat with Marc at Lotusphere when the launch was made in a podcast. It makes it easy to bring together my calendars and expose free time for meetings via the web, without worrying about sercurity or someone trying to email me fifty times looking for a possible meeting. It is all right there on my Tungle page. Here is the podcast:
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Here is my Tungle page as example:
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Everyone should get the free plugin for Notes and mobile devices
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Mark Demicoli http://www.ClickBook.net | 8/25/2010 9:09:19 PM
I see two streams of evolution here in respect to calendaring and online scheduling. On the enterprise side (busienss to business, trust relationship) which is where Tungle sits, and service-based business to business and business to customer (varying trust) appointment scheduling side (eg ClickBook.net - a Domino site by the way).
The interesting thing is iCalendar format is the standard used by most because it is the most supported, but in reality, iCalendar is to CalDav what ASCII is to XML. I have in the past lobbied for CalDav support on Domino (via IdeaJam). Any moves in this direction Ed?
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Rob Novak http://www.lotusrockstar.com | 8/26/2010 4:41:08 PM
Hey! It worked! :)
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David Clover http://www.mcs.open.ac.uk/people/d.a.clover | 8/31/2010 10:49:30 AM
The Tungle Widget doesn't drag and drop or work at all in Windows 7 64 bit - ah well....
You make some good points about data ownership on handheld devices and I don't think the current trend to implement "sandboxes" on iPhone, Droid and maybe Blackberry is going to cut it from either the ownership or the security aspects. Especially for apps like calendar and contacts which hold both business and person data. I think that a lot of companies who have switched from "business owned" to "employee owned" mobile devices would freak at the number of names, addresses, conference numbers with passwords that are carried on the belt or purse. Good thoughts.
I am not sure about he "from the knee" camera perspective. But its good to see you now and then.
And wow, you almost sound like an "IBM Director".