metageek.livejournal.com ([identity profile] metageek.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] jducoeur 2007-07-23 11:47 am (UTC)

I wanted to do that once

Cool. Back at eCal (a calendaring company in 1998-2001), we wanted to expand into that space. The calendar would've given us a UI for the time-based rules; I got active in the IETF's IMPP working group; and we'd already acquired a company called iPing, which did notifications by phone, and which I thought could give us the phone leg of the stool. (Unfortunately, the iPing infrastructure turned out to be a lot less flexible than we'd been led to believe; any new type of notification required new ASP/Visual Basic coding.)

But then the bubble burst, and all the consumer-oriented sites that were our customers started folding, so we had to dump all nonessential work. (We lasted long enough to build an enterprise calendar, but not long enough to sell it.) Nice to see the idea come back.

Post a comment in response:

(will be screened)
(will be screened if not validated)
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
No Subject Icon Selected
More info about formatting