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.
I wanted to do that once
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.