I know I’m a little late to the party on this one, but Google released Google Calendar last week to acclaim and priase from both google lovers and web 2.0 aficianados around the globe. Along with the entire calendar being Ajax based and easy to manage and edit straight from the webpage, you can also add public calendars to your calendar, so for example, a quick search of the Google Blogoscoped blog [ http://blog.outer-court.com/ ] gives us this handy set of interesting google calendars that you can import into your own Google calendar to keep track of everything from DVD releases to holidays!

[ Google Blogoscoped :: Interesting Google Calendars ]

But that’s not all! This particular functionality just shows you how easy it is to create a set of dates and items and import them into your Google Calendar-you can also set your Google Calendar to send you SMS text messages to your cellphone when you have a meeting coming up or a changed scheduled event, or you can give other people permissions to your Google Calendar so they can see where you are, or even make changes and enter appointments for you! You can even sync other applications like Apple’s iCal to your Google Calendar!

So far, Google looks like it really does have a winner on its hands with Google Calendar, which includes an array of actually very useful and easy-to-use featues and functionalities while still keeping the UI simple and straight-forward in that typical Google way. Looking good, guys! Head on over and sign up for your own Google Calendar now!

[ Google Calendar ]