{"id":1886,"date":"2009-07-15T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2009-07-15T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T08:00:14","slug":"google-calendar-adds-labs-and-opens-up-an-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/15\/google-calendar-adds-labs-and-opens-up-an-api\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Calendar Adds Labs and Opens Up An API"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 19px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1884\" title=\"goog-cal-widget\" src=\"https:\/\/cloud.norai.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/goog-cal-widget-150x83.png\" alt=\"goog-cal-widget\" width=\"150\" height=\"83\" \/>Google Calendar now has its own Labs. Long one of the most popular features of Gmail, at least among the early adopter crowd, Labs is the tab in Settings where users can find and turn on experimental new features. Google Calendar Labs is\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: #009f00;\" href=\"http:\/\/googleappsposts.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/introducing-google-calendar-labs.html\">launching<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"snap_com_shot_link_icon\" style=\"float: none; position: static; max-width: 2000px; max-height: 2000px; min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; left: auto; top: auto; line-height: normal; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http:\/\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v3.89.0.1\/theme\/silver\/palette.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; width: 14px; height: 12px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top; display: inline; visibility: visible; background-position: -1128px 0px; margin: 0px !important; border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v3.89.0.1\/t.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> with six features:<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 19px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0.5em; padding: 0px;\"><strong style=\"color: black;\">Background Imag<\/strong>e (now you can change it)<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0.5em; padding: 0px;\"><strong style=\"color: black;\">Attach a Documen<\/strong>t (to an event)<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0.5em; padding: 0px;\"><strong style=\"color: black;\">World Clock<\/strong> (see what time it is for the person you are trying to schedule a meeting with across the world)<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0.5em; padding: 0px;\"><strong style=\"color: black;\">Jump To Date<\/strong> (quick time-based navigation)<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0.5em; padding: 0px;\"><strong style=\"color: black;\">Next Meetin<\/strong>g (shows how much time is left before your next one)<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0.5em; padding: 0px;\"><strong style=\"color: black;\">Free or Busy<\/strong> (shows the status if your friends and co-workers)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"line-height: 19px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px;\">If you don\u2019t yet see the Labs setting, it should be rolling out gradually across all Google Calendar users.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 19px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px;\">In conjunction with the rollout of Google Calendar Labs, Google is also\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: #009f00;\" href=\"http:\/\/googlecode.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/sidebar-gadgets-coming-soon-to-calendar.html\">opening up new APIs<\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: normal;\"> <\/span><\/span>for developers to change the Google Calendar interface. Google Calendar can act as a gadget container complete with hooks into OpenSocial apps and OAuth authentication, or apps can be written as new sidebar features. The new Labs features were written using the gadget API. Maybe someone will write a Google Calendar app like\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: #009f00;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/07\/08\/facebook-makes-spontaneous-event-planning-easier\/\">Facebook events<\/a> which makes it easy to organize and add events to your calendar directly from Gmail, or better yet, Facebook.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 19px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px;\">What new features would you like to see come out of Google Calendar Labs?<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 19px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1885\" title=\"goog-cal-labs\" src=\"https:\/\/cloud.norai.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/goog-cal-labs.png\" alt=\"goog-cal-labs\" width=\"383\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/goog-cal-labs.png 383w, https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/goog-cal-labs-287x300.png 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Calendar now has its own Labs. Long one of the most popular features of Gmail, at least among the early adopter crowd, Labs is the tab in Settings where users can find and turn on experimental new features. Google Calendar Labs is\u00a0launching with six features: Background Image (now you can change it) Attach a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,6],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-techcrunch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}