Yahoo! Calendar

Yahoo Calendar is a Web-based calendar service from Yahoo!. It can read calendar feeds and events syndicated from sites that make use of the published Yahoo calendar programming interfaces. While users are not required to have a Yahoo Mail account, they are required to have a Yahoo ID in order to use the software. It is one of the largest online calendar providers and serves millions of users.

Yahoo Calendar
Developer(s)Yahoo!
Initial releaseAugust 17, 1998 (1998-08-17)[1]
Operating systemAny (web-based application)
TypeElectronic calendar
Websitecalendar.yahoo.com

Features

Yahoo Calendar has the following features:

  • 100-year calendar
  • Various alarm features which allow you to send messages to numerous sources including:
    • Mobile devices [2]
    • Yahoo Messenger
  • The ability to sync your calendar with those of Palm devices and Microsoft Office Outlook, CalDAV, iPhone Calendar[3]and some SyncML enabled [http://go.yahoo.com/next/devices_syncml cellphones
  • Sharing of schedules between users. The mechanism allows several different methods of sharing including publicly sharing your calendar, sharing your calendar with a specific Yahoo Group, and sharing your calendar with a particular Yahoo! user.
  • Automatically read, integrate, and republish public and personal events syndicated from Eventful, Upcoming, Evite, Bookwhen, and other sites.

Events are stored in the cloud. Calendar sharing is also available.

The New Yahoo Calendar

In October 2008 Yahoo launched Yahoo Calendar Beta to the public.[4]

It featured a completely redesigned interface similar to the All-New Yahoo Mail. It also includes support for open standards, support for subscriptions to any iCalendar-based public calendar, Flickr integration, drag & drop functionality and Outlook auto-sync.[5]

It was released as a stable version in November 2010.[6]

See also

References
  1. "Yahoo! Inc. - Company Timeline". Wayback Machine. 2008-07-13. Archived from the original on 2008-07-13. Retrieved 2016-07-19.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. "Yahoo Calendar Guide".
  3. "How to Sync Yahoo Calendar With iPhone Calendar".
  4. "New Features For The All New Calendar Beta".
  5. "It's The Calendar You've Been Waiting For".
  6. "Here Comes The All New Yahoo Calendar".
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