Yahoo! offers new beta version of online calendar
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 8, 2008 at 7:30am
Yahoo! Inc. has announced the availability of an all-new Yahoo! Calendar. The new version of the web-based calendar, which will begin rolling out in beta to users today, offers a social calendaring experience.
Yahoo! Calendar is a feature within Yahoo! Mail. Leveraging last year’s acquisition of Zimbra, the new Yahoo! Calendar is built on the Zimbra platform using the iCalendar (iCal) and CalDAV3 standards. The new calendar is interoperable with other online calendar services including those from Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft, AOL and Google, so users can share their calendar data with friends who use other online calendaring services and subscribe to any iCal-based public calendar.
Other new features allow consumers to keep track of activities through color-coding, drag and drop appointments for scheduling, and “zoom-in and -out” from a monthly “wall calendar” view to a single event— all from within a Yahoo! Mail account. In addition, images from the Flickr photo community can be included.
Users can learn more and register to try the Yahoo! Calendar beta here.
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