E31: Google, Shopify Make Calendars Great Again

Episode 31 examines (with a dose of humor) the recent accelerated evolution of the boring old online calendar.

Mike lays out recent changes Google has made to its Calendar to make it more transactional (great for SMBs), more automated, and more location sensitive. As Mike notes, the calendar is not likely to lead off product demos at developer conferences. Still, perhaps some attention was overdue.

Cohost Charlie Laughlin ties this to Shopify’s recently rollout of a tool now embedded in each employee’s calendar that measures the actual cost of online meetings. If widely adopted this could significantly shake up corporate meeting culture.

So technology and both consumer and SMB expectations are catching up to the staid online calendar. This could make calendars more powerful tools yet with less power over our daily lives.

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