In my last post on the Google Calendar I could not for lack of total familiarity mention all the fetaures and the pluses of this tool. Here is an article that does a good job of it: I didnt notice this but invitation management is built-in now... Taking a page from sites such as InterActiveCorp's Evite, Google also built invitation management into Google Calendar. Users can create event invitations to be sent to anyone with an e-mail account. They can also send event reminders via e-mail or cell phone text message, and keep track of RSVPs from within the program. People can see their schedules by day, week, month and four-day views, highlight any period from a monthly calendar for a customized view and display only certain events at a time on their calendar view. Read more

Did you know this? Wonder why Yahoo and Microsoft werent guarding this frontier more zealously? Thats a heck of a lot of revenue we are talking about here! You may not know it, but every time you search on Google, the company makes 12 cents in revenue. That may not sound like much but it all adds up when you realise that Americans alone did more than 2.7 billion searches via Google in January 2006, according to figures gathered by Nielsen/NetRatings. The analyst firm estimates that 48% of the 5.7 billion searches carried out by Americans in January were done via Google. Read more