can’t google calendar and evite work together? it seems that non-internet geeks just love the evite and all us geeky internet types love our google calendar. so of course, all my non-internet geek friends send invites from evite and then i have to go manually copy them into my calendar. it’s just oh so much work in these web2.0 days.
wouldn’t an “add this to google calendar” link be just grand. i know its way to much to exect from upcoming.org, since it’s owned by yahoo! but it would sure make sense for evite.
and apparently this blogger thinks so too and even created a greasemonkey script, which god help me i am going to try out.
rant over.
quick update – the script won’t work if there is not end time for an evite event which apparently none of my friends bother with, so i have no idea whether it works. anybody who knows javascript out there want to look at it and fix it?
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January 11th, 2007 at 1:02 am
Hi there, check out Planypus – the new place where friends make plans. It feeds out into rss, google calendar, or a variety of homepage integrations (yahoo homepage, etc).
Planypus is a bit more than evite, it’s good for quick and casual planning with dynamic discussions voting, and a wiki-like space that helps you plan larger things like ski trips or something. We’re focused on getting everyone in the group contribute to making plans so it’s not quite so pain in the ass for one organizer.
Check it out and let me know what you think, thanks!
January 11th, 2007 at 2:07 am
It’s been a while since I monkeyed with the greasemonkey script (just haven’t had time), but I’ll probably poke around and see if I can make it work again.
I’m a complete hack, but it did work for a little while. Thanks for checking it out.
January 11th, 2007 at 2:46 am
Ok, you motivated me to fix it.
I threw in another hack that, if there’s no end time, just sets the end time the same as the start time. You can adjust it from there.
It doesn’t respect daylight savings time, so it’ll be an hour off when the clocks switch again in the spring, but that’s an easy tweak.
Give it a shot and let me know what you think. If you like it (or if it works, at least), give me another shoutout!
http://blog.ryantoohil.com/2007/01/evite-to-google-calendar-greasemonkey-script-v11.php