I just gave RSSCalendar a quick spin. RSSCalendar is, strangely enough, an online calendar service. You can enter events, appointments and whatnot on your Calendar and you can log back into RSSCalendar to view them at a later date. The twist is that RSSCalendar also publishes your Calendar as three different RSS feeds: daily, weekly and monthly ones. You – or someone else – can subscribe to these feeds and be notified of what's happening. If you're the someone else, you can load the event into your calendar program, such as Outlook, or even into your own RSSCalendar account. Alternatively, you can also just mail the URL of the calendar event to someone else so they add it to their Calendar. Neat.

There's a few UI glitches that I've encountered so far, which I shall mention here in the hopes that the RSSCalendar folks will fix them:

• The "Add Event" page requires a Description. I don't always want to do this.
• It should be possible to have multi-day all day events. For example, "Mom visits; Sept 3 – 9".
• The "Start Date" should display the day of week.
• The popup Calendar selector is ugly as hell. How about a single button from with a graphic displaying a calendar? That'd be much slicker.
• If you press any of the "Recurrence" buttons, it's not possible to turn them off.
• It should be possible to hide my e-mail address in the public feeds. I entered one of my "real" private e-mail addresses into my account information (as opposed to one of my "expect spam" public e-mail address).
• After you log in for the first time it says "Welcome Back". This is a very minor nit I know.
• BlogMatrix Jäger is not mentioned as one of the readers :-)

There's one feature I'd like to see added. In fact, I think this is kinda critical: there should be a fourth "notification" feed that will republish events several times before they happen, say at 3 hours, 1 hour, 30, 15 and 5 minutes before the actual event. These entries should have all the same links but different GUIDs so they will be seen a distinct events by aggregators. Private events should be published in this feed. This will act as a notification channel for me when I'm using the calendar from Jäger.

Minor editing changes made 2004.07.20