Tungle Calendar Sync
In a perfect world everyone would use the same e-calendaring system, but of course that is not (and never will be) the case. What would be the benefit of everyone having access to each other's calendar? So that when you want to schedule a meeting with one or more people you wouldn't have to endure dozens of emails trying to get everyone to agree on a date and time to meet. Enter Tungle, a web service that crosses over the proprietary calendaring boundaries so that you can easily schedule meeting with people using their own calendar system. Currently Tungle supports Outlook (with or without an Exchange server), Google Calendar, iCAL and Entourage on MAC, and soon Lotus Notes.
The question becomes - how simple is it? Very simple. Not only that, you can get a vanity URL by signing up at their Tungle.me site. When you sync your calendar with Tungle, it publishes your busy and available times, not the details of your calendar entries. This allows others to see your available times. They even have an iPhone app that gives you full functionality for using the scheduling application. Sweet.
The added bonus is that even if you don't use one of the supported calendaring systems, you can still use your Tungle calendar to coordinate and schedule meetings with others. Oh, and yeah, it auto-updates across time zones (duh, of course they thought of that).
So, if you have need of sharing calendars and making meeting appointments with people outside (or even inside) your company who don't share a common calendaring system, you might want to give Tungle a try.
