{"id":10382,"date":"2006-08-19T02:54:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T23:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/19\/kiko-is-on-sale\/"},"modified":"2006-08-19T02:54:04","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T23:54:04","slug":"kiko-is-on-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/19\/kiko-is-on-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiko is on sale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kiko<\/a> is one of those web-based calendars that were released recently in whole bunches. It features all the modern technologies one could think of – RSS feeds, AJAX interface, Email\/SMS\/IM reminders, and more. I myself haven’t tried it thought. I’ve been playing with AirSet<\/a> and 30boxes<\/a>, and found my peace with Google Calendar<\/a>. But I’ve heard some good words about Kiko too.<\/p>\n

It turned out thought that it didn’t work out as a commercial idea. The development got a bit sidetracked and slowed down, and then it had to compete with Google Calendar, which additionally to being a monster of its own, has an integration with Google’s other service – GMail.<\/p>\n

So, Kiko is up for sale – here’s an Ebay auction<\/a>. Here are the lessons<\/a> that one of the project leaders, Justin Kan, has learned with the project. And here are the thoughts<\/a> of project’s investor, Paul Graham of Y Combinator fame.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Kiko is one of those web-based calendars that were released recently in whole bunches. It features all the modern technologies one could think of – RSS feeds, AJAX interface, Email\/SMS\/IM reminders, and more. I myself haven’t tried it thought. I’ve been playing with AirSet and 30boxes, and found my peace with Google Calendar. But I’ve … Continue reading Kiko is on sale<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12109,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/03\/google-calendar-wishlist\/","url_meta":{"origin":10382,"position":0},"title":"Google Calendar wishlist","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Google Calendar team recently ran a survey, asking users what is it that they like and dislike about the product and how to make it better. \u00a0Of course, I submitted my opinions, but, as always, better thoughts come after the action has been already taken. \u00a0Here is my two items\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10251,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/30\/tasks-in-google-calendar\/","url_meta":{"origin":10382,"position":1},"title":"Tasks in Google Calendar","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 30, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Tasks in Google Calendar is the feature that I miss the most. 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