Yahoo Calendar vs Google Calendar ? what to choose

No Matter what profession we are Calendar is the part of our daily life....... USing Calendar has transformed from a wall mount calendar sheet where we mark our appointments and appointment books to the electronic gadgets ranging from small mobiles to hand held PDA and Computers to WEB Pages on internet..... there are many choices for us to choose from the available services to choose the best product which suits us..... now how to choose btw the top players Google, Yahoo and some small entery level companies such as Remoba

Features of yahoo calendar

One of the largest online calendar providers, serving millions of users, Yahoo! Calendar is a Web-based calendar service from Yahoo!. It can read calendar feeds and events syndicated from sites that make use of the published Yahoo! calendar programming interfaces. While users are not required to have a Yahoo! Mail account, they are required to have a free Yahoo! ID in order to use the software.

Yahoo! Calendar has the following features:

• 100 year calendar
• various alarm features which allow you to send messages to numerous sources including:
  • email
  • mobile devices
  • Yahoo! Messenger
• the ability to sync your calendar with those of Palm devices and Microsoft Office Outlook and some SyncML enabled cellphones
• sharing of schedules between users. The mechanism allows several different methods of sharing including publicly sharing your calendar, sharing your calendar with a specific Yahoo! Group, and sharing your calendar with a particular Yahoo! user.
• automatically read, integrate, and republish public and personal events syndicated from Eventful, Upcoming, Evite, and other sites.

Events are stored online, so in the case of a user's hard drive failure, no data is lost. Calendar sharing is also available.

Features of Google Calendar

Google Calendar, previously code-named "CL2", is a contact- and time-management web application offered by Google. It allows users to synchronize their Gmail contacts with a web-based calendar. It became available on April 13, 2006 and is currently in beta stages. While users are not required to have a Gmail account, they are required to have a free Google Account in order to use the software.

The interface of Google Calendar is similar to desktop calendar applications such as Microsoft Outlook or iCal on Mac OS X.

The Ajax-driven interface enables users to view, add and even drag-and-drop events from one date to another without reloading the page. It sports a variety of view modes, such as the weekly, monthly and agenda views

Users can "quick add" calendar events by typing standard English phrases, such as "Dinner with Michael 7pm tomorrow". Users can also set the number of days to show in their custom view mode. All events in a Google Calendar can be commented on by its users.

Events are stored online, meaning that the calendar can be viewed from many locations. In the case of a user experiencing a hard drive failure, it also means that no data is lost.

The application can import Microsoft Outlook calendar files (.csv) and iCalendar files (.ics, the de facto open calendaring file format), although at this stage only when the fields are all in U.S. format.

Multiple calendars can be added and shared, allowing various levels of permissions for the users. This enables collaboration and sharing of schedules between groups or families. There are also general calendars available for importing into one's account which contain national holidays of various countries.
Google Calendar is integrated with various other Google services:

* Gmail, Google's webmail service. When an e-mail that contains trigger words (such as "meeting", or dates and times) arrives, an "add to calendar" button is automatically displayed alongside it. This feature is not yet available to all Gmail users.
* iGoogle, the user-designed Google homepage, where you can choose and organize content in the form of "gadgets". The calendar is shown as a module on your homepage. This "gadget" offers options to edit how the time is displayed, which day the week starts on, and a link to "Add Event".[1]
* Google Desktop, Google's desktop search software for Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2000 SP3+ PC or Mac OS X. The mini-calendar gadget allows you view your agenda without having to open your browser. You can place it on your desktop or leave it docked in the sidebar.

Even thoug there are other players who are offering good services... remoba which is a entry level company provides the webinterface same as yahoo and integrates its web calendar to mobile device with their mobile productivity software such as iDatebook..... it also provides a solution to integrate mobile, computer and web events and contacts to be in synched always... but iDatebook is only available in United States and India it is also available with verizon a leading carrier in USA and Reliance and Tata Indicom in India

Though there are many solutions choosing the appropriate calendar solution to ones need is very important