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. 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 Yahoo ID in order to use the software. It is one of the largest online calendar providers and serves millions of users.
Features
Yahoo Calendar has the following features:
* 100-year calendar
* Various alarm features which allow you to send messages to numerous sources including:
** Mobile devices
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, and sharing your calendar with a particular Yahoo! user.
* Automatically read, integrate, and republish public and personal events syndicated from
, Bookwhen, and other sites.
Events are stored in the cloud. Calendar sharing is also available.
In October 2008 Yahoo launched Yahoo Calendar Beta to the public.
It featured a completely redesigned interface similar to the All-New Yahoo Mail. It also includes support for open standards, support for subscriptions to any iCalendar-based public calendar, Flickr integration, drag & drop functionality and Outlook auto-sync.
It was released as a stable version in November 2010.