Yahoo Calendar is a
Web
Web most often refers to:
* Spider web, a silken structure created by the animal
* World Wide Web or the Web, an Internet-based hypertext system
Web, WEB, or the Web may also refer to:
Computing
* WEB, a literate programming system created by ...
-based
calendar
A calendar is a system of organizing days. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. A calendar date, date is the designation of a single and specific day within such a system. A calendar is ...
service from
Yahoo!
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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
**
Yahoo Messenger
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* The ability to
sync your calendar with those of
Palm
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* Palm plants, of family Arecaceae
** List of Arecaceae genera
**Palm oil
* Several other plants known as "palm"
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devices and
Microsoft Office Outlook,
CalDAV
Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV, or CalDAV, is an Internet standard allowing a client to access and manage calendar data along with the ability to schedule meetings with users on the same or on remote servers. It lets multiple users in differe ...
, iPhone Calendar
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* 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 Groups, Yahoo Group">cellphones">and some SyncML enable
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 Groups, 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, Bookwhen, and other sites.
Events are stored in the cloud. Calendar sharing is also available.
The New Yahoo Calendar
In October 2008 Yahoo launched Yahoo Calendar Beta to the public.
See also
* Google Calendar
* 30 Boxes
* Cozi Central
* Eventful
Eventful is an online calendar and events discovery service owned by Audacy, Inc. The service allows users to search for and track upcoming entertainment events in their area (such as concerts, festivals, and film presentations) involving specifi ...
* Evite
* iCalendar
The Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) is a media type which allows users to store and exchange calendaring and scheduling information such as events, to-dos, journal entries, and free/busy information, ...
References
External links
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A calendar is a system of organizing days. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. A calendar date, date is the designation of a single and specific day within such a system. A calendar is ...
Calendaring software
SyncML
Yahoo! community websites