My friend Aishwarya Mahajan is a busy guy. As the head of Livelihood Operations of Aide et Action South Asia, he’s always running to meetings with print-outs of his daily calendar to keep him punctual. When I learned about his organization habits, I had to stop his madness. So one day I pulled him aside and introduced him to the All New Yahoo! Calendar and all of its new features for helping busy people manage their schedules.
If you can relate to Aishwarya, then you’ll love the All New Yahoo! Calendar, which is designed to make it easier for you to organize your events and appointments. We’ve begun to migrate users over to the All New Yahoo! Calendar, and by next spring all Calendar users will get a chance to use it. Here are some new features that we baked into the All New Yahoo! Calendar.
Get your stuff done faster— You can view an entire month or focus on a specific date and time. You can also assign colors for different calendars and to-do lists, and drag-and-drop events between dates or years.
Sharing made easy—All New Yahoo! Calendar gives you more control to share your calendars and events. You can control how you share events and reminders by selecting ‘View Only’ or ‘Add/Edit’ modes. You can also make your event publicly accessible to anyone who knows your Yahoo! ID, send contacts a Web URL to access your calendar, or send invites to clients that support the .ics protocol.
Subscribe to other calendars—You can subscribe to other Web calendars that support the iCal address protocol.
Take your Calendar with you—All New Yahoo! Calendar supports Calendar Sync with mobile and other smart devices using the CalDAV protocol. That means you can sync Yahoo! Calendar with the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, iCalendar, Mozilla Lightning/Sunbird, Palm, Alcatel, and others.
Custom themes— Similar to Classic, Yahoo! Calendar 2.0 also hosts country holiday calendars which you can subscribe to easily.
I’m proud to report that Aishwarya has moved his scheduling activities onto Yahoo! Calendar and it has made him much more organized. We hope you’ll see the same benefits too. Don’t forget to tell us what you think by leaving us a comment.
Come on, I just submitted a comment, and evidently it was wiped out. I can’t even get into the new calendar. Bring back the old calendar! From the comments I see from others, the new one is just a DUD!
Hate the new calendar. It has all my appointments at the wrong times. How can that be better than the old calendar?
I’m sorry but I have to agree with these people, your calendar is very very time consuming. Too slow. And must of all, I find it boring. I gave it a try, but the features you got on the calendar, the’re no fun. Please give me something I can work with!!!
Will it be released together with an App for Android/iphone etc? Because thats the reason I stopped using Yahoo Calendar. It’s the best online calendar but the mobile site lacks every feature. Really need an app!
Come on Yahoo! wake up, we are at the end of 2010!
it’s not so good at all and too slow. I wished sms notification of reminder in calender like gmail. I am from Bangladesh. Gmail is giving this opportunity to us but yahoo is not giving it. I will suggest you to make a user-friendly calender(for example: ovi calender) with simple interface and sms notification. And I think calender should be include in yahoo mail not in a seperate website.
We don’t need a NEW Yahoo calendar. the old one worked fine. You people must not work in an office where it is vital that I submit lots of appts in a timely fashion. New calendar is useless…too time consuming switching back and forth from my emails to the calendar. bad idea…I tried to advance to the next month…the “loading” icon never stopped spinning so I exited…unable to add my Dec. appts….need I say more…give us back our old calendar NOW. We protest. the new calendar…pardon my french…SUCKS!
How do we get the new yahoo calendar? I’ve been waiting for this improvment for a LONG time. I love Google’s Calendar ap, but hate their email. I would love to have everything all on YAHOO with my email.