"The closed beta is ongoing with about 200 participants - people involved are not allowed to invite outsiders to see the calendar and are under strict rules not to share any details with outsiders. Based on feedback I am getting, CL2 is a long way away from launch," reports TechCrunch.
The post says "CL2 is closely, very closely, integrated with Gmail" and adds: "It's also clear from the event creation functionality that Google is is going to attempt to aggregate events like eventful and zvents do now. If they combine their event creation feature with a web crawl and parsing of event data (exactly what zvents does), they will be able to create a very large events database."
Comment: So far there are about a dozen similar Ajax calendars, but to rival the power of Microsoft Outlook requires integration between the calendar, email, address book and other related applications. So Gcal is going to get used by the people who use Gmail, almost regardless of merit. That's going to apply to the calendars in all three of the live portals currently under construction by GYM, or Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
