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Dave Winer wants seamless syndication of events between online services - at minimum perhaps an email from a online travel service with an ics file attachment for his booking(s)? Ideally Yahoo! mail would be smart enough to click-to-add to Yahoo! calendar. Beyond that though, why not hCalendar - something that displays nicely in an HTML email and also is structured? Something Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! could settle on? Bill Gates wants microformats. An open-ended prompt to think of the possibilities of microformats, live clipboard, and events - from a really cool Jon Udell screencast. Very cool.

Google now has a vanilla, but smart looking personal calendar application. As I’ve said before, I think eventful is the craigslist of events. I’ve been trying to figure out how they make money. I think their exit strategy is to get bought as frosting for Yahoo or Google. Google: if you really want to beat Yahoo! in the events space, just buy eventful. Disclaimer: I have no financial interest in either company, but I can see the obvious.