The new Yahoo Calendar Beta is quite impressive. In term of features, it is almost on par with its older rival, Google Calendar except on the few aspects. I have Yahoo Calendar brief hands-on this evening while working on some old project.
I love comparison, and to start with, I choose Google Calendar. So first of all, I tried my best to find similarities between these 2 calendars on the cloud.
Both calendar has full-fledged calendar function, from creating simple events to recurring events. Event’s reminders can sent via email or SMS pop out (Google Calendar only) and Yahoo Messenger (for Yahoo Only). Yahoo’s SMS events reminder however only applicable for US users, while Google accept almost all carriers all over the world.
Both support event’s drag and drop between hours, days, weeks or months. Yahoo is slightly ahead when it allows adjusting the event period by resizing the event’s box size to be shorter or longer.
Apart from that, both calendars allows sharing the calender with public or people you wanted as well as prints the calendar directly within the application.
To differentiate between calendar type, both allows multiple calendar type, normally on the nature of that calendar such as for personal or business use. The different calendars are differentiate by color, the people who can shared with and etc.
Additionally, Google Calendar have an option to display holiday calendar which Yahoo Calendar lacking with.
The are couple of differences that I notice, and I believe there are more. This are difference that bound to the service provider.
Yahoo has Flickr integrated into Yahoo Calendar. If users happen to be Flickr user, enabling this feature will randomly fill up certain days with the photos from Flickr. Future release includes filling up the day event with the photos that you uploaded that day.
A quite huge different obviously, that Google Calendar can be viewed offline , feature that was introduced on Google Apps recently. With this feature, Google Calender is more appealing for frequent travelers who needs to get in touch with their hectic schedule.
