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Over 400 people test drove the latest release of dotCal, now on the iPhone, iPad, Android platforms

Portland, Ore. (August 1, 2011)

Hey folks, dotCal has just added 3 new platforms to the dotCal family of applications. The new iPhone, iPad, and Android apps were premiered at the recent July SF beta invitational meeting, July 12th 2011. It was held at the 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco, California.

I'm been in the business for a number of years, and we'll still fighting dumb cross platform compatibilities with the big boys, CMSs (Content Management Systems) and local silos. 

Having to build custom hacks and excessive filtering to communicate with these islands is just wrong.

Many have wondered why the grow of calendar-to-calendar communications has been so slow in the past 10 years.

Well that is easy to answer, look at who has been in control.... no one that is truly in the calendar business. 

All the major electronic calendar providers have viewed their calendaring products as add-ons to something else like email.

But that is about to change, mark my words/blogs. (:-)

Go to CalConnect XXI -- May 23-27 2011

CalConnect Interoperability Test Events - 23-25 May
CalConnect Roundtable XXI - 25-27 May

Schools looking to enhance communications with their students parents and the parents of those students are using a new Internet-based Calendar Communications Technology as a solution to event publishing, broadcasting, and information sharing.  dotCal.com (dotCal) is working with many innovative Schools and Universities to enhance social networking strategies for local meetings, class openings, special events, and other important time-sensitive information.  Schools currently using dotCal include:

Dan Mendell grew his last business — 1-800-Support, into a 750 person Oregon company.

dotCal, his latest venture, makes it easier for companies to manage online calendars, and it’s used by more than 70 companies so far.

Dan Mendell came back from an Internet conference in Paris confident about launching his new startup Internet calendar company, dotCal. Investors had shown interest.

The timing seemed right. “I wasn’t going to let anything stop me,” Mendell said.

Well I'm here in Pittsburg after flying all night experiencing 2 equipment failures.

Here with the greatest technical minds and engineers in the industry. Discussing many concepts including the effects of Active Sync and CalDav servers. Quite a bit of good testing, but windows continues to be a challenge to keep up with.

Talk to you more about it later.

Danton

Very interesting posting by Liz, I thought I I would share it with you all.

Thanks Liz...

Dan

As of April 1st the dotCal platform is now powered by a DaviCal Server platform written by our dotCal CTO Andrew McMillan.

Everything is quicker and slicker because our engine is lightning fast.  Expect to see a lot of changes in the coming months based upon this key functional platform.

DAViCal CalDAV Server is written by Andrew McMillan to create a straightforward CalDAV server for shared groupware calendaring. The project is written in PHP and uses a PostgreSQL database for backend storage.

We're excited to report that the wine industry is the latest business segment to embrace dotCal,our Internet-based calendar communications service, which offers a solution to event publishing and invitation needs. In recent months a number of wineries have begun using the platform, looking to enhance communications with their customers and entice these wine lovers to attend their various tasting events