Hey fellow FuseCal’ers, we’re just a few weeks away from the launch of the highly anticipated FuseCal Beta. We’ve all been working around the clock for the past few months and we’re excited to show you what we’ve got. (Incidentally, one of our developers, Kyle, is teeming with so much excitement that he’ll probably be writing some guest blog entries in the near future).

The FuseCal Beta release is going to have a whole new set of features to help you manage your schedules and improve productivity. One of the big features we’ve been working on is event editing. The Beta release will allow you to edit your events and create new events all through the FuseCal web interface. We also made significant improvements to our calendar aggregation process, allowing you to easily create combined calendars out of your many FuseCal calendars. Throw in an entirely redesigned UI and a host of new sharing features and you’re looking at what may just be the best software release since FuseCal Alpha.

We’ll continue to keep you updated on the specifics of the release as we get closer to the date. If you’re interested in giving us feedback about the release and helping shape the future of FuseCal please email me (Matt.Hatoun@FuseCal.com) and ask to be put on the Beta testers list. We’re working hard to make FuseCal a better product and we appreciate all the feedback we can get.

Hey folks,

For about 3 hours yesterday (Monday, April 28, 2008), a small number of calendars were inaccessible inside FuseCal. In fact, if you logged in during that time, it would have appeared that the calendars had disappeared. The truth is that we accidentally deleted them while performing some fairly routine site maintenance. Since we made a backup of the database right before starting that work, we were able to restore everything very soon after we became aware of the problem.

We’re really sorry about any confusion or inconvenience this may have caused you. We believe everything to be back to normal now. Please let us know if you’re having any remaining issues!

Thanks a lot for using FuseCal. We appreciate your time and attention, and we’re working hard to make it as useful as possible.

cheers,
Matt

Hey folks!

I can’t believe how long it’s been since I posted, but it’s all with good reason… We’ve had our heads down, cranking out the next release of FuseCal, which is set to come out on February 1. This will include some new features, which I’ll tell you more about soon, as well as a bunch of under-the-hood improvements to make everything faster and more stable. Many thanks to everyone who has already taken FuseCal for a spin and given us feedback… I hope you’ll like what we’ve been cooking up!

On a side note, I’m very interested in talking to folks who build web mashups. Bonus points if they use any event data, and/or you live around Providence. (Note: Points not redeemable for cash.) Drop me a line if you’d like to talk shop.

Our friend Jack Templin over at RI Nexus has been kind enough to feature our screencast of FuseCal’s publisher tools.

Incidentally, the RI Nexus calendar is probably the best source of tech sector events in the greater Providence area.  So, after you read about us on their blog, you might just want to pipe their site into FuseCal… how meta is that?

Hey kids! It’s your favorite Uncle Matt, here with an important message… The FuseCal alpha is alive!!!

That’s right: we’ve deployed to our fancy new production servers, and we’re ready to serve your online calendaring needs. So, be a good friend and kick the tires for me.