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SCHED*: Simple Social Scheduling

Imran Ali on May 29, 2009

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It’s been said that the apps that break out at Austin’s South by Southwest festival are those that help festival-goers navigate and orient themselves within the sprawl of parties, panel sessions and gigs.

The 2007 edition of SXSW was Twitter’s big moment, the tipping point for the now iconic service. The following year, many thought that SCHED*, a web-based event calendar and agenda builder, would be the breakout service of 2008 — the “new Twitter.”

Though such expectations were inflated by the media, SCHED* provided useful personalized schedules that have endured through two editions of the festival. The latest edition of the app now includes mobile support, iPhone compatibility, and the ability to integrate with iCal and Google Calendar. Read More about SCHED*: Simple Social Scheduling

Need Help Planning Your Macworld Itinerary?

Edit Staff on January 5, 2009

With literally hundreds of events, presentations, keynotes and parties, it can be pretty hard to keep up with everything you’d like to see and do at Macworld this year. But fear not, this year, TheAppleBlog has teamed up with SCHED to bring you the Macworld SCHED. Use it to plan out your entire Macworld schedule and to see which are the most popular events and parties. Read More about Need Help Planning Your Macworld Itinerary?

Reqall 2.0: Remember Better by Remembering Less

Alistair Croll on March 6, 2008

Author and productivity expert David Allen, the man behind the Getting Things Done movement, says knowledge workers are stressed because they try keep track of all they have to do, even when it’s not what they’re focusing on. The key to productivity, he says, is “making sure that everything you need is collected somewhere other than in your head.”

Researchers have been trying to collect everything you need and put it somewhere other than in your head — first in bulky backpacks and now documenting them online — for years. The collection and storage of one’s life was taken to an entirely new level with “lifelogging.”

MIT media lab alumnus Sunil Vemuri logged his own life for two years as part of a PhD thesis. His company, Reqall, has spent the year since its DEMO07 launch learning what its users want. Today it unveiled an updated offering to the service that handles delegation, keyword-based tagging, intermittent reminders to strengthen recall, and an iPhone interface designed in conjunction with folks close to Apple. With the release, the firm hopes to tackle two of the biggest challenges in memory enhancement.