Exclusive: Google Gears Now on Calendar

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 by Andy Beal

Exclusive: Google Gears Now on Calendar

I just saw an interesting pop-up message while opening-up Google Calendar. It said the application wanted to use Google Gears, did I approve? Google Gears is Google’s offline reading application. I checked my settings, and I have already given Google Reader permission–and I didn’t even have Google Reader open–so this is definitely for Google Calendar.

Here’s a screenshot showing the message and the address for my Google Calendar…

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I’m still investigating whether Calendar is now working with Google Gears, or if this was just a pre-emptive request, but it looks like we could be getting an offline version of Google Calendar–and maybe Gmail–very soon!

UPDATE: A Google spokesperson tells us: “”We’re working on building offline capabilities into Google applications using Google Gears, but we have no specific details or launch dates to share yet.” We’ll take that as a confirmation that a launch is imminent.

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14 comments on “Exclusive: Google Gears Now on Calendar”

Jordan McCollum Says:

October 23rd, 2007 at 11:43 am

Oh, I’m hoping for Gmail! I was hoping to use this yesterday (what kind of blogging conference doesn’t have WLAN?!), but I made the mistake of closing the browser window. Once I was offline, couldn’t reopen Reader. So now I’m several hundred stories behind. (But I’m catching up!)
Joey Says:

October 23rd, 2007 at 1:09 pm

Yes, I got the same thing this morning….I had gmail and calendar open, but not reader, so it must be for one of them.

So far, I don’t see the ‘green arrow’ icon in either application, so it’s not fully functional, yet.
Andy Beal Says:

October 23rd, 2007 at 1:11 pm

@Joey – not seeing the green arrow either. I expect we’ll see an announcement soon. I emailed Google, but haven’t heard back yet.
wayne Says:

October 23rd, 2007 at 1:28 pm

I’m still not seeing the gears app yet. Gears for calendar and gmail, I may switch back to Firefox from safari, but they are working on an offline Safari feature too.
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October 24th, 2007 at 6:06 pm

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Paul Rasmussen Says:

January 29th, 2009 at 8:57 pm

It is a great improvement giving us offline access for the calendar, now all they need to do is give us the ability to link between gmail and the calendar and google might have a competitor for outlook.

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