Google calendar details leaked

Bloggers are gawking at alleged screenshots of Google's currently-under-construction calendar program.

According to Michael Arrington's Techcrunch blog, which is running the alleged screenshots, the new calendar is tightly integrated with Gmail. Features let people integrate with other calendar applications and share data. The calendar, allegedly dubbed CL2, also has a notification service that uses SMS (Short Message Service).

CL2 also apparently lets people create events that can be viewed on their calendars, or shown to the public, even to people not using the same calendar program.

While the product is still apparently well away from a launch, bloggers are excited about the possibility and are speculating whether the service is a prelude to bigger things for the company, and for online calendars.

Blog community response:

"CL2 looks to be a very strong product from Google (which has by no means been a given over the past year). Plus it seems to me that Google's much-anticipated Web Office Suite is well on the way to becoming a reality."
--Read/Write Web

"I am getting more interested in events, in the structured microformats blogging sense of the word. Will there be 3.0 Edgeio-like 'events' players who crawl the Web for posts on MySpace, Spaces, Wordpress etc. (that are) tagged 'events'...Or will the leader be whoever builds the best centralized widget...Or will the MS/Apple default rule."
--Ben Barren, RSS'ing Down Under

"The space has gone from having no good solutions to having a number of good options in very quick time, and Google entering the market will make it even more competitive."
--Nik Cubrilovic