Gijit: It's like Rapportive for Google Calendar

#1

Post by adraper » Thu, May 10, 2012, 1:00 PM UTC

Gijit: It's like Rapportive for Google Calendar
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Re: Gijit: It's like Rapportive for Google Calendar

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Post by captaincrunch » Thu, May 10, 2012, 1:08 PM UTC

This is great.. been looking for something like this for quite some time now. It is suggesting locations for meetings between myself and the person I am meeting with... its dead on-- does it use GEO-IP?

Re: Gijit: It's like Rapportive for Google Calendar

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Post by adraper » Thu, May 10, 2012, 1:19 PM UTC

captaincrunch wrote: post #2

This is great.. been looking for something like this for quite some time now. It is suggesting locations for meetings between myself and the person I am meeting with... its dead on-- does it use GEO-IP?

Not entirely, we do a bit of natural language checking for partial addresses in the location field of your meetings and make some assumptions, but the better the location the easier for us to geo-code :)

Re: Gijit: It's like Rapportive for Google Calendar

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Post by captaincrunch » Thu, May 10, 2012, 1:23 PM UTC

adraper wrote: post #3

captaincrunch wrote: post #2

This is great.. been looking for something like this for quite some time now. It is suggesting locations for meetings between myself and the person I am meeting with... its dead on-- does it use GEO-IP?

Not entirely, we do a bit of natural language checking for partial addresses in the location field of your meetings and make some assumptions, but the better the location the easier for us to geo-code :)

Well that is very cool. I'm meeting my co-founder today at a small cafe we saw a few times, but never tried it out - thanks, I've just rescheduled a few meetings now! (for the suggestions!) :D

Re: Gijit: It's like Rapportive for Google Calendar

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Post by adraper » Thu, May 10, 2012, 1:26 PM UTC

captaincrunch wrote: post #4

adraper wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not entirely, we do a bit of natural language checking for partial addresses in the location field of your meetings and make some assumptions, but the better the location the easier for us to geo-code :)

Well that is very cool. I'm meeting my co-founder today at a small cafe we saw a few times, but never tried it out - thanks, I've just rescheduled a few meetings now! (for the suggestions!) :D

Awesome—let us know what else you'd like to see, would love your feedback!

Re: Gijit: It's like Rapportive for Google Calendar

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Post by esmentor » Thu, May 10, 2012, 1:31 PM UTC

This is amazing! Everyone is doing stuff the inbox (xobni), glad to see things for the calendar. Maybe you shd name yourselves radnelac?

Re: Gijit: It's like Rapportive for Google Calendar

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Post by hajrice » Thu, May 10, 2012, 1:32 PM UTC

Here's the main problem: People dont live in their Google Calendar.

Your main value prop is: Know what you have to do in the next 48-hours. But the problem is, I have to go open up my calendar to see that with your app...why even install then, when GCal can tell me what I have up in the next 48h.

The key would be for it to run in where I spend most of my day -- my inbox, not my calendar.

Re: Gijit: It's like Rapportive for Google Calendar

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Post by adraper » Thu, May 10, 2012, 1:33 PM UTC

esmentor wrote: post #6

This is amazing! Everyone is doing stuff the inbox (xobni), glad to see things for the calendar. Maybe you shd name yourselves radnelac?

LOL, oddly that never even made the list of possible names, but I like it! :)

Re: Gijit: It's like Rapportive for Google Calendar

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Post by NeilRShah » Thu, May 10, 2012, 1:36 PM UTC

I've been looking for this for a while! Great work!

Re: Gijit: It's like Rapportive for Google Calendar

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Post by adraper » Thu, May 10, 2012, 1:37 PM UTC

hajrice wrote: post #7

Here's the main problem: People dont live in their Google Calendar. Your main value prop is: Know what you have to do in the next 48-hours. But the problem is, I have to go open up my calendar to see that with your app...why even install then, when GCal can tell me what I have up in the next 48h. The key would be for it to run in where I spend most of my day -- my inbox, not my calendar.

We do provide additional information not in your calendar, but I totally see your point, and we're working on this — in fact addressing this challenge is a key part of what we'll be tackling in our next updates to the extension.