Sounds like a cool app, and something I've been looking for. I guess Google ate it so I'll never get to use it. Too bad. Congrats to the people behind the app though.
Welcoming Timeful to Google
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#22The 'Links to this post' section/feature seems to be a clear backlinks scheme. Am I missing something, or is Google condoning link trading, here?
They are rel="nofollow" links. I think that makes it "okay" in the eyes of Google, but not certain.
I've yet to see a primary source where Google clearly state that they don't mind what you do with nofollow links. It's clear that Google was originally ignoring them, but some of their policies around comment spam and such do suggest that they could pass along negative value to the sites being linked. It's just not clear what circumstances trigger that.
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#23Was this an acquihire or is Google sincerely going to integrate these things into Calendar? If they do, it would be really cool. But Google has also acquired a bunch of other little companies, and it seems like they just digest the teams and have them working on unrelated things.
Google has two competing teams working on this kind of thing: the Gmail/Calendar team and the Inbox team. My guess is that the Timeful people will join one of those teams, and whichever one it is gets to integrate these features
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#24Hmm, I couldn't really get this app to work well for me, but love that the premise is headed to Google, and hopefully their Calendar. I do use Google Calendar all the time, and I would LOVE to be able to say, "do this thing sometime in the next couple of days" and have it linger on my calendar somehow - particularly for personal stuff, like "buy a birthday present for so-and-so" or "sign-up the kids for camp next wee…
I'm building an android app for that in my spare time.
Once it's ready, I'm planning to integrate it with Calendar somehow...
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#25Any info on how Timeful works or their software stack? It sounds like a constraint engine, which (after a term of Prolog 10 years ago) always pique my interest.
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#26I really hate it when a large company acquires a small successful company.
It usually means that a totally generic solution is tied to a single product.
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#27Was this an acquihire or is Google sincerely going to integrate these things into Calendar? If they do, it would be really cool. But Google has also acquired a bunch of other little companies, and it seems like they just digest the teams and have them working on unrelated things.
From what I have heard, Inbox has been conceived by some of the guys behind Sparrow (another Google's acquisition).
There is a good number of simple acqui-hire, but it looks like from time to time, Google also tries to let these people work on their field of expertise.
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#28Maybe I missed it but what is the current fate of Timeful? Shut down or sunsetting?
From an email that was sent to all Timeful accounts: A couple things to note: * Timeful will remain in the App Store, and we'll continue to support it. We won't be adding new features, but we're more than happy to help you with bugs or answer any questions you have. * If you'd like, you can export your data out of Timeful (http://www2.timeful.com/export/) at any time.
I have got to say, that looks like the right way to handle such an acquisition.
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#29I hope the buy a task/todo company soon. Tasks is terrible.
I hope they consolidate keep and tasks into a single product.
It is not a bad thing to try to different competing approaches (inbox vs gmail), but Google does tend to do that a lot.
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#30I hope the buy a task/todo company soon. Tasks is terrible.
Timeful was a TODO/task company, they just approached the problem in a different way, by arguing that the calendar and the TODO list should be the same app, not separate apps. The idea was to have a TODO list with actual time committments associated, and you had the ability to actually schedule your TODO by slotting them into your calendar. Functionally, it was a great idea, but it suffered greatly from a lack of int…
> the calendar and the TODO list should be the same app
Sounds similar the functionality that MS Outlook Windows application offers. Though, I would like to have it on Android & iOS too and with IMAP support.