We’ve been inviting people to and attending parties through Facebook for years and years and years, but only now are they finally easy to look at: calendar view is here.
The idea of putting all of your Facebook events (and friends’ birthdays) onto a calendar within Facebook is so obvious that it’s sort of sad that it took a “hackathon” until dawn to come up with it—but we’re not complaining.
Facebook events now sport a calendar view, which is exactly what it sounds like. Instead of the current, stupid format which lists events you have in the coming days and then jumps to “later this month,” now you have all of your stuff in a nice big calendar. It’s a calendar. Ever used a calendar? It looks like that—bunch of boxes with things written on it and pictures of people who will turn a year older on that date. It progresses, inexorably, the march of time ever apparent. It’s extremely useful, extremely simple, and extremely welcome.
If you don’t have the new look now, you should soon—Facebook has already begun rolling it out. [Facebook via VentureBeat]













Oh look here’s a coincidence. Google launches the beautiful and Google calender integrated Events system in G+ and suddenly Facebook events (which has sucked for years) gets a major facelift. could these 2 events be in any way connected?
But Google copied practically their entire G+ website concept from Facebook, so fair’s fair, I reckon.
Rubbish. G+ is way nicer looking than Facebluergh.
Who ripped off MySpace who ripped off Friendster etc..
Actually, Google released Orkut which was created by Orkut Büyükkökten a Google employee, one month before Facebook.
Orkut was created in January 24, 2004
Facebook was created in February 4, 2004
Orkut Wiki http://goo.gl/mV4RY
Facebook Wiki http://goo.gl/2fYYL
Funny enough I think the only reason that Facebook became more popular than Orkut is that you needed to be invited to use Orkut and Facebook would just take anybody (my humble opinion).
Sorry, not one month. Just a few days.
I’m guessing a gCal lab to integrate this into my calender might be a bit much to ask with G+ being a competitor…
G+ events is integrated to gCal.