Kiko update

Posted by Richard White Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:14:54 GMT

I’m currently on the last leg of my journey from Boston after spending a solid week with the rest of the Kiko team hammering out the final details of our next release. We are on the cusp of being feature complete (I’m sure any project managers in the audience are chuckling at that sentiment) and I’d say that the features are pretty impressive even if I weren’t biased.

Here’s a little background if you haven’t heard about Kiko yet. Kiko is an online calendar much like any of the multitude of other other calendars out there except Kiko was one of the first to employ Ajax to create rich functionality such as dragging and dropping appointments. The beta was released last September and has garnered a lot of interest on the internet as whole. The initial beta went well and we learned a lot about what works and what doesn’t. With that in mind we went back to work on the next release, the one that would take the beta out of the header.

My role, since I joined the team soon after the beta release, has been to create the best web calendar UI in the world for the next release. We’ve basically been in stealth mode since that initial beta, holed up in dark closets slaving away to create the most usable and beautiful calendar on the web (at least I’ve been slaving away on that; the other guys are more into things like features and functionality. Bah! :) ). I realize I’m setting the bar pretty high here, but I think the web calendar space could using a little bar raising, don’t you?

I’ll be dropping more hints and updates over coming weeks as we get closer to the big day. Joel Spolsky, be prepared to eat your heart out!