Calgoo - How Bad do you Want Free
As you may have read from various sources, Calgoo has dropped the subscription model and is going for the advertising gold by inserting ads in your calendar. Calgoo, is a calendaring sharing/syncing application which isn't a bad way to deal with lots of calendaring issues we all face.
Personally, my calendar is the last bastion of spam free activity and it is going to stay that way. Free has it limits and I believe this is one of those limits. If the product is good and seriously solves my problems, I'll pay for it, thanks.
[Disclosure: JLA has an investment in Tungle which plays in the same sandbox.
Only problem is it looks like you're the minority. Everyone expects everything for free these days if its online. Hell even if its not most people will just pirate something. Clearly Calgoo has issues with seeing viable returns for their paid for product, this could be because the product is shit, or because everyone doesnt want to pay for anything these days its hard to say, either way it looks like this was their next best option.
Posted by: Mike DaSenza | July 24, 2008 at 15:01
Having looked at Tungle (it's ironic that a disclaimer can also be an ad ;) I'm struggling to figure out what it's business model is. How are they paying for things when the money from JLA runs out? I'm kind of interested in the product but not understanding the business model it's using/going to use I'm not sure if I dare.
Posted by: Colin Newell | July 24, 2008 at 15:38
Based on this
http://calgoo.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/so-where-are-the-ads/
Seems like there wouldnt be any ads added to ur private calendars, you might only see ads if u share your calendar with their HUB calendar server. Well, at least for now :)
Posted by: Pat | July 24, 2008 at 17:12
Glad to know Tungle will remain free of ads if you have anything to do with it ^_^
Posted by: Alex G | July 31, 2008 at 17:11