Posted on April 27, 2011, at 10:54 AM .
RIM has announced its acquisition of Tungle.me, makers of the innovative calendar and scheduling app. Tungle.me has an ingenious system of plugging into existing calendar apps and the cleverest feature of being able to share your availability with people you wish to meet with. Ease of use, compatibility and portability are design philosophies that have led to Tungle’s popularity among 40% of Fortune 1000 companies and lots of universities and colleges.
No direct news on whether or not the new RIM-led Tungle will continue to develop and support software for the two competing mobile platforms they support: iOS and Android. In the open letter to customers about the acquisition, Tungle CEO and founder Marc Gingras wrote that the “Tungle team is focusing on putting the puck in the net for you, our customers.” This leads me to believe that they won’t be dropping out of markets they are already a success in.
Tungle.me should make a good addition to RIM’s first-party software library.
Posted on April 23, 2010, at 10:37 AM .
Marc Gingras is, simply put, an entrepreneur. Someone who finds the gaps in the way we work and fills them in a way that makes you wonder what you did before and why no one thought of it before. He’s also the founder and CEO of Tungle, an online meeting manager that makes it simple to schedule meetings, regardless of the calendaring system you and your invitees use — and now regardless of device you store on your hip.
You get a sense of what Marc is about almost immediately — he’s focused, determined and excited about what he’s doing and that excitement is viral just like his product. One of the things that stuck with me is what he terms the “Tungle Hierarchy of Needs” — you’ll have to watch to get all the details but, clearly, it is something that blew me away.
Full disclosure on this one — when you get two Canadians talking technology you can count on an animated and passionate conversation, second only to hockey.
Posted on April 22, 2010, at 10:21 AM .
Neatcall is a free personal mobile scheduling assistant that seems to work much like Tungle by providing the optimal timeslot for any type of communication. Where Tungle focuses on scheduling meetings in general, Neatcall seems to break the type of meeting down into face-to-face, conference call, web meetings and video conferences.
Features of Neatcall include:
- Scheduling all online and offline communications through one application.
- Offering several time slots and automatically selecting the optimal one.
- Unlimited events and unlimited number of invitees!
- Multi messaging – you decide how to send invitations to your colleagues, by EMAIL, simple SMS, or WAP link.
- Analyzing the responses content of all messaging formats.
- Speed Mode Reply mechanism – picking optimal time slots in seconds.
- Four different scheduling situations: “Full Match” if all users pick the same time slot, “Best Match” if one time.
- Slot is picked by most invitees, “Equal Match” if there are more than two equal time slots and “No Match” when there is no selected time slot so you can offer new time slots.
I’ll have to play around with this app more to determine what advantages, if any, it provides over the Tungle app. It’s great to see that it’s free so you have nothing to lose by checking it out.
Download Neatcall for free in App World.
Posted on April 19, 2010, at 8:46 AM .
Tungle, the easiest way to schedule meetings, have officially launched their free BlackBerry app to the general public. This application provides the same core services as the Tungle.me web app, allowing users to share calendar information in order to find a time to meet that suits both parties.
The Tungle for BlackBerry app allows users to:
- Create, send and receive meeting invitations;
- Share calendars with other Tungle.me users;
- See others’ free/busy status at a glance to know if they are available to meet;
- And sync calendars and contacts.
Head over to the Tungle site and grab the free download.
For an idea of what to expect, see the beta review.
Posted on April 14, 2010, at 4:53 PM .
Google Apps has been an incredible cost saver for SMBs and the Google Apps Marketplace is a great place to discover productivity tools that will help your business. One of those productivity tools is Tungle.me, which is now available to companies who want an easy way to schedule meetings internally or with clients.
Check out Tungle.me in the Google Apps Marketplace.
