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Comment by dskhatri | Hacker News Reader

Kudos for the nice simple styling and layout! A few minor points:

- would be great to highlight today's date in the calendar

- I don't know about the general populus but I never allow any site to import my gmail/yahoo contacts. The address book also links to plaxo. Can't you implement an import yourself?

- would be great to add a google map widget

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Great comments, thanks!

- Updating the calendar date item is on the top of the list of things to do.

- The address book uses plaxo for now, but plans are definitely in place to replace it with our own import mechanism.

- As for the google map widget, we currently have a mapping feature using google maps if you enter in a location for each event. Is this what you are referring to?

Aha.. cool.. I see the map now! Another suggestion: Coordinatr would be a great app if all my friends were regular users. However, I am guessing that a lot of people would rather use their regular scheduling tools (Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar) to keep track of events. Those calendars don't have as rich a feature-set as coordinatr but are still the first point of schedule tracking. Anyway, my point is: coordinatr can really set itself apart by somehow integrating with these calendar systems (something like how xobni attaches itself to Outlook, but something simpler)!

We're definitely going to integrate with Google Calendar and are currently looking into integration with Outlook and other commonly used calendars. Great recommendation..thanks!

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