Montreal Tech Watch

Tungle, which offers a collaborating calendaring software, launched today a website questioning the state of current calendars. A series of videos and texts tells us how existing calendars are just software representations of paper calendars and how they do not help us in our daily online life.

The videos stars Marc Gingras, founder of Tungle, the Tungle team, as well as Tungle’s new board members: Robert Scoble, Ellen Levy, Don Dodge, etc. It also features key people from IBM, yahoo, Plancast and Facebook.

The interviewees tells us about the current information overload, from emails, social networks and news websites. Then they allude that a brand new calendaring software could be in fact help us manage this busy digital life: this calendar would connect with the different platforms, would interact well with data, in a transparent way.

In my opinion, this would mean tungle will have access and manage to our Facebook, plancast, tripit data, our emails, as well as our twitter stream, giving us a 3000 feet view of what’s happening for us and what’s also upcoming, much alike a digital dashboard. I see tungle making strategic alliances with the main platforms on the web, and the fact that they participate in the videos (yahoo mail, plancast, facebook etc.) alludes in that direction. Those are just suppositions though. It’s too early to tell, since apart from the interview soundbites, there isn’t any new features announced for Tungle, and maybe it’s a test for Tungle to see how we react to their ideas. Could this be a website crafted to get customer feedback? or a website to get a movement started? It’s all very mysterious, and the calendering space just got a lot more exciting.