"The point that most scheduling tools miss is that scheduling is not a simple matter of data sharing. It's a complex negotiation. TimeBridge lets you manage that negotiation across different user environments and among multiple individuals."
Esther Dyson, author of the Release 0.9 blog for ZDNet/CNET Networks

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March 23, 2008: PC World: 101 Fantastic FreebiesWhether you're partial to online services or to downloadable software, we have the Web's best free stuff and it'll keep you productive, secure, and entertained. (more...)

March 7, 2008: Web Worker Daily: TimeBridge Makes Meeting Scheduling EasyScheduling meetings is a necessary chore we face in business. Managing multiple person's calendars and finding a good time to meet involves many back and forth emails. This is especially true when the persons you're trying to meet with are on another electronic calendaring system. (more...)

January 9, 2008: Lifehacker: TimeBridge Finds and Confirms Agreeable Meeting TimesSetting up a meeting agenda is easy — at least compared with the task of finding a time that all the participants can and will make. TimeBridge, a free meeting scheduling web app, sends out emails to every attendee you enter in and asks them which of the five time slots you've picked out work for them. If they all reply, TimeBridge figures out which time works best, confirms it and emails you back. (more...)

January 7, 2008: PC World: TimeBridge ReviewMeetings may be a necessary evil, but the time required to schedule them can be a real productivity killer. Microsoft Outlook has helpful tools such as shared calendars and auto-selection of meeting times, but its usefulness is limited to people within the same company. TimeBridge, a free Web-based service, surpasses Outlook's approach, allowing you to quickly and easily schedule meetings with anyone, no matter what e-mail service, calendaring app, or browser they have — and they don't even need to be TimeBridge users. (more...)

December 13, 2007: Wired: TimeBridge: Scheduling Made EasyTimeBridge, an online calendar mashup that wants to take the pain out of scheduling meetings and coordinating calendars across multiple providers, has announced it's dropping its beta status and opening up to the public. Most of us set up meetings by sending out a mass e-mail to all the people we’d like to see attend and then wait for the replies to trickle in so we can find the best time. (more...)

December 11, 2007: VentureBeat: TimeBridge Launches Scheduling Tool for Busy ProfessionalsTwo-and-a-half year old startup TimeBridge is launching its flagship scheduling product today, and it’s a product that shines with simplicity. Plenty of internet startups have made a business out of saving time for busy professionals. TimeBridge’s niche is cutting down the time it takes to schedule meetings. (more...)

November 21, 2007: PC Magazine: TimeBridge awarded Editors' ChoiceTimeBridge is a well-designed, easy-to-use Web site/service that makes setting up meetings with people at different companies a far more streamlined process than what most people do today — endless e-mailing back and forth. Best of all, it's free. (more...)

September 10, 2007: Webware: Highly useful: TimeBridge makes scheduling easyI wrote favorably about the idea of TimeBridge last year. It's a service that's supposed to make scheduling meetings less of pain in the neck, by letting an organizer send out several proposed times for a meeting, and then coordinating the replies of attendees until everyone agrees on a single time, at which point it will lock in the agreed-on time for everyone and release the tentative hold it had on the alternate spots. (more...)

August 14, 2007: TechCrunch: TimeBridge: Now Synching Your Meetings Through The WebTimeBridge is a San Francisco-based startup that wants to do one thing very well: help with scheduling meetings. They originally started out as a deeply integrated Outlook plug-in launched at the end of last year. While initially distinguishing them from other scheduling competitors, I have a feeling that the plug-in requirement added unnecessary friction to using the system. (more...)

June 1, 2007: Messaging News: Calendaring: Why Isn't It Just Like Email?A shot in the dark from a blind-folded hunter has an extremely slim probability of doing anything but making noise. Yet for pretty much everyone involved in scheduling meetings today, we wear blindfolds and end up only making electronic noise. “Are you free at 10am on Tuesday to talk about the strategic review?” we write in email messages to the people we want to meet with, hoping against hope that it won't take too long to get a meeting arranged. (more...)

April 11, 2007: Network World: 10 Enterprise Software Companies to WatchTimeBridge for Outlook, a personal scheduling manager that adds Web 2.0-like collaboration features to Microsoft Outlook. “With TimeBridge one-step scheduling,” the company states on its Web site, “you select participants and send alternative meeting times using your Outlook e-mail. TimeBridge does all the rest — collects everyone’s availability, quickly finds and confirms the best time, creates an online space for documents and comments, and updates your calendar.” (more...)

March 30, 2007: Meetings Focus: Time-saving Tech Tools — New applications eliminate the drudge workWhile many planners find themselves squeezed for time these days, the good news is that there is a growing choice of technology tools that bring efficiency and cost savings to the meeting planning process. Although there is no one perfect answer for every planner’s needs, a wide variety of software applications have been developed over the years to automate the extensive — and sometimes tedious — details involved in meeting planning. (more...)

November 7, 2006: CNET Blog: The official start-ups of Web 2.0There are several new companies and products being unveiled at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco this week. I'll be reporting on as many of them as I can at our new Web apps blog, Webware.com. Only thirteen companies were selected to participate in the "Launch Pad" sessions on Tuesday. Chosen from more than 200 applicants (I'm trying to get ahold of that list.), these are supposed to be the most promising of the current crop of Web 2.0 start-ups. (more...)

November 7, 2006: Webware: Rafe Needleman's Blog: TimeBridge fixes group schedulingMost of us waste a lot of time trying to find times for meetings. Inside a company, Microsoft Outlook users (on Exchange servers) can see the times their coworkers are free and busy. It's a good start, but when we want to schedule a meeting with multiple people or meet with people outside our company, everything can quickly fall apart. TimeBridge is trying to solve this problem, with a system that handles the negotiation of finding meeting times. (more...)

November 7, 2006: Red Herring: TimeBridge Eases SchedulingPersonal scheduling startup TimeBridge debuted Tuesday and has secured a first round of funding of $6 million from Mayfield Fund and Norwest Venture Partners. The startup will launch at O’Reilly Media’s Web 2.0 conference along with 12 other companies. (more...)

November 7, 2006: PC Magazine: Startup's Outlook Plugin Hopes To Make Scheduling Easier "What Time Is Good For You?"TimeBridge, a new scheduling tool, has come out of stealth mode, just in time for the Web 2.0 Summit. On Tuesday, the company released a beta version of its Personal Scheduling Manager that works with Microsoft Outlook and any browser-based email client to take the drudgery out of scheduling. (more...)

November 7, 2006: Collaboration Loop: TimeBridge Previews Personal Scheduling ManagerTimeBridge today previewed the first Personal Scheduling Manager, a new technology that gives users a faster, more efficient way to schedule meetings and manage their time. TimeBridge’s solution was unveiled today at O’Reilly Media’s prestigious Web 2.0 Conference’s Launch Pad event. (more...)

November 7, 2006: The Collaboration Blog: Annoying Collaboration ProblemsThere are some problems in the collaboration space that are annoying to all of us, but don’t really cause enough pain (in each instance) to demand an elegant solution to the problem. One of these problems I just wrote about in our “Technologies to Watch” blog, and uses YON software’s MeetingSense to deal with the annoying problem of meeting quality and outcomes. (more...)

November 7, 2006: StartupSquad: TimeBridge launches and announces $6 million in fundingTimeBridge today launched its scheduling product that aims to bring busy people together easily. The Personal Scheduling Manager from TimeBridge integrates with Microsoft Outlook to enable quicker and efficient scheduling of meetings. TimeBridge also announced that it has secured $6 million in funding from Mayfield Fund and Norwest Venture Partners. Using TimeBridge Outlook uses can select participants and send alternative meeting times. (more...)

November 7, 2006: Go2web2: TimeBridge — Personal Scheduling ManagerTimeBridge's one-step scheduling allows users to quickly determine the best time to meet, establish meeting centric trust networks and automatically provision an online shared meeting space. With TimeBridge, you select participants and send alternative meeting times using your Outlook email. TimeBridge does all the rest, collects everyone's availability, quickly finds and confirms the best time, creates an online space for documents and comments, and updates your calendar. (more...)

November 22, 2005: Jennifer Pahlka's CollaborationLoop blog: A Light at the End of the Scheduling Hell Tunnel?I’ve been planning to write about calendaring for several months now, but time, ahem, keeps getting away from me. I’m pleased to see that this area is now the focus of some innovative start ups and getting some attention from the likes of Esther Dyson. She interviews Yori Nelken, who is working on launching TimeBridge, early next year. (more...)

November 20, 2005: Esther Dyson's blog: Interview with YoriBack in 1997, Yori Nelken founded Banter, a company that used AI in the form of statistical modeling, natural language processing and machine learning to help automate call-center response and improve agents’ productivity. Now as the Banter technology is doing well as part of IBM, Nelken is tackling the wider and much more common productivity problem of scheduling meetings. (more...)

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