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Macworld Expo recap

Macworld Expo 2010 is behind us now and it was a resounding success!

Many people predicted this would be the end of Macworld Expo since Apple and many other large vendors had pulled out, so we were expecting the worst. The entire show was held in the North Hall of Moscone center, which in the past was reserved for smaller vendors and affectionately referred to as Tiny Town. So, we setup our little kiosk and wondered "will anyone show up?"

Well, the Mac faithful weren't deterred by Apple's absence and they showed up in droves. And since all the vendors were crammed into the North Hall, it made for a very crowded and exhilarating atmosphere. We met with thousands of new and existing customers and gave non-stop demos.

In addition to meeting with customers, we met with many members of the press and did video interviews with Chuck Joiner and the irrepressible Merlin Mann.

And last but not least, BusyCal won a Mac Observer Editors Choice Award! It was great show and we're looking forward to doing it again next year!

BusyCal awarded MacLife Editors' Choice

 MacLife recently reviewed BusyCal and awarded it an Editors' Choice!

Here's what MacLife had to say:

BusyCal does almost everything iCal does and adds some crucial missing features. In a few short weeks, it's become our default calendar application.

Frankly, BusyCal is such a vast improvement over iCal that we can't imagine switching back.

And in a related article MacLife went on to say:

Imagine iCal on steroids, then imagine that steroidal iCal on a second helping of steroids, and you start to get an idea. BusyMac brings with it so many improvements over the basic calendar, you'll soon wonder why you didn't switch earlier then later wonder what you'd ever done without BusyCal.

Thank you, MacLife, for recognizing the many great features of BusyCal.

BusyCal wins Macworld Eddy Award!

Each year Macworld picks the best Mac software products of the year and honors them with Eddy Awards. Last year they picked BusySync, and this year they picked BusyCal!

Here's what Macworld had to say:

"BusyCal looks a lot like iCal. But it does things iCal can only dream of. It seamlessly syncs with Google Calendar out of the box, shares calendars via Bonjour, and supports multi-person editing. BusyCal did more than revive the calendaring category; it established itself as the category leader."

We couldn't have said it better ourselves. We're really honored to be recognized by Macworld for all the hard work that went into BusyCal 1.0. And we're grateful for the encouragement and feedback we've received from our customers. 

Stay tuned. We're not done yet...

BusySync wins Macworld Eddy Award!

Each year Macworld magazine selects their favorite Mac products and honors them with Editors' Choice Awards.

Back in the day, Macworld hosted lavish black-tie events to hand out "Eddy" Awards — it was the Mac community's equivalent of the Oscars. Today, the awards are distributed via email as JPG attachments. Heh. But who's complaining? Not us!

BusySync won a 2008 Macworld Eddy Award!

According to Macworld's Jason Snell, "BusySync doesn’t quite get us all the way to calendar heaven, but it brought us a darn sight closer than Leopard did this year."

We couldn't agree more. Thank you Macworld! We'll proudly display the Eddy in our virtual trophy case alongside the Macworld Best of Show Award we received last January.

BusySync wins Macworld Best of Show Award!

BusyMac exhibited at Macworld Expo last week where we announced and demonstrated BusySync 2.0. The show was a huge success and far exceeded our expectations. Much to our surprise, Macworld Magazine selected BusySync as a winner of its 2008 Macworld Best of Show Award!

We were one of many developers exhibiting in the developer pavilion next to Apple's booth. The location was excellent, the show was well attended, and the time passed by quickly as we gave non-stop demos.

It was wonderful to meet with so many existing and prospective customers and to receive such unanimous praise and appreciation. Apparently, there are a lot of people with the need to share calendars that have been searching for a solution like BusySync.

Dave and John at Macworld (photo courtesy MacRumors)

And, it was an excellent opportunity to meet with members of the press and demonstrate the product to them. Here's a sampling of the press coverage we received as a result:

• ars technica
• Macintosh News Network
• MacRumors
• MacUser
• Macworld
• Seattle Times
• The Unofficial Apple Weblog

BusySync is fun to demo. We showed how you can add an event on one Mac and it would show up within seconds on the other Mac via Bonjour. Everyone who saw it immediately understood how they could benefit from it. And the new Google Calendar syncing feature in BusySync 2.0 that we were demonstrating for the first time was a huge hit. We now have tons of people anxiously awaiting the public beta release due out at the end of this month.

On that note, we'd better get back to work so we don't keep you waiting much longer for the public beta...