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September 15th, 2008 by Wilfred
Microsoft is finally following the path of Google Calendar with their Windows Live Calendar beta. All calendars on MarkThisDate.com can now also be added directly to Windows Live Calendar beta. They’re not there yet, especially talking to their support people is like pushing thick mud through a tiny funnel. But all in all, if you used to be a big Hotmail fan and now really dig Windows Live this is absolutely a great calendar to use! If you want to follow the progress they make check out their blog.
Oh, and make sure that you get your settings right in order to handle timezones correctly. This is what Mechell says over at the Windows Live Calendar Beta Technical Support: “…. in order to reconcile the time zone settings on your calendar, you must have the same time zone settings with your Windows Live ID account and Windows Live Calendar Beta. To verify and set the time zone setting for your Windows Live ID account, visit account.live.com.”
July 28th, 2008 by Rutger
Thanks to our partnership with Hugin, one the biggest distributors of corporate news in the world, you’re now able to receive press releases and financial calendars of over 1800 companies world wide in your iCal, Gcal or Outook. If you are a serious investor what better than to find the next shareholders meeting or the latest press release in the place where it is most logical …. in your calendar. For example the AKZO Nobel press releases
July 24th, 2008 by Rutger
The 23rd of Juli marks the first steps of Markthisdate into the fashion arena. In collaboration with the
Amsterdam International Fashion Week MarkThisDate offers the complete public programme of the AIFW on the AIFW website and MarkThisDate.com for download purposes. Aimed at the international fashion press corps the service makes it easier to attend the AIFW events at the right time and place.
July 9th, 2008 by Wilfred
Last weekend was the start of Tour de France. Together with tour.nusport.nl, one of the specials of Nu.nl, we launched a special Tour de France widget so visitors of tour.nusport.nl can add all stages to their calendar. 
The ‘special’ thing is that we extended our widget. It now not only shows an add-to-calendar button but also the next 5 stages. This number of stages that are shown is arbitrary of course. We can also show 10, 15 or all stages for instance. The greatest thing of this extended widget is that we now also unlock the events itself and open the door for:
a. companies and websites that have events but do not show them on their website at this moment; and
b. companies that want to add other than their own events to their website
June 11th, 2008 by Bas
Today at the Dutch National Publisher’s Conference, MarkThisDate presented itself as one of five innovative publishing concepts. This short ‘pitch’ turned out to be a competition which, in all modesty, we just had to win. 
Not only did the panel of professionals immediately recognize the power of Calvertising and the commercial promise of MarkThisDate.com, but in the end the entire public chose us as the most (potentially) successful concept.
Of course the “grand prize” was nothing more than recognition of our work, which is always appreciated. Cheers!
May 19th, 2008 by Wilfred
Today we launched Festivalkalenders.nl, our second spinoff aimed at a specific target group. In this case our target group are the visitors of the major summer festivals like Pinkpop and North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland and Belgium. In most cases these festivals last for days with a lot of different stages on which artists perform.
Of course you don’t take your laptop to a festival but when you sync your electronic calendar with you mobile phone as i do, the complete program of a festival is added to your phone in the blink of an eye and always with you during the festival. Quite handy if you would ask me!
Check it all out at www.festivalkalenders.nl
April 28th, 2008 by Wilfred
As of today you can add calendars to MarkThisDate without registering first. Just send us the publicly available calendar address and the calendar will be added under the user ‘guest’. If you want to add calendars by submitting your events manually or you want to get credits for you calendar entry you still have to register first.
April 24th, 2008 by Wilfred
Strating (Active Marketing) is again organizing the so called ‘inhaakawards ‘or ‘hook on awards’ around the major sporting events in 2008, the Olympics in Beijing and UEFA EURO 2008 in Austria and Switzerland. An expert jury judges on originality in the categories Newspapers/Print, Radio/TV, Internet and SP/Instore. We’re very proud to anounce that we are nominated for a ‘Gouden Inhaakmedaille’ in the category Internet for our spin-off Mooiesportzomer.nl. On this website visitors can very easily add all match schedules of the three major sportevents of this summer (EURO 2008, Tour de France and OS) to their calendars. MarkThisDate is nominated next to companies like Nuon, Lotto en Rexona. If you like our spin-off go to the website click on ‘Inhakers EK 2008′ and vote for Mooiesportzomer.nl.
April 14th, 2008 by Wilfred
Last Friday we launched a nice spinoff of MarkThisDate. For EURO 2008 in June, the Tour de France in July and the Olympics 2008 in Beijing in August the event schedules can now also be found on Mooiesportzomer.nl.
We are planning on implementing more of these theme websites. For instance one with the line ups (including start en end times and stage locations) of the summer festivals in Holland. If you have suggestions for other theme websites, or want to start a theme website in collaboration with us just contact us or respond here.
April 7th, 2008 by Wilfred
We’re pretty excited about our partnership with Tuxx.nl. Tuxx offers business related information and helpful documents to professionals. They also provide lots of dates which can now also be delivered to calendars. For Tuxx this means they can get their dates into the hart of the computer of their users, namely their electronic calendar. For us this means that we get access to an important user group, namely the business user.