[General] Cozi

[Jared Rhine]

Random pointer to Yet Another PIM-related service; this one focused on 
families:

   www.cozi.com

And a quick blog post describing how kids adapt to usage of the 
interface for family scheduling:

   http://blogs.cozi.com/coziconnection/2007/09/its-hard-to-bel.html

Notable to me:

* Very nice homepage.  The boundaries on the page help the page design 
work visually when centered, and all the buttons/next-user-actions are 
very clear.  Basic design carried through all pages.

* Offers major features of a home page, calendars, shopping lists, 
messages, and a screen saver(!).

* Offer both a hosted service and downloadable version.

* Syncs with Outlook (uses an Outlook toolbar).  Also supports "send via 
email" to "electronic calendars such as Hotmail, Google, etc" and "send 
to phone".

* Nice "upcoming events" display

Nothing specific to followup on.  I thought the blog post was reasonably 
interesting, and just cataloguing other product efforts to hit the 
"small group collaboration" space seemed worth this email.

-- Jared