Google Calendar set to make a date

Google Calendar, available at www.google.com/calendar is their latest salvo against rivals such as Yahoo and Microsoft, unveiling a free online calendar service. The web calendar lets people store appointments, receive reminders and share schedules with others across the internet.

Users can type in events such as “pub 7pm tonight”, and the calendar will automatically schedule the event, allowing you to make it private or available for viewing by friends or even the whole web.

By making events available for public viewing you have the potential to open a whole new sphere of business online marketing possibilities. Sign up for it (free) and have a play!

Office furniture - Lean and green and just up the road!

First Fruit Warehouse was set up in November 2002 as part of the work of the East London based charity First Fruit. The focus is to develop training opportunities, employment experience, life-skills support and back-to-work initiatives for people with a history of unemployment and / or homelessness.

First fruit warehouse was set up in partnership with Green-Works (see ‘partners’, to store, recycle and re-sell office furniture. The furniture comes from a range of Corporate Donors who no longer need their office furniture. The vision for Greenworks was to divert as much office furniture as possible from landfill sites.

The warehouse is 32,000 square feet. They employ around ten staff to recycle and re-sell our furniture. They process around 400 tons of furniture each month.

Just up the road from Waterfront Studios on the Kierbeck Business Complex in the direction of City Airport. Full contact details on their website.

East End Film Festival April 27th - May 4th

The East End Film Festival brings a week long series of unique film-inspired experiences to venues across east London, challenging our perceptions not only of cinema, but of the East End itself. Expect to see the best of the UK’s hot young talent, plus some of the most established and skilled filmmakers in the industry today all coming together at the festival to promote independent cinema and the East End.

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Penny for your thoughts... Alt-weekly for London

The Penny is a brand new, completely independent alternative weekly newspaper for London. Relentlessly focused on the capital, The Penny will combine hard-hitting journalism with the kind of irreverent features and incisive arts coverage that knock all existing London publications into a cocked hat.

They have 5,000 copies of their pilot issue to give away. To get yours, simply email your postal address to pilot@pennylondon.co.uk and they will do the rest. Your personal information will remain strictly private.

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Whats on at Excel in April?

1st-2nd The London International Dive Show (public)
2nd-3rd Careers & Jobs Live (public)
5th-6th Local e-gov EXPO National Event (trade)
7th-9th A Place in the Sun Live, in association with Barclays (public)
19th-22nd Flora London Marathon Sports Exhibition (public)
20th-23rd The Home Show (public)
22nd Salute (public)
27th-30th London Golf Show 2006 (public)