This any help? You could set up a procmail rule to detect invite mails, parse them, and post a new event with gdata.

for the SXSW people, Sched.org also integrates nicely for google calendar.

Brad, one step easier than exporting your facebook events is adding the facebook ical feed to your google calendar.
From here you can click Export Events (at the top) to get your URL. Adding that to gCal will mean all incoming events, maybes and confirmed will show up in your gcal.

The sync with upcoming and facebook is invaluable, and I'm waiting for Evite "integration" as well.

Holy shit, that's perfect!

Thanks!

When you get an invite via email, it sometimes shows a "add this event to your calendar in one click" link over on the right.
They should expose a Greasemonkey API so that other sites (like upcoming) could also get access to this, if they don't already (I don't know what causes that box to trigger).

I am pretty sure my hosted domain gmail picks up ics files automatically.

I used to get emails from my Grad School dept. secretary with dates and times which would automatically create the "add event" link. I think it looks for text - it's not an access thing.

I got a 419 as an invite from Google calendar the other day. Of course, I tried to report it as spam and got a failure notice:

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
gmail-form+main@google.com
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 16): 552 5.6.0 Headers too large (16384 max)

as it put the entire content into a X-Trak-Extra-Content header. Fail. Apologies for using your blog as a bugzilla, but bugging Google employees seems to be the only way to get bugs in Google products fixed as you still don't have a public bug tracker. http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/2008/03/05/quality-oversights-googles-public-services/ http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-12-19.html#n51

Dream! Does someone need to remind you that you're on the inside, now!? 20% it!

If facebook would provide an unique-URL type of ICS feed of your events that you can use to subscribe in gcal/iCal, I would love it, but it does seem to contradict their walled-garden idea they seem to love so much.

they do! see my above comment

OMG. I can't stand having to look at Evite. Blinding.

Pownce has various ical feeds (including a google calendar link) at http://pownce.com/events/ You just need to subscribe once. I could also probably add an ics attachment to email... annoying or helpful?

ical feeds? Perfect!

If Dapper.net supported logging in as you, you could probably use it to pretty easily build the Evite -> RSS scraper.

I have an rss->ical (with Google Calendar "web content") script here. Right now, it probably doesn't do what you want, but it shouldn't be too hard to modify...

Hey there, thanks for the Upcoming.org props.

There is a standard for sending RSVPs, but as far as I can tell, it doesn't have the concept of "maybe" attending and, it only works over email (RFCs 2445, 2446, 2447). It seems to me that neither Outlook nor GCal are following it, but I'm not a standards guru here.

Maybe we should start the ball rolling on this question with GCal and Zimbra and so on. In any case, I'll keep thinking about it.

i love the crush3r people and i'm pretty sure they do have a way to export the events from the invite pages themselves...