A Google Calendar Theory

A second-level domain redirects to Google.com instead of returning a 404, and everyone goes mad; yup, it's Friday alright. Let's lay the groundwork first: calendar.google.com has numerous sources agog yesterday. Want to see why? seen that before. Could it mean something? This is what happened before Google Talk went live; talk.google.com started returning the Google homepage instead of bringing the Internet to a wrapped up with their NASA agreement, it makes sense they would go after time next. The mystery of the Google calendar might be an easy one to solve. We know Mozilla created a for-profit foundation over the summer. We also know guessed in August that what Mozilla really wanted to monetize was the Calendar Project. Perhaps this is it. Google Calendar will be Mozilla's Calendar Project, except it will be a Web-based hosted application running on Google's servers and tied nicely into Gmail and Google Talk. Mozilla would really become for-profit then. The guess in August was that Mozilla had a calendar to sell. The guess in September is Mozilla now has a buyer. And calendar.google.com will soon return something different than the Google home page. David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business. Email him