We are very happy to make the beta version of MeetMe public today! Doodle MeetMe is your personal scheduling profile that has its own URL (see example). It displays blocked times, which enables business partners and friends to directly enter several proposals for a time to meet. MeetMe connects to your electronic calendar through your MyDoodle account.
Get your own MeetMe URL today or read more in our media update!
Doodle provides a disruptive service for group scheduling and has been a pioneer in this area. Now we’re at it again with one-to-one scheduling.
When two per cent of Doodle users will adopt MeetMe and save an extra half hour per week – this would add up to 60’000 hours saved per week, which is the equivalent to the workforce of a company with about 1’500 employees!
February 8, 2011 at 5:26 pm
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Doodle, Antti Juustila. Antti Juustila said: RT @doodletweet: Doodle launches MeetMe the personal scheduling profile: http://bit.ly/new_meetme [...]
February 11, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Connect it to LinkedIn or Facebook, and add a feature to make it hidden for non friends (password to show?), and I will join drectly!
February 11, 2011 at 1:57 pm
Why that limitation urging user names to be at least four characters long? Please change it to three characters.
February 11, 2011 at 6:17 pm
It looks like the calendar shows not just the blocks of time that are committed but what I’m doing and where I am. Too much information for me to share…. if there is –or will be–an option to show just the blocks of time that I am unavailable, then I’d use it. But as long as the what/where information must show–no thank you. Not in the least interested.
February 11, 2011 at 6:22 pm
[...] MeetMe enjoys an enormous popularity right from the beginning: more than 5’000 people registered for a personal MeetMe-page within the first 48 hours after launch. [...]
February 11, 2011 at 6:42 pm
@Josh: MeetMe only shows the times when you are not available – there are NO appointment details like meeting title, location, … Visitors of your MeetMe profile will see aggregated blocks that consolidate the different appointments and different calendars you might have connected to MyDoodle.
We thought that’s exactly the level of privacy that makes MeetMe attractive to use.
February 11, 2011 at 8:07 pm
Is there an API for MeetMe? I’m thinking the next step for this would be third-party app hooks. Facebook has already been mentioned, which can serve as both a client as well as a source of events. Doodle doesn’t need to support the external interfaces, just the API. Looks like it’s time for me to take another look at the Doodle REST interface too.
February 11, 2011 at 8:15 pm
Tony, we’re always interested to discuss ways to interact with other services. Why don’t you drop as a line here http://www.doodle.com/about/contact.html so we can discuss your ideas?
February 11, 2011 at 8:17 pm
This sounds great if it will work for me. I use MobileMe with my iPhone to coordinate my calendars and those of my family members. I have some questions:
1. Will MyDoodle be able to get calendar information from my existing calendars or will I have to enter it all manually?
2. If it will, where can I find instructions about how to set it up so that it updates itself?
3. How can I protect my privacy? I do not want my URL to be available to just anyone who finds it and I do not want total strangers knowing when I am home and away from home, etc. It seems–at least at first pass–that would be possible with this application.
4. How will MyDoodle and MeetingDoodle be connected, if at all. For example, I have set up a meeting with one person and then we decide that we need others to join us. Will it be possible to use the information from MyDoodle about my availability in MeetingDoodle without re-entering it manually?
Thanks,
Beth
February 11, 2011 at 8:42 pm
@mn – Thanks for your invitation. My point however is that there are any number of things that can be done with Doodle and MeetMe through an API. My ideas are irrelevant as a hundred developers would have as many different ideas. Developers shouldn’t need to discuss their ideas for apps with you, they should be able to just write their apps to help people to make use of your services. Keeping in mind that Doodle is in business to make money, I think an API for developers needs to be available to free accounts, but API access for regular use should probably be a premium function. I can still send a note to “mn” via the contact page but I’m not sure what value that would have. I’m sure you guys are as capable of defining a useful API as I am.
February 11, 2011 at 9:41 pm
Tony, I totally agree. As you know, we already have an API (http://doodle.com/about/APIs.html) and we’ll work to extend its functionality to the MeetMe use cases. I thought you’d like to discuss some specific ideas you had in mind.
February 14, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Dear MeetMe/Doodle Blog:
Please check your English in both your email and blog. I don’t think you meant to use the word “disruptive.”
Kindly,
February 14, 2011 at 5:38 pm
@ Larry: thanks for your comment. We wanted to express our conviction that MeetMe will change the way we schedule one-to-one meetings as fundamentally as Doodle did for group events until now.
More on the term “disruptive”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology
February 14, 2011 at 6:08 pm
Larry M. meant what he said. Disruptive technology is one thing; but the manner in which the word was used is disruptive in a negative sense. You *disrupted* an exciting email announcement with a syntactically correct but aesthetically incorrect choice of words.
At least that’s my opinion. Here’s one way you could have avoided the confusion:
“Just like Doodle turned scheduling on its head, MeetMe will turn the world of personal appointments on its head as well. We hope you are as excited about our newest “disruptive” technology as we are!” (then you could link to the wikipedia entry)
Phil H., editor
February 14, 2011 at 6:16 pm
Great formulation, Phil! We would definitely have avoided the confusion if we used that instead
February 15, 2011 at 3:07 am
I like the look of the calendar. However weekend appointments do not show up as busy. Is there to show this ?
March 28, 2011 at 9:53 pm
I like meet me but I often have to schedule multiple one on one meetings! It looks like I can only suggest open dates to one person at a time. can you make it so I can suggest dates to a group that I can send a link to? Then when someone selects one it is not available to others and so on…
March 29, 2011 at 8:51 am
The idea of your MeetMe-profile is that people can propose times to meet to you. Times you accepted will be blocked in your calendard and the profile (as long as you connected both). When you’re proposing time to others you’d use the standard Doodle and limit the number of participant per option in the poll settings.
April 11, 2011 at 10:25 pm
How do you cancel an event after it has been confirmed? Will there be a MeetMe FAQ set-up sometime in the near future?
January 24, 2012 at 9:33 pm
I’d like to bumb this query: how to delete an appointment once one has accepted a suggested slot through meet me? I regularly come up against this problem. If one synchronizes to sth like GCal then doodle willl eventually update if the slot is deleted directly from GCal. So this is how I have ended up workign around it. But that’s cumbersome, takes some time, and requires a calendar app. How can I do it direct, in doodle?
January 25, 2012 at 1:23 pm
We ware aware of this issue and we’ll be working on an elegant solution.
March 21, 2012 at 7:28 am
The MeetMe seems so great for business meeting scheduling. However, i have concerns like mentioned above by Ted and hope your team can solve the issue asap. I also have a question to ask here. If i need to schedule meetings for two bosses on daily basis, how can i do it? as i can not access their email. Can i use my doodle account to create two separate URLs under their names? I am currently serving two senior executives and need to schedule meetings for them with the suppliers who frequently request meetings. I would greatly appreciate your prompt reply. Thanks!!!
March 21, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Hi Christine, thanks for your input! What you ask for is a natural evolution of MeetMe and we’ll take in into consideration the next time we work on MeetMe! For the time beeing, you can connect your executives’ calendars to your Doodle account – then you have all at one spot. If you need two separate profiles and URLs then you need to create an account for each one. Hope this helps for the moment!
May 3, 2012 at 5:18 pm
Is there anyway to set a different availability? I have doodle synced with my outlook, but on my meetme page I only want to show that I am available between 9 and 5. Is this possible?
May 3, 2012 at 6:27 pm
We have this on the general wishlist and will come with a paid version that includes it. Current work arounds: indicate your general availability in the “good to know”-section or add an additional calendar (feed) that blocks out all non-office times.