You Must Be Lost

As a parent, I hang out with a lot of parents. One thing is consistent, technology has done a disservice to parents. For a group who is very busy, has demanding schedules and are in dire need of tools, they are underserved.

For example, Palm used to have this cool freeware package called DualDate. The idea was that you could share your calendar with someone else for coordination by beaming it to them. So, if you were at lunch, you could just share your latest calendars. 98% of the people who used it were husband and wife and usually for coordination of child activities. In fact, I know people who bought their Palms because of DualDate alone. Palm has managed to abandon the idea. However, you can still get it and use it as long as you don't have Palm OS5. http://software.palmone.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=291&catalog=0§ionId=0&productType=2&platformId=1&productId=32264

Another product called WeSync had promise but was also abandoned. Palm has finally sold it to someone so we'll see what happens.

My latest project hopes to address some of this angst. I'm rolling out a new service called Free Your Time. It is designed to allow parents to find, research and purchase child activities. Try scheduling summer camps for three kids and you'll see the value. Check out Freeyourtime.com to see more.