Pinning Doodle in the Internet Explorer takes seconds: click the icon to the left of the web address in One Box, or the tab for the website, or the website’s icon on the New Tab page, and then drag it to the taskbar. That’s it. Once it’s pinned, it shows up as its own thumbnail, separate from Internet Explorer. Now all it takes is one click to start scheduling an event.

Further information: Microsoft product page

Doodle will remain unchanged in all major aspects, especially concerning the free service, the Premium accounts, and the advertising platform, both now and in the future. The operational lead will stay with Michael Näf and Paul E. Sevinç as co-owners, executive directors, and board members. Doodle’s team of 11 people will continue to work on the project at the Technopark in Zurich.

“We’re happy to announce this partial exit that allows us to benefit from synergies with Tamedia and gives us room to operate and grow independently and remain open for additional international partnerships,” said Doodle CEO Michael Näf. The details of the transaction will be submitted to the Swiss Federal Competition Commission and the parties agreed to keep them confidential.

We’re glad about beeing a launch partern for SAP! Holly Simmons (senior director, On Demand Marketing, SAP) said in the press release: “Our customers need ways to work quickly, flexibly and fluidly across a broad range of applications and capabilities, including what they already use today. With OpenSocial, we’re pleased to be able to rapidly extend SAP StreamWork with solutions from leading organizations to deliver a seamless and productive user experience.”

The European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS) is the premier conference series for both researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest advances in the state of the art and practices of Web services and to foster cross-European collaboration and exchange. The 9th edition of the ECOWS series will be held on September 14-16 2011 at the
University of Lugano, Switzerland. Doodle is media partner of the ECOWS2011.

Wuala, Memonic and Doodle stand for excellent Swiss web services that help you to more easily organize your life and access your information. We want to make it even easier for you to enter the world of Swiss efficiency with our premium bundle eKnife that is launched today: get three Swiss web services upgraded at the price of one! The promotion is available at www.eknife.ch for 59 CHF/44 € through December, and gives the users access to Premium Doodle, a premium Memonic account, and 10 GB of online storage on Wuala for one year.

A big thank you goes to the three top Swiss bloggers  @leumund, @bloggingtom and @michelrossier who were involved when the idea of a Swiss premium bundle was triggered by a conversation on Twitter.

Read more in our press release!

Jam has teamed up with Warner Brothers and Sex and the City 2 to bring the best out of Doodle, the online scheduling service, for fans to organise their night out at the cinema.

Plan your SATC-night out with your friends in the UK!

Read the full press release!

Our research has shown that business professionals spend almost five hours per week scheduling meetings. Administrative professionals are usually on the front lines of this activity, and on this day, we reflect on how far we’ve come in helping these individuals save previous time while scheduling, but we also think about the future and how we can continue to improve online scheduling.

If you’re an administrative professional who hasn’t used our tool, we encourage you to give Doodle a try and consider using Branded Doodle so that Doodle can become a seamless part of your business.

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank all administrative professionals for the work that they do!

LeWeb brings together the best and the brightest people of the web industry from attendees to speakers. It is the #1 European Internet event with 1800 participant from 30 countries and takes place in Paris on Dec 9-10 2009. More info on http://www.leweb.net

Special: Use promo code DOODLE to get 10% discount on http://www.leweb.net/register.

• Extended calendar integration: You were already able to subscribe to the Doodle ICS feed to keep your calendar up-to-date with the latest Doodle information. Starting today, you can also import your calendar information into your MyDoodle account and have Doodle suggest your availabilities based on your calendar whenever you need to fill in a poll. This feature requires you to open a MyDoodle account; afterwards, you will be able to add your calendar feed here.
• Locations: We introduced an optional feature that allows you to specify an event’s location. The feature is based on Google Maps internationally and on Local.ch in Switzerland.
• Improved XING app: Our Doodle XING app was launched only recently and is already among the most popular apps on XING. As a consequence, we get lots of feedback, and we take it seriously by introducing the following improvements: 1) Users can now merge their XING Doodle account with their normal Doodle account and see the combined dashboard in both worlds. 2) Poll participants can easily be found and invited using the new contact search with auto-completion. 3) Additional participants can be invited even after a poll has been set up. To the Doodle XING app…
• More payment methods: We’ve incorporated Moneybookers and are now able to offer many additional and more convenient payment options to our Branded Doodle customers who want to use Doodle for their business, e.g. many credit cards, bank transfer, etc.

Doodle is launch partner of the new XING Partner Ecosystem. Being a social network, XING enables a number of interesting functions: XING members can recognize Doodle polls they have in common with others, they see the profile picture when someone participates in a poll, and they can invite XING contacts to a meeting with just one click. Starting today, Doodle can be easily installed as a XING application.