Calendar Hub is a brilliant piece of Web Office Technology. What makes it so important isn’t actually it’s core functionality. The online calendar tool is cool. However, what makes it really cool is it’s Badge technology.

This is another AJAX moment folks. The people who make Calendar Hub are called BlueWire.

They have invented something that, I thin will be more important that AJAX in defining the true capabilities of Web Office / Web 2.0 and the amazing degree of empowerment it will bring to knowledge workers.

Badges are a magic combination of simple web authoring tools, such as a blog, or a Wiki, Ruby on Rails at the back end, and Javascript.

With Calendar Hub, you make your calendar entries, and then cut & paste some Javascript into your blog or wiki post. Suddenly, you have a dynamic little web application built into your page.

Calendars, interactive lists, polls, budgets, stock data. The list is endless. And as far as I know, you saw it at Calendar Hub first.

Many thanks to Ismael Ghalimi for pointing this one out.