I saw a phrase on a shirt today while I was grappling at the Jiu Jitsu dojo I go to… it said:

“Pain is weakness leaving the body”

I think the shirt was an advertisement for the marines or some armed forces division.

It got me thinking that the sqeeze everyone is feeling because of the poor economy is just our excess, pride and overspending leaving our system (or at least it should be). A little pain every once in a while is not necessarily a bad thing, so long as we react properly to it and make adjustments to not have that pain.

Late last night during an email exchange with one of our saavy users, it was suggested that we provide an iCal feed of CalendarBudget data. iCal is a calendaring format which can be consumed by calendar programs such as those on mobile devices and other calendaring software.

This could be a way for us to easily get onto mobile devices before we planned to. It also addresses some previous requests to combine regular calendaring items and financial information.

Imagine it – you are looking at your calendar events for the day and you also see your balance (as an “All Day” activity) and transactions that occur that day as timed entries (perhaps timed for 11:59pm so they are last on your list. It could be really convenient.

I’d love to hear some feedback on the idea and how it may be used.

On April 28th I attended Finovate Startup 09 as a Startup presenter. We presented on Moday the 27th as a pre-recorded demo, while other presented on the 28th. The demo video is being professionally edited and will be available in about a week. I`ll post it when its available.

The event was a lot of fun, we met a lot of great people, saw what the competition is doing and what our real strengths are. Surprisingly, there are only a few companies who allow for planning future finances. Most only focus on reporting on whats happened in the past. Planning for the future is clearly one of CalendarBudget`s strengths. Also, our calendar format is a clear winner when compared to the other interfaces, most of which just show transactions and planned events in a list. We did glean some ideas for future development, however, we`ll have you the users vote on what we should be doing next.

We have a little bit of clean up surrounding our subcription code to complete this week, then we`ll start posting more `whats next` ideas for you to vote on.