Kiko Calendar Being Sold

overbored writes: Kiko Calendar, an AJAX calendar service that has been previously covered on Slashdot, is currently being auctioned on Ebay. Paul Graham is one of the partners of the Y Combinator venture firm backing Kiko, discusses the reasons behind this turn of events, citing the arrival of Google Calendar as the main reason:

While I don't think this case implies the party's over for web startups, it is significant in one respect. It seems to be the first example of Google benefiting from the Microsoft Office effect. In the 80s and 90s, Microsoft gradually killed off the competitors of its individual applications by making them tightly integrated....Google may be even more dangerous than Microsoft, because unlike Microsoft it's the favorite of technically minded users.