Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has announced offline access to Gmail, Calendar, and Docs through its HTML5 Chrome web application. ‘

While Facebook does a great job promoting events, the social network does not have a stand-alone calendar management service like Google does. Fortunately, you can easily export events from Facebook to your Google Calendar. In this blog post, we will look at two ways to export Facebook events to your Google Calendar, one in the form of copying and pasting a URL and the other by downloading a Google Chrome browser extension.

Google Software Engineering Intern Karol Stosiek wrote about a new feature that has been added to Google Calendar. As meetings tend to have vary in importance for attendees, Google Calendar now has an “Optional attendees” feature. When setting up an Event on Google Calendar through Gmail, click on “Make some attendees optional” and you can start adding names/e-mail addresses. Before creating the event, you will need to toggle the role of each attendee by clicking the icon next to their name (note the screenshot above has a person icon that is not filling in black). [Gmail Blog]