Kiko has shut its doors, and that makes me sad. And not just because the Kiko team was headquartered in Medford, MA, my town (at least for another week). Kiko was an online “web 2.0” calendar, an interactive personal calendaring app that you can use from your web browser. The first version was pretty awful, but version 2.0, released a little before Google Calendar appeared on the scene, was really powerful and fairly awesome. Sadly it was competing with the inexplicably popular 30boxes as well as Google Calendar, which integrates nicely with Gmail and Gtalk and all the other Google properties, which really kills you if your market is the kind of person who would be using Gmail in the first place. The Kiko folks were a scrappy bunch of college kids, and I was really rooting for them to succeed, especially after my calendar project failed to get off the ground.

They got burned out, they knew that they had lost, and they are shutting their doors gracefully, which I think is a very respectable thing to do.