• Los Angeles Times, Wednesday, October 8, 2008 12 PM

As YouTube finds new ways for its users to make purchases (and for its advertisers to reach consumers), Yahoo is finding new ways to help you organize your schedule. The company this week is rolling out new features for its digital calendar feature that it hopes will lure more of its e-mail user.

Users can now add photos from their Flickr accounts, and share information with other users even if they use competing calendar apps, like those from Google or AOL. The company also says it will soon roll out features that will let users automatically track and find events they may be interested in attending.

The whole thing is an effort by Yahoo to lure more users-and to get those users to spend more time on their site--by making its e-mail service "smarter." The technology Yahoo needed to make the new calendar feature possible was acquired Zimbra.

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