No comments on the Google situation but a few on the idea itself... 1. Facebook reminds me of people's birthday already via its site as well as email reminders

No comments on the Google situation but a few on the idea itself... 1. Facebook reminds me of people's birthday already via its site as well as email reminders. 2. Google Calendar allows alerts of said events (so does iCal). This also integrates with my Google Contacts already. 3. Integrated apps like EasilyDo and many others also display these reminders if needed I believe. I'm not sure I understand the value proposition of paying for something like this, particularly if I have to manually punch all those birthdays in when there are so many free solutions all over the place.