Why is there no good implementation of this? It seems like something tons of people would want to do yet there are no plugins available to get the job done.

Here is what I’ve found:

• WoogleCal is basically a tool that reads google rss feeds and sorts them by date (because apparently google is too stupid to do this) and shows only events in the future (again, google come on).
• Google Calendar Widget is a widget that isn’t actually compatible with wordpress and requires modification of the default wordpress files to work. It is also a widget which doesn’t necessarily fit my needs.
• Alan Gutierrez describes what seems like an elegant solution but, there is no work being done on it from what I can tell.
• Finally, you can use the google provided html to embed a calendar. This is a somewhat clunky solution though

Sigh, if only I had some time on my hands to do some mashing. I’m going to experiment with the above options to try to get something that will fit my needs for a project that I’m working on.