Syncing ical's on different owners computers

I have a business partner who lives in another city in the United States. I would like for us to be able to make individual entries into a calendar on our own personal computer (we both have new macbooks) and then have it sync to each other's personal computers without having to upload to a calendar or do anything else?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Charlie

Penthias,
I know you don't want to upload to another calendar but here is what I do, well between my computer and my Ipod Touch. Make a Google account that you and your business partner can share. (Same Login, Same Password) https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com% 2F&hl=en
Download, install, and launch http://code.google.com/p/calaboration/downloads/list it will setup the caldav on both of your macs and then any and all changes made in the google calendar in iCal will sync between both computers.
Also note you can set up multiple calendars on google and use one for your bp and one for you, that way they can be different colors and if you wanted to you could uncheck your bp and look just at yours.
Now I don't use these but you could use spanningsync http://spanningsync.com/ or busymac http://www.busymac.com/ they do the sync thing for ical and I believe spanningsync also syncs your contacts.
Hope that helps,
Weston

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