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*30 Boxes*

URL	http://www.30boxes.com/
Type of site	Calendar
Registration	Required
Available language(s)	English
Owner	83 Degrees
Created by	83 Degrees
Launched	August 1, 2005^[1]
Alexa rank	41,145
Current status	Online

30 Boxes is a calendar web application.

1 History
2 Features
3 Reception
4 References
5 External links

History

The website was founded on August 1, 2005.^[1]

Features

The website supports drag-and-drop capabilities, one-click editing, plain-language event adding, as well as unique features aimed towards social networkers. Calendars can contain feeds from Twitter, Blogger, MySpace, Facebook, WordPress, Vox, and Upcoming.org, which generates a social timeline listing all of a user's recent online activity. Users can also import and export data as ics or csv files, or as an RSS feed.^[2] The website includes a plain-language event adding feature, which allows users to type phrases such as “Drinks with Richard, tomorrow, 7-9pm, Flute and Whistle”.^[3] The website then translates the phrase into an event, determining the location, time, date, and description.^[3] Users can add buddies and share calendars with them. 30 Boxes features a simple webtop, which summarizes daily appointments and to-do items. Users can also add applets to the page, such as Google search, Yahoo! Mail, and Google Calendar, a competing online calendar service. 30 Boxes also offers a mobile version of their calendar.^[4]

Reception

Barry Collins of The Sunday Times appreciated the website's plain-language event adding feature, but he was turned off by the website's plain design, calling it "ugly and basic", and he was disappointed that he was unable to see more than one month of events at a time. Collins was also unhappy that the website was not capable of warning him when he had two events scheduled at the same time.^[3] In a list of the best web-based calendar software for small businesses, Forbes ranked 30 Boxes second, after Google Calendar. They described 30 Boxes like "buying a new car with manual transmission and lots of extras--you don't just want to drive it, you want to fool around with it to see what it can do".^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "30Boxes". CrunchBase. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/30boxes. Retrieved 2009-08-17.
^ Calore, Michael (2007-02-20). "The Web's Best Calendars". Wired. http://www.wired.com/software/softwarereviews/news/2007/02/72750. Retrieved 2009-08-17.
^ ^a ^b ^c Collins, Barry (2006-07-02). "Talking point: At last! I’ve found an online diary that doesn’t double-book me". The Sunday Times. London. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article681840.ece. Retrieved 2009-08-17.
^ ^a ^b "The Best Web-Based Computer Applications For Small Business". Forbes. 2006-09-07. http://www.forbes.com/2006/09/07/web-based-resources-cx_bn_0907smallbizresource_2.html. Retrieved 2009-08-17.

External links

Official website

Categories: Free calendaring software

30 Boxes is an Ajax-based online personal organizer with strong social aspects. The service was developed by 83°. It consists of several applications including a critically acclaimed calendar, to do lists, identity aggregation, event mapper, people search, and webtop that is currently provided free-of-charge to users. Several syndication options are offered including iCal subscriptions, webpages and RSS feeds. The service launched on Sunday 5 February 2006.

Innovations

Complex events and invitations are handled with a sophisticated natural language parsing engine that allows event creation via their One Box

30 Boxes uses tags as a way of segmenting data for sharing. Users have the option of sharing their entire calendar or sectioning off and sharing only events with a certain tag.

Users and their buddies are comprised not only of calendar related events but all variety of metadata

30 Boxes makes use of an open wikipedia style system to generate rich profiles that are keyed on email addresses. This allows for rapid personalization and shared profiles

A design layer that allows for "remote skinning" of the calendar application. Users can design, create and host their own "theme" on a web server of a local computer.

A webtop implementation that blends external web applications with in-house apps

Integration Points

Flickr rss feeds, photos, profile data

Webshots rss feeds, photos, profile data

Upcoming.org rss feeds, event information

LiveJournal rss feeds, profile data

MySpace rss feeds, syndication

User Base

30 Boxes has a very strong community with many active users in the forums discussing and solving issues. The makers of 30 Boxes are also very active in the forums, making 30 Boxes a huge competitor of Google Calendar. There are a few users who are consistently making themes, extensions, and fixes, notably Hillary Hartley and Zach Allia.