30 Boxes

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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.^[1]

Contents 1 Innovations 2 Integration Points 3 See also 4 External links 5 References

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

• Google Calendar
• Kiko
• Cozi Central

[edit] External links

• 30 Boxes Homepage
• 30 Boxes Blog
• Upcoming Features
• Firefox Extension

[edit] References

1. ↑  Guardian Technology Blog
2. ↑  NY Times Article