30 Boxes – super online calendar
I’ve been playing with “30 Boxes”:http://www.30boxes.com lately. It’s an online calendar application that is really, really slick. I’ve used Yahoo Calendar and a few other online calendars before, but 30 Boxes completely blows them away. Here’s a quick review.
My biggest problem with other online calendars was that they were slow. Even if you had a fast internet connection, you had to fill in your event details into a form, set the date, repeat, look through your address book if you want to invite someone blah blah blah.. and it becomes such a chore.
30 Boxes gets around most of that because it’s super fast once everything is loaded, thanks to some AJAX magic. Best of all, entering event details is a breeze. It has a ‘one box’ at the top of the page that you use to add events in a human understandable syntax.
Here are some examples:
*Justin’s birthday feb 21 6pm (Bring pot luck)*
Easy right? The part in the brackets will turn into a note
*WIP meeting monday 11am repeat weekly tag work*
Set repeats easily and even tag your events
*Valentine’s Day hot date 2/14 6pm +yourdate@gmail.com*
Sends an invite to yourdate@gmail.com for a hot date next Tuesday.
The other cool thing about 30 Boxes is it’s social networking functionality. Friends, or ‘buddies’, you’ve invited can view your calendar or vice versa based on your privacy settings. You can even allow certain buddies to add events to your calendar. You can even integrate your Flickr photos and blog posts into the calendar. Check out “my buddy page”:http://30boxes.com/buddy.php?id=11656!
I’ve really got to get back to work (I’m paid to work after all hehe) but here’s a link to “a more detailed review by Thomas Hawk”:http://thomashawk.com/2006/02/30-boxes-best-calender-ever.html. Also, the whole blogosphere is abuzz with 30 Boxes, so just check out the “30 Boxes tag”:http://http://technorati.com/tag/30+Boxes on Technorati.
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February 12th, 2006 at 9:31 am
Though I had to use Outlook at work, I too started out with Yahoo as my first web-calendar. It was … ok. It wasn’t until I came across Planzo.com’s AJAX calendar that I began to realize the importance of such calendars. Unfortunately, with Planzo, there hasn’t been any support or bug fixes or communication from the development team in four months. Because I fear that it has a limit life now and because it is not quite there in terms of functions, I’ve been looking at what is out there.
http://www.tipmonkies.com/2005/09/23/web-based-calendar-roundup
So far, I have found Airset.com’s version to a full featured tool: ability to sync to Outlook and Yahoo’s calendar and address book, ability to keep a blog, track web sites, creates lists, make multiple calendars to organize events, link calendars and events with others, etc.
I will take look at 30 boxes and report back, ok?
February 12th, 2006 at 7:34 pm
Hi Ron, thanks for stopping by. I’ve not tried out the other calendars other than CalendarHub. I found it not much different from Yahoo! Calendar. On the other hand, I’m loving 30 Boxes. How have you found it?
Also, just curious, how did you stumble upon my blog? Would love to know for some insight into my readers. Thanks!
December 10th, 2007 at 12:11 am
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