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]

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  • 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

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[edit] References

  1.   Guardian Technology Blog
  2.   NY Times Article