| URL | http://www.30boxes.com/ |
|---|---|
| Type of site | Calendar |
| Registration | Required |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Owner | 83 Degrees |
| Created by | Narendra Rocherolle Nick Wilder Julie Davidson |
| Launched | February 6, 2006[1] |
| Alexa rank | 41,145 |
| Current status | Online |
30 Boxes is a calendar web application.
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The website was founded on August 1, 2005.[1]
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]
Barry Collins of The Sunday Times appreciated the website's plain-language event adding feature, but did not appreciate 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]