30 Boxes - the killer Calendering app?
Thomas Hawk does a great review of the new calendering app which 83 Degrees is lauching on tomorrow (Sunday) called 30 BOXES. It sounds like it has a lot of the features Des and I have been asking for (ie sharing free/busy times) but it doesn’t sound like it yet has the other features I want - synchronization with my PDA calendar, integration to Skype, multiple timezones, etc. However, Hawk says they are exposing the API, so perhaps someone out there will build an add-on to fulfil my fantasies of the perfect woman… er calendering application.
And thanks to Gail Watt for pointing me to Hawk’s post.





February 4th, 2006 at 7:36 am
Hi Cam,
I just cae across 30 Boxes yesterday too and eagerly await the release.
In a related theme, I also discovered Web 2.0 home pages (yes I’m late to the scene) eg Netvibes, Google IG, Windows live and they are great.
With the recent relelase of Opera Mobile Browser supporting Ajax, maybe I should crossgrade my PDA phone to a standard 3G phone (no great windows mobile 3G phones yet!). That combo would allow apps such as basecamp etc to ’synchronise’ from desktop to PDA to anywhere!
Cheers,
David
February 8th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
Hi Guys,
Maybe I’m immagining this here but of the several posts I’ve made here, about two were negative comments on software you’re noted - however those posts at first appeared and then dissapearred, making we wonder if they were moderated out?
Anyhow, maybe it was just a glitch. In that case I just wanted to say that I checked out 30 boes and was unimpressed. We’ve seen iit all before and it lacks many basic features. Still a way to go in this domain.
Personally I won’t commit fully to any PIM service until it covers all my needs. Not very productive to sign up to one service for calendar, another for project management/tasks, another for email - what a time waster - just loggin in to all the seperate services!!! I want all my PIMS/dashboard accesible and useable via one login aka Netvibes or Windows Live.
Cheers
February 8th, 2006 at 1:44 pm
Hey David, not moderated out by me! Any chance you can remember what posts they were and when? I’ll look into it dude!
February 9th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
Hi Cam,
One was a post on about the 6th Feb saying something similar to paragraph 2 in my comment above.
Thanks.