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 web desktop 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.

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

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

Facebook