[Web4lib] Social calendaring application "30boxes" prepares forbeta test

[Karen Merguerian]

I've tried several online calendars in an attempt to find a substitute for 
my family's kitchen calendar, which none of us can see when we're at work 
and at school.  A "shifted" calendar!

After trying Remember the Milk, HipCal and Planzo (all reviewed in PC World 
2/2006. http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,123790,pg,2,00.asp), I 
decided to try the calendar on myYahoo, which for me turned out to be the 
best.

You can send alerts and invitations from it, or share the whole thing; you 
can create repeating events, and various views are available.

Planzo would not create repeating events successfully, and Remember the Milk 
would not show me a month-at-a-glance.  HipCal didn't do email alerts.

The tagging and social networking that seem to be the strengths of 30 Boxes 
according to the Hawks review, are less interesting to me.  Tagging is too 
much trouble (tho it could be useful for a shared workplace calendar) and 
social networking for me consists of picking up the phone.  And a fitness 
calorie chart?  It's probably better for my fitness to get up from sitting 
in front of the computer all day long, LOL!!!

There is a Yahoo Intellisync application that is supposed to sync myYahoo 
calendars with various email and organizer applications such as Outlook and 
Notes; I haven't tried it yet but if it works, that would be the killer app 
for me.  A calendar has to be portable IMHO.

Karen Merguerian
Northeastern University Libraries
Boston, MA

>From: Brian Stubbs <bstubbs at rci.rutgers.edu>
>To: Web4Lib <web4lib at webjunction.org>
>Subject: [Web4lib] Social calendaring application "30boxes" prepares 
>forbeta test
>Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:40:53 -0500
>
>Social calendaring?  The idea is to be like del.icio.us (discussed 
>previously on Web4Lib), except with calendars.  From the descriptions, it's 
>an online calendar that you tag your events with.  Use it as a planner, a 
>vacation note-taker, a fitness calorie chart.  Tag your information any way 
>you like, invite buddies to use it, and they can see the tags(events) that 
>you designate.  And, you can see the tags that your buddies let you see.
>"30 Boxes will be to calendars what GMail was to Email."  -Om Malik, writer 
>for Business 2.0
>
>Writeup here:
>http://thomashawk.com/2006/02/30-boxes-best-calender-ever.html
>
>Website here(request a beta invite):
>http://30boxes.com
>
>Hope this is useful to anyone  :)
>
>--
>Brian Stubbs
>Supervisor II, Alexander Library
>Access Services Dept, Rutgers University Libraries


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