30 Boxes“it’s your life”

By: Mandi Dupiriak

Objectives

• Understand what 30 Boxes is all about

• Use this application easily at home or own

your own.

History

• Developed by 83degrees, a California

based company, in Febuary of 2006.

• The founders of 83degrees are Narendra

Rocherolle, Nick Wilder and Julie

Davidson who were prior founders and

made up the management team of

Webshots

What is 30 Boxes?

• “critically acclaimed calendar, natural language entry, ajax, full screen, blazing fast, invitations, sms reminders, repeating events, integrated maps, tagging, share by tags, customizable, multiple themes, simple sharing, weather, track myspace, flickr, webshots, livejournal, blogger and more, instant photo sharing, your calendar is a timeline, add rss + ical feeds, all data is exportable, calendar badges + widgets, instant home page, track your buddies, custom webtop/start page, reliable messaging, tracked link sharing, the best to do list ever, perfect for GTD, buddy cards, great for your contact list, sms messaging built in, available on your phone, status updates, better than paper!”

Who is using?

• College Students

• Business People– Work in office, travel

• Teachers

• 80,000 users in ’07

• 30,000 unique sessions per day

Socialize

• Allows you to send invitations to anyone

you would like to become your “buddy”

• Your settings can then be set to private,

public, or a mix between both.

Web 2.0

• Power Twitter– What are you doing now?

• Blogs

• Flickr– Upload and share your photos or get some from

friends

• YouTube videos

Above and Beyond

•When entering the

place of your

destination, a URL

is given that leads

you to Google

Maps with

directions ready

Fast and Efficient

• Simple type allows you to tell the calendar

what to do

– i.e Lunch Meeting repeat Monday

• Single day print out

– Not available offline, but can print out daily

schedule as needed

Reminders• Integrates with e-mail and SMS

• Messages and sent directly to you 24 hours

before the event

• You can schedule from your phone and send it

to 30Boxes

• Your Buddies also receive messages

reminding them

• Personal confirmation for each buddy

event

Classroom Uses

• Class calendar

• Creates classroom community

• Allows for growth of technology

• Prevent students from forgetting

• Parents can have one also

• Paper Planner

30Boxes vs. Google Calendar

• Themes

– google needs help from Greasemonkey on

Firefox

• Social network

– photos, blogs, twitter

• Gcal all about the focus of calendar