30Boxes, the web calendar that totally rocks, just keeps getting better. They just introduced a mobile version of the site, so now you can get your calendar apps right on your favorite mobile phone, something we can all appreciate when we are late for appointments or don’t have all the information handy.
But there is more than just the mobile version which improves 30Boxes. Chip Cuccio has created a very nice downloadable app – just for Macs — that opens up 30Boxes in a window as if it were a desktop application.
Chip has produced some others for gcal and netvibes and is also working on a broader platform called webkit. You can get the same result with the tiny “full webtop” link at the top of your calendar, but this app gives you an icon on your desktop and dock.
Shall be interesting to see if 30 Boxes gets mass adoption around the world. They may rock, but they still have to get market share and beat out whatever Microsoft comes up with.
Oh yea, so will Apple’s new calendar server in Leopard Server work with 30 boxes? CalDAV anyone?
Tsani,
it would be pretty cool to have 30Boxes work with the new calendar server. I have forwarded your comment to the founders and lets hope they get back with some update.
on the mass adoption, i get a feeling that even with a few 100,000 users and some of them buying premium services they could make decent money to survive and actually thrive. you know they are just three people and not much overhead.
what i am saying is that not everything has to have the scope of outlook/microsoft.
on the mass adoption, i get a feeling that even with a few 100,000 users and some of them buying premium services they could make decent money to survive and actually thrive. you know they are just three people and not much overhead.
I haven’t read it yet, but isn’t that the point of “The Long Tail,” that production efficiencies are so good now that you can survive and thrive on a niche in a way not previously possible? And isn’t this how 30boxes, 37signals, and a lot of others are indeed making it?
Cheers,
Patrick
Om said:
“on the mass adoption, i get a feeling that even with a few 100,000 users and some of them buying premium services they could make decent money to survive and actually thrive. you know they are just three people and not much overhead.”
I haven’t read it yet, but isn’t that the point of “The Long Tail,” that production efficiencies are so good now that you can survive and thrive on a niche in a way not previously possible? And isn’t this how 30boxes, 37signals, and a lot of others are indeed making it?
Cheers,
Patrick
Hi Om,
411Sync offers a mobile interface to Google, 30Boxes, Trumba and Upcoming.org calendars.
Using this, you can fetch your upcoming events/appointments from your calendar using SMS, EMAIL and WAP.
Narendra from 30Boxes mentioned this on his blog:
http://30boxes.com/blog/index.php/2006/07/07/get-your-30boxes-calendar-via-sms-with-411sync/
You can get more information on setting up your calendar on:
http://www.411sync.com/cgi-bin/calfaq
Using the SMS interface is quick and easy. After you configure your calendar settings on 411Sync, simply text “mycal” to 415-676-8397 and get back a response within 30 seconds.
Thanks
Manish