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Web 2.0 Calendar Apps

February 8, 2006 at 7:21 pm | In online applications | 4 Comments

I enjoy evaluating new Web 2.0 apps. I do this for my own personal use rather than in any professional capacity.

2 sites that I’ve spent some time looking at recently are SpongeCell and 30 Boxes. Both are calendar apps and both include “socialing” features. Both also have a cool parsing engine that turns plain text to calendar entries, like “Party at Andrew’s friday 7-9pm”. SpongeCell has the added feature of e-mailing entries to your calendar. I really like this feature because I travel a lot and don’t have internet access 100% of the time. I can enter a calendar entry in an email message on my Treo while on a plane, and it will get added to my calendar when I land and connect again.

I also have the added complexity of keeping my personal calendar on my Mac and my business calendar on my Windoze machine. Airset provides a “sync” function that I use to keep my personal and business calendars in sync.

My only complaint about SpongeCell at this point is the defaults used for entries. I would like to have reminders set automagically 15 minutes in advance of all appointments sent to my cell. Right now, after I make an entry, I have to edit it to set the reminder and the security level (to public to iCal can pick it up). OK, I do have one more complaint, there is no timezone support in the iCal .ICS file. So iCal gets confused on what timezone the appoinments are and the sync to my Treo alarms me 5 hours in advance of any entry.

30 Boxes has promise. It has a nice Ajax interface, as does Airset and SpongeCell. It also has a natural language entry like SpongeCell. What lacks is the offline entry ability (via email).

I think all of these services do what they do well and will improve with user feedback over time.

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so which one are you actually using?

i’m also looking for a calendar that’s online

Comment by yy — March 28, 2006 #

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I’m using 30Boxes pretty heavily now. There’s a Firefox extension that lets you add a calendar item using the Search box in the upper right corner of any Firefox window.

I have a little wish list for 30Boxes: Timezone support in iCal feed; Profile default setting for event notification

Comment by dentthiscarrot — March 29, 2006 #

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Comment by Damon — December 19, 2006 #

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