It's an odd title, but 30 Boxes is one of the neatest web apps I've seen for a while. It's basically just an online calendar, with Ajax up the wazoo, and that oh-so-trendy Apple shade of grey. Play with it for a while though, and you can tell it's had some thought put into it.
You can add "buddies" to your calendar, and allow them to see items in your calendar that aren't marked as private. I can already see a use for this, because I can enter all my upcoming gigs (watching, not performing) in there, and all those lucky people who are coming along can see when they are. You can also store private appointments, so those personal little things aren't broadcast across the web.
Something I'm sure an awful lot of bloggers will use is the "share my calender" type functionality. This allows you to drop a block of html on your site, and it will scrape the next few entries from 30Boxes and display them for the world to see. I just know this is going to be a popular feature.
The site is quick, elegantly designed, and isn't terribly clunky. It's actually quite minimalist; it doesn't throw hundreds of garish buttons at you, and hope you click the right one.
The only thing I think I need to do to make this a perfect solution is to find some way of syncing it with my desktop calendar (which is Outlook at work, and doesn't exist at home). The ideal would be to enter things either on my phone or 30Boxes, and have the middleman (Outlook) sync them up. Wouldn't Activesync plugins be nice?
