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30 Boxes and Tag Sharing/SyndicationFebruary 15th, 2006 by Narendra |
The idea seemed innocent enough: let people establish sharing relationships based on the way they tag events. It was only when we started to show the system to others that we started to understand that it might be something powerful.
We have completed the syndication piece of this and are very excited.
Here is a brief overview:
When you join 30 Boxes and start creating a calendar, it is inherently private. You choose how and when you want to share events. Here are some classic cases:
- You create an event and invite someone (e.g. dinner Friday +joe@gmail.com) creates a shared invitation for the user with the email joe@gmail.com
- You add a buddy and choose to share your calendar with that person. You have the choice to share “everything except events marked private” or any “events that have any of the following tags” where you can designate specific tags (e.g. running in the park tag sports).
- You share upcoming events on your blog with an HTML badge. Under the My Settings > Sharing, you can find additional ways of sharing/syndicating outside of 30 Boxes. You can choose and create “Views” that include Entire (includes private events), Shared (excludes private events), and Custom (designated by tags). You can then paste the HTML into your blog and it keeps an updated display of events in the View you selected.
- You want to publish a calendar for everyone to see. Again, in the syndication section, you can simply choose or create a View and promote the URL for the “Public Web Page” associated with that View.
Syndication has other advantages. Your iCal feed is handy if you want to subscribe to your calendar (or part of it) with Apple iCalendar or using the RemoteCalendars plugin for Outlook. You can add also View of your calendar to any RSS reader including My Yahoo!
Find the system that works best for you!
We think this stuff is pretty cool and encourage you to tell your friends or shout out on your blog :-)
30 Boxes!
February 15th, 2006 at 5:54 pm
You guys rock! The syndication based on tag is the feature that I needed to make this program work for me and you added it super quickly!
Thanks so much!
Are there plans to add a publish to 30b at some point as well? For example, I would subscribe to my 30b feed from Mozilla Calendar, but then maybe make some changes locally and publish my changed calendar to 30b?
thanks again for rocking the party so hard.
February 16th, 2006 at 11:53 am
Actually Mike I was looking fwd to the RSS with tags feature as well… unfortunately it’s not coming through google home (even after making private events, public).
Anyone been able to successfully consume an RSS feed of only tagged events?
February 16th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
I just thought I’d mention in here that everyone (particularly people who have a decent understanding of HTML) should check out protopage.com — which has some excellent features for working as an RSS feed aggregator. I even managed to code an entry field for 30boxes onto my site, so I can add events from their page and then it’ll show up in the calendar feed.
February 18th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
I love that I can now share my upcoming events via the public page; is there any possibility, however, of sharing it in a lovely calendar form, complete with remote-linked theme?
Other than that, I’ve found this more useful than I imagined–from synching up dancing nights to keeping tabs on the significant other!
February 19th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
(just wanted everyone who checks this to know that tagged feeds are now working fine… Thanks Nick)
February 19th, 2006 at 8:12 pm
Fantastic additions with the RSS feeds. The custom piece is incredibly powerful and very useful. I am using my calendar with buddies and am also pulling in different RSS feeds to different “pages” on Protopage. Protopage is my default homepage with my organizing info, and it is great to have my (and my friends’) calendars pulled right in. Keep up the great work.
One buddy feature I would like to see. Say your buddy has an event on their calendar, but they haven’t invited you, but you plan to go. There should be a way to make the event show as an event you are attending (i.e. bold on your calendar instead of only showing up a a shared buddy event)
February 23rd, 2006 at 11:19 am
I don’t know if anyone else is having this problem but I am using the remote calendar plugin for outlook but I only get the one event appear and not any of the others that I made does anyone else have this problem?