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Flash Buddy Cards from 30 Boxes = Bling!

May 17th, 2007 by Narendra

Now more than ever, what you do online equals who you are. At 30 Boxes, we are making this identity aggregation and lifestreaming easy and fun. A while ago we previewed our Buddy Cards concept with a slick WordPress plugin and today we are announcing the release of Flash Buddy Cards.
Think of them […]

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Lifestreaming with 30 Boxes

April 24th, 2007 by Narendra

We’ve been heavy into social identity since day one and have recently started putting out more visualizations and tools that are both fun and useful. Here is a quick roundup.

One of the most addictive parts of 30 Boxes is the Buddy Updates button (top left corner) that gives you a window into the most […]

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Power Twitter by 30 Boxes

April 9th, 2007 by Narendra

We have just finished version 0.83 of Power Twitter, a plugin for Firefox web browser that greatly enhances twitter.
Twitter pages now include:

Photo sharing with embedded flickr photos
Video sharing with embedded youtube videos
Shared tinyurls are unwound so you know where they link to
All links are mapped to their web page titles
Additional user information is mapped to […]

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Smart Messaging with 30 Boxes Supermail

January 25th, 2007 by Narendra

We talked about this a while ago and I am proud to announce PHASE 1 of Supermail. Here’s the scoop and the highlights!
This is NOT an new email client!
It is an intelligent messaging service designed for sharing.

Supermail handles a lot of internal messaging (event updates and other notifications) but the good stuff is build […]

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30B Real-Time Status and Development Updates via Twitter

January 22nd, 2007 by Narendra

Our blog and forum have been invaluable tools. We have just added another: a “corporate” twitter page. It is a brand spanking new implementation of the latest trend in two-way communication with users.
We are hoping that is helps us:

keep those people who are interested literally in the development loop
provide an offsite status location […]

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30 Boxes Blog Timeline

December 4th, 2006 by Narendra

We just put the finishing touches on a great new WordPress plugin. It allows users to scroll through the entire history of your blog with a slick embedded ajax calendar. You can install it in 60 seconds and it has some nice customization, including the ability to overlay other stuff (like flickr photos). […]

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30 Boxes Does Mashups / Widgets

November 13th, 2006 by Narendra

A while back we proclaimed we would make 30 Boxes even more open. We are making good on that with today’s release of 30 Boxed! What is it? A way to mash together all sorts of date based information onto a 30 Boxes calendar/timeline.

The kicker is, you do NOT need to be […]

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Embed/Share Your 30 Boxes

November 10th, 2006 by Narendra

This is the first part of a some very nice enhancements we have recently completed. We’ll do part two tomorrow. For those of you who don’t play around in the settings area, we snuck in a BIG change. Under any Calendar View available in Sharing, you now have links to Calendar and […]

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Your Calendar Can Talk - Robocal

November 8th, 2006 by Narendra

We have been a bit remiss in promoting some of the projects that our third party developers have been working on.  We haven’t even ever posted about Zach’s most excellent Firefox plugin which has been out for ages.  Our plan is to get a developer wiki going soon and be more diligent.
Ted Gilchrist has put […]

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30 Boxes Buddy Cards

October 6th, 2006 by Narendra

In conjunction with our social reputation system, we have put out the first application that extends the 30 Boxes social network outside of 30 Boxes. It is called Buddy Cards and is currently in beta for WordPress blogging software.You can try it out by posting a comment on my blog at No Soap Radio! […]


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