Mac developer Dan Wood knows what happens when Apple Computer has the same idea he does.
A couple of years back, his small firm, Karelia Software, released a set of consumer Web services known as Watson. Some months later, Apple added a very similar set of utilities under the Sherlock 3 moniker. Now Wood is worried that history is about to repeat itself--or, as he puts it, that lightning is going to strike twice.
Karelia has been working on a program called Sandvox, a set of tools designed it to make it easier for people to publish their own rich Web site with photos, audio and other features typically not found on personal Web sites. "For years, Macintosh users have been clamoring for an easy, elegant way to get their content--photo albums, Web logs, just basic sites--published on the Web," Wood said in a statement. "We created Sandvox because there were no other applications that 'got it.'"
News source: C|Net News.com
A couple of years back, his small firm, Karelia Software, released a set of consumer Web services known as Watson. Some months later, Apple added a very similar set of utilities under the Sherlock 3 moniker. Now Wood is worried that history is about to repeat itself--or, as he puts it, that lightning is going to strike twice.
Karelia has been working on a program called Sandvox, a set of tools designed it to make it easier for people to publish their own rich Web site with photos, audio and other features typically not found on personal Web sites. "For years, Macintosh users have been clamoring for an easy, elegant way to get their content--photo albums, Web logs, just basic sites--published on the Web," Wood said in a statement. "We created Sandvox because there were no other applications that 'got it.'"
News source: C|Net News.com
Not to mention countless services online that do this for free or for a cost. Most of them are really easy to use. I'm not sure what this company is going to improve upon. Seems like this "technology" has been in the hands of users for years now.
As for Apple stealing the "concept" (if you can call it that) and implimenting it directly in the OS, this is expected. Windows XP implimentation of the .zip format has all but killed WinZIP. I use to see WinZIP installed everywhere, now the software is not neccessary.
"For years, Macintosh users have been clamoring for an easy, elegant way to get their content--photo albums, Web logs, just basic sites--published on the Web," Wood said in a statement. "We created Sandvox because there were no other applications that 'got it.'"
Doesn't quite make sense given that the product below has been out for quite a long time now and it already does photo albums, web logs and basic sites...
http://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/
I know all my friends (Who enjoy making free webs pages) would absolutly _LOVE_ iWeb.
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