Sci-Fi Hi-Fi

Before I post in detail about last night’s dinner (long story short: it kicked so much ass), I just wanted to take a moment to congratulate Dan Wood and Terrence Talbot on announcing their new app, Sandvox, yesterday at WWDC. Dan demoed it almost non-stop during the dinner last night, and I think everyone was pretty impressed.

Sandvox was intriguing to me because, while at first glance it appeared to be merely a very stylish WYSIWYG HTML editor, Dan’s demo quickly made it clear that a lot of its features (Blogger-style templates and automatic RSS generation, for example) are aimed squarely at the personal publishing/weblogging space (even its name hints at the goal of giving people a voice). I was also very impressed at the lengths Dan & company have gone to to hide the complexity of web publishing from the average user, ensuring that someone like my Mom would never have to deal with FTP (but without requiring her to sign up for a specific hosting service like .Mac). I won’t go into detail about it, but suffice to say their solution to the problem seems very clever.

Also, as everyone who was present last night probably heard me say at least five times, I do have a personal interest in Sandvox, since my little brother Bobby designed its lovely app icon. Now that his work with Dan has calmed down a bit (at least for now) Bobby has finally had time to put up his own weblog, and an interesting post discussing the evolution of Sandvox’s icon.

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