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New Authoring Tool, New Kind of Document: Night Kitchen’s tk3
Remember Voyager? Remember all those gorgeous CD-ROM titles? Whatever happened to those people? Well, here’s what happened to some of them. For the last few years, Bob Stein has been gathering a team (at a company called Night Kitchen) and working on a tool (called tk3) that’s aimed at giving us all the power to create and share beautiful, usable hypermedia documents. We’ve been tinkering with the beta, watching it improve from early, awkward stages. Release 1 just came out, and you can get in on a free 3-month trial of the authoring tool. Check out www.nightkitchen.com. We haven’t used it enough to have a good feel for how significant this will turn out to be. Some may be skeptical about the success of something that feels so… well, so much like itself and so unlike other things. But we offer big applause for the effort. It’s one of the few attempts we’re aware of at helping authors create pleasurable reading experiences. Much luck and a tip o’ the hat to the folks at Night Kitchen.
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