- Posted by SondreB on January 5, 2010
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During the winter I’ve been working on a new project called Boks. Boks is a rich interactive application that helps you organize all your stuff. Stuff such as books, movies, games and more.
Boks runs entirely in the cloud, that means all your stuff is stored online and there is never any need for downloads or installations. Just hit the website with your browser to access and manage your items. One feature I’m particularly proud about is how Boks will be accessible to anonymous (unregistered) users, so anyone can test it and understand how it works, before filling out out a very simple registration.
While you manage everything using an Silverlight 4 app, your content will be available as a webpage as well. This makes it easy for you to check what content you have, from any device, even from your mobile.
If you like to read a lot of books, listen to music or watch movies, you’ve probably already experience buying an item twice. Boks will help you avoid duplicate purchases and it will help you plan your wish-list for what you want to buy.
Boks is currently under development and beta testers will gain access in the first quarter of 2010. If you want to sign up, please send an short e-mail to beta-at-intheboks.com and you will be notified when you can register.
Developing Boks has had the focus in using the latest technologies and techniques that Microsoft advocates. Windows Azure, SQL Azure, Silverlight 4, Entity Framework, Blend, Visual Studio 2010 and a lot is used in the production of Boks.
Boks is an interesting product and service, so I’ve written a presentation about it, which I’m hoping to do at the MIX10 conference.
Please vote for my session submission to MIX10 before January 15th. (make sure you submit your ballot after you’ve added the Boks session to it)
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Here is some early screenshots and a video, that demonstrates Boks in action on how it will work. Please beware that these screenshots are only from the protoype and the design will change dramatically in the coming weeks. Please visit our website for more information, http://www.intheboks.com/.
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