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Should hot new web services offer a public sandbox?
Steven Frank, founder of Mac software company Panic Inc., certainly thinks so, and I agree. With the slew of new web apps that are being introduced almost on a daily basis, it's becoming a pain to create a registration for each one, verify, then jump back in to finally start playing. Not to mention this process completely breaks that initial 'ooh, a slick new [insert service here]!!' excitement.I think it would be great if these hot new web 2.0 startups would offer a public, no-registration-required sandbox to further boost their convenience and cool factors, but what about you, DLS readers? Are we splitting hairs here, or might this be a good idea? Sound off.
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Jordan Running said 2:19PM on 8-05-2006
I've noticed a lot more web apps in the past 6-12 months that do exactly this. It's not a lot yet--maybe 10 or 15 I've encountered--but I think developers are beginning to recognize the value of it. As a user, finding such a site is always a breath of fresh air (and even moreso as a blogger, since I can actually try out the product I'm writing about without having to fill out yet another registration form).
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Chris said 5:33PM on 8-05-2006
Maybe they could just all embrace OpenID and it'd all be good.
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