(2008-06-03) Ifbook Sophie

IFBook has released Sophie, a HyperMedia authoring/reading environment. Open Source and multi-platform. Its file format is XML. Wow, it's built with Squeak Smalltalk! Sophie is software for writing and reading rich media documents in a networked environment. Sophie's goal is to open up the world of multimedia authoring to a wide range of people and institutions and in so doing to redefine the notion of a book (EBook) or "AcademicPaper" to include both rich media and mechanisms for reader feedback and conversation (Social Media) in dynamic margins.

There are samples.

Bob Stein notes how it differs from Presentation Software.

Hmm, the contained document just smells so dead to me... isn't it all about a Thinking Space bleeding into the whole Two Way Web?