Hypercard citia

A lot more about this app in the story in ReadWriteWeb.  Here’s the beginning:

Kevin Kelly’s book What Technology Wants was one of my favorite non-fiction books of 2011. In my April 2011 review, I gave it 5 out of 5 stars. It’s fitting that Kelly’s book is the first to be turned into an iPad app on a new iOS platform called Citia. The result isn’t an ebook though, it’s more like a condensed summary of the book’s main ideas. So is Citia just a modern day CliffsNotes, or something more substantial?

The Kevin Kelly app is now available in the App Store for $9.99 (note: unfortunately geo restrictions apply). I obtained a review copy and checked it out.

Those of you with long Internet memories will immediately see the resemblance of Citia to HyperCard, an Apple application from the late 80s and early 90s that was a precursor to the World Wide Web. Like HyperCard, Citia uses the concepts of ‘cards’ and ‘stacks’ to organize information.

Of course, Citia is much more visually appealing. Founder and CEO of Citia, Linda Holliday, demoed the app at the All Things D conference a couple of weeks ago and explained that the goal of Citia is to ‘deconstruct it [the book] on a visual axis.’

(Via ReadWriteWeb.)

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