Congratulations to NetNewsWire and Spring!

Well, it looks like doing "beyond the browser" Web-connected applications is the hot thing this year. At the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, it was announced that NetNewsWire and Spring were the first- and second-place winners of their Mac OS X Innovators Contest.

(Envious? Yep ... but Watson was not qualifed to even enter the contest! Something about that Apple Design Award last year. But since both applications make use of the CURLHandle framework that I've made availalbe as open source, I can privately share the glory.)

As it happens, these two applications can be bought along with Watson in a discounted three-way bundle ... but only until the end of April. Here's the page with the details.

Hearty felicitations to the programs' creators, Brent Simmons and Robb Beal!

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