What's next for Watson? Developer reveals plans for next version of Internet-services App. (Mac Beat).

A year ago, Dan Wood was on top of the world. The president of Karelia Software (www.karelia.com), he had a potential hit on his hands with Watson, an innovative OS X-only application. Designed as a companion to Apple's Sherlock, Watson helped users easily access a variety of Internet services; it made a splash at the January 2002 Macworld Expo, and Wood became the poster boy for Cocoa, Apple's object-oriented programming environment.

But Wood's elation turned out to be short lived. About five months after Expo. Apple announced that OS X 10.2's Sherlock would have support for ...

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