Sampa Beta Builds Sites

Former Microsoft employee Marcelo Calbucci wants you to have a website. And he'd like it very much if you use his new product, called Sampa, to build it. Although it denies simple classification, Calbucci speaks of Sampa as a "blog on steroids." It's for home or business use. Available now in early beta form, Sampa is also described as "the easiest and most powerful way to create a website for your business, family or group." It is intended to act as a platform for a variety of user-created applications, including blogs, newsgroups, pages, photo albums, and family trees. Sampa is being marketed as an intuitive, easy-to-learn tool - "even without using Sampa you are already familiar with it" - but The beta is available as a free download; the pricing structure for the finished product is not yet listed on the Sampa site. The release date is also not to be found, but portions of the site are running Sampa, which should give some indication of its fit and finish. The requirements to run the product are minimal. The Sampa site boasts it requires "no programming," describes it as "comprehensive," and speaks of "easy editors." In more concrete terms, it will offer a private administrative panel and site configuration. And on the more technical side of things, it has "Tags, Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Technorati: Doug is a staff writer for Murdok for the latest eBusiness news.