askSam dead?

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Sep 7, 2013 at 11:21 AM

The last time this happened was in early July. When people inquired on the list serve, this is the response from Wade Goodman:

We have not closed up shop. We’ve had a fairly major server crash but as soon as we recover we’ll release askSam 8 and share with you some future plans for askSam.
Thanks,
Wade

This happened in March, too, and the result seemed to be that they were continuing development of askSam 8—however, there has been no response yet this time around. I don’t know if Wade was whistling past the graveyard in July, lying through his teeth (or in this case, fingers on the keyboard), or if things have changed and this time it is for real. Or maybe it was the truth and he’ll get things right again soon. We’ll have to wait and see.

I always liked the IDEA of askSam, but the execution in the form of the software left a lot to be desired, in my opinion. Lots of unmet potential.

Steve Z.