BricaBox Launches - A Powerful Publishing Platform

Congratulations to my friends Nate Westheimer and Kyle Bragger, who officially launched BricaBox today. I've watched BricaBox go through a few iterations and they have done a good job of both improving the platform and incorporating feedback from users - I like that they launched with a BricaBox dedicated to suggestions and feature requests and that it's a public conversation.

BricaBox gives you tools to easily create sites that incorporate different kinds of content from diverse sources. Big deal, that's called a web page, right? The difference is that BricaBox knows about the attributes of different kinds of data and is aware of display context. In other words, if you add an address to an item BricaBox will display the address as normal in a text listing, but can also correctly display it in a map context because it understands that the address has a geospatial component. BricaBox doesn't throw away metadata.

In addition to better understanding your data, BricaBox makes creating custom apps much easier. Say you want to create a contest site around a marketing campaign where people can submit, vote, and comment on photos as well as place them on a map. Ranking should happen dynamically based on voting. The design needs to be fully custom. Users need to be able to create accounts and sign in and you need different administrative levels of permission. The deadline is in two days. This would be very difficult to pull together, even from the various widgets available around the web, but BricaBox makes this easy. That's powerful.