[WEB4LIB] RE: :CueCat -- any progress??

[Dan Lester]

Tuesday, November 28, 2000, 7:18:52 AM, you wrote:

e> CNET had an intresting article on the Cuecat and user privacy at

e> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2826868.html?tag=st.ne.1002.tgif.ni

Business 2.0 had a piece on it when it first came out a couple months
ago:

http://www.business2.com/content/insights/opinion/2000/09/18/18935

However, the 11/15/00 hard copy issue (p.286, and apparently not on
web) has a piece called "Mis-CueCat" that says things such as:

"Digital:Convergence may have shot itself in the foot when it
unleashed this dud."

"it takes the patience of a monk to install and register"

Then describes how half the time it doesn't find anything anyway, and
concludes saying:

"Beta periods for testing and usability are designed precisely to
avoid miserable disasters like these.  Someone at Digital:Convergence
was cat napping through the focus group meetings."

Of course one might speculate that they're doing the same "public beta
testing" that a number of software companies do by releasing "new
version X.0" and letting us test it until they fix the bugs and
release X.1.

cheers

dan

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