http://www.paulcowles.com/2006/03/07/etech-day-2/ on-going Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:28:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.paulcowles.com/2006/03/07/etech-day-2/comment-page-1/#comment-10 /ROOT BLOG » Root Vaults = Myware Spyware Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:58:46 +0000 http://www.paulcowles.com/2006/03/07/etech-day-2/#comment-10 [...] As you can imagine, having your company mentioned in the same sentence as spyware is something most PR agencies (or sane people) would not want to happen. Fred Wilson popularized the term myware as a way to explain Root Vaults. After Seth Goldstein’s presentation at Etech the other day, Paul Cowles explained it perfectly: Seth Goldstein unveiled the lastest skin to Root markets - possibly the only spyware I’ll install willingly ;> Think WebTrends for your personal internet usage (amongst other things). Being able to access a dashboard report indicating where I am wasting my time online would be very helpful indeed. [...] [...] As you can imagine, having your company mentioned in the same sentence as spyware is something most PR agencies (or sane people) would not want to happen. Fred Wilson popularized the term myware as a way to explain Root Vaults. After Seth Goldstein’s presentation at Etech the other day, Paul Cowles explained it perfectly: Seth Goldstein unveiled the lastest skin to Root markets – possibly the only spyware I’ll install willingly ;> Think WebTrends for your personal internet usage (amongst other things). Being able to access a dashboard report indicating where I am wasting my time online would be very helpful indeed. [...]

]]> http://www.paulcowles.com/2006/03/07/etech-day-2/comment-page-1/#comment-7 rooney Thu, 09 Mar 2006 01:58:33 +0000 http://www.paulcowles.com/2006/03/07/etech-day-2/#comment-7 sites like secondlife are nuts. it seems like it only took the information economy a few seconds to become frivolous. to think, people paying for the right to use an arrangement of 1\'s and 0\'s in a virtual world so that they appear to be wearing virtual designer jeans. sites like secondlife are nuts. it seems like it only took the information economy a few seconds to become frivolous. to think, people paying for the right to use an arrangement of 1\’s and 0\’s in a virtual world so that they appear to be wearing virtual designer jeans.

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