Friday, November 04, 2005

Oh, woe , thrice woe

I just downloaded and installed verosee - a new and potentially useful skype plugin that might offer similar functionality to groove, but using skype as a transport. three woes to think about before you use it.

1. download no 1 at 36 megs. immediately followed by
2. download no 2 at 60 megs.
and then before you even get to see whether the product is at all useful you have to incur
3. subscription at various amounts of $ per month.

Remember this is for a beta product. I object to being charged to support projects at this stage, and I suspect the world at large will do the same. To underline the beta status, the product uses little of standard Windows controls & design. Therefore expect a learning curve for all.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Running a PopG workspace on an applet, and hosting files on their server, is intrinsically insecure as it requires trusting PopG. This completly defeats the benefit of Groove´s security model: www.groove.net/pdf/security.pdf

3:25 am  
Blogger Pablo Bertorello said...

Andy, thanks for your feedback. Verosee's download size is now 80% smaller.

2:26 am  

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