Thoughts from the identity age -- By Phil Libin

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First ISLAND inhabitants

Mark has taken ISLAND, my proposed rating system for deceptive software, and measured four popular software downloads: WinZip, the Google Toolbar, Yahoo! Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger.  The results are interesting.

Looks like I’ll have to recalibrate my prediction that “a fairly clean piece of shareware would come in at 94.”  Ouch.

June 2, 2004 | Permalink

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