On Thu, 11 May 2000, Craig Spooner wrote:
> I was disappointed to discover some bad press about MetaCard on the
> ZDNet site in a review of MetaCard by Esther Schindler:
> http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,389342,00.html
Hmm. I hadn't seen that one. We don't have any record of sending her
a review copy or indeed of ever having any contact from anyone at that
magazine (which I hadn't even heard of). More of a brief hatchet job
than a review, really. I particularly enjoyed the part about being
"dumped uncermoniously into the English-like scripting language", as
if that weren't the whole point of the product ;-)
> I sent her a rebuttal, but I don't imagine it will change her mind in
> any way. MC could sure use some "buzz" in the industry and a few
> well-deserved glowing reviews. Anyone have any suggestion which
> publications might be more open to reviewing a product like MC? Is
> MC's niche -- which is certainly multifaceted -- significant in the
> industry?
We haven't done too badly on reviews overall lately:
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/37/rmetcrda.dat.htm
http://www.elementkjournals.com/sun/9912/sun99c2.htm
http://the-internet-eye.com/reviews2000/Jan/MetaCard/default.htm
The InfoWorld review is particularly significant since that's the
second largest magazine in the IT market (InformationWeek having a bit
larger circulation), and they weren't so kind to one of our major
competitors (ToolBook):
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ic/xml/00/01/10/000110ictool.xml
We haven't had much luck getting Mac magazines to review the product,
but given their penchant for picking on the UIs of products, maybe
that's a benefit in disguise. Certainly Cross Worlds should have a
much better shot at them with their new UI.
Regards,
Scott
PS: My review of the ZD site is not so glowing either: it was very
slow loading, I got two timeouts while doing searchs, ran into several
broken links and missing images, and found little useful information
on any competing products for all my effort...
> Craig
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> Craig Spooner
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> and WebCT Administrator
> Office of Instructional Services
> Colorado State University
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