Comments on: Web 2.0 and the New New e-Economy http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2005/12/05/web-20-and-the-new-new-e-economy/ software development and testing Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:51:01 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Administrator http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2005/12/05/web-20-and-the-new-new-e-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-251 Administrator Thu, 08 Dec 2005 19:51:04 +0000 http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/?p=19#comment-251 Hi, Aaron, You'll have to build an incredible amount of trust and credibility to prove that my passwords are safe on your site. But even then, if your servers were hacked and my data compromised, how would I even know about it? I'm thinking this "single point of vulnerability" is part of the reason Microsoft Wallet was unsuccessful. But maybe the point is that one shouldn't store passwords to banking sites on 7dots, but it would be fine to store passwords to slashdot, digg, flickr, and other sites that don't hold sensitive data. (If hackers compromised a list of flickr id/password... who cares!) With that said... I do understand how fun it is to come up with an idea and hack away furiously 'til it's ready to release. I wish you all the best. - Jason Hi, Aaron,

You’ll have to build an incredible amount of trust and credibility to prove that my passwords are safe on your site. But even then, if your servers were hacked and my data compromised, how would I even know about it? I’m thinking this “single point of vulnerability” is part of the reason Microsoft Wallet was unsuccessful. But maybe the point is that one shouldn’t store passwords to banking sites on 7dots, but it would be fine to store passwords to slashdot, digg, flickr, and other sites that don’t hold sensitive data. (If hackers compromised a list of flickr id/password… who cares!)

With that said… I do understand how fun it is to come up with an idea and hack away furiously ’til it’s ready to release. I wish you all the best. – Jason

]]> By: Aaron Schaap http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2005/12/05/web-20-and-the-new-new-e-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-250 Aaron Schaap Wed, 07 Dec 2005 02:21:46 +0000 http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/?p=19#comment-250 Haven't read your "42nouns.com" post before but did find it funny. As for what we're trying to do - we simply started making an app that was extremely useful for ourselves and decided it would be something other people could find useful. 7dots is essencially a password management system. With all the different accounts (FTP, MySQL, websites, etc...) I have, it's hard to keep track of them all. As for the name - sure, it's silly but it comes because (1) it was available for purchase and because (2) 7 is the amount of information most people can remember at one time without messing up the numbers (this is why American phone numbers are 7 digits). The dots represents the dots that come up when you put in information into a password field. On another note: Everyone has their own system of managing their information, we're just offering one that works for us and hopefully others will find it useful as well :-) Haven’t read your “42nouns.com” post before but did find it funny. As for what we’re trying to do – we simply started making an app that was extremely useful for ourselves and decided it would be something other people could find useful.

7dots is essencially a password management system. With all the different accounts (FTP, MySQL, websites, etc…) I have, it’s hard to keep track of them all.

As for the name – sure, it’s silly but it comes because (1) it was available for purchase and because (2) 7 is the amount of information most people can remember at one time without messing up the numbers (this is why American phone numbers are 7 digits). The dots represents the dots that come up when you put in information into a password field.

On another note: Everyone has their own system of managing their information, we’re just offering one that works for us and hopefully others will find it useful as well :-)

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