[Macwoburn] FW: ..., softwareidb -- entirely too lame to be useful (yet)

[David L. Presberg]

RE Bruce Conrad's posting on 06 July 2006 12:48 EDT:

> fyi, here's a website of potential interest:
> www.softwareidb.com
> 
> potentially useful...it didn't have a lot of info there yet. It's supposed
> to be a DB of all software created and 'what's happened to it'. Might be
> good (eventually) if you want to find out whatever became of that software
> that you used to use years ago...

That "eventually" ought to be raised to a fairly large power
(numerically).  Tonight I was looking for info on installing a Flash
Player on a Mac OS 8.6 (don't snicker... don't even ask!).  I found
Adobe's download site and the collection of archived versions they
keep up for developer's testing purposes.  All the included README
files in the .zip files are the same: a disclaimer that the files
are to be used at the peril of the user, in effect.

Now if this "sofwtareidb" site were *really* populated, there would
be a cross-reference of versions of Flash to the Mac OS and browser
it was first or last running on.  But the site did NOT even have
any hits on searches for "flash", "Flash", "Shockwave",
or "Macromedia".   The only item listed for Adobe was "Photoshop CS2".
Sigh.

I couldn't even find out who was behind this "softwareidb" effort apart
from the website/web-hosting/sw-development firm that got the credit-
line (at the bottom of the page) who are hosting it.  (Is this a
"skunkworks" project by Modomo, Inc.  (http://www.modomo.com/)??
The only "signature" (or other indication of who the "softwareidb"
principals are is their top-page signature:
   "Thank you,
    The Software Internet Database Team"

Anyone know?

-- Pres (feeling unusually grumpy, tonight)