After two years of work, Cocoon is about to go live with the beta, providing safe, secure browsing. I’ve been lucky to get to use it while the engineers have worked out the bugs and smoothed the rough edges. Last weekend the servers were installed and have been being tested ever since. Everything is now running shockingly fast. It truly is amazing Cocoon can filter and or transcode each website, wiping away any viruses or malware and do it with no discernible delay. You need to see it for yourself.
But being safe from viruses and malware is just a part of Cocoon. Additionally you can manage spam by creating random and anonymous email addresses when registering for online services or making purchases. Cocoon keeps track of all address and messages you receive and makes it easy to manage them. You can even have the email address expire at a set date.
Browsing is easier too. While doing research I’ve enjoyed being able to save the tabs that I have open for future use. I can access all my history and saved tabs on any computer I use, and I can make notes that are saved to specific web pages that I can reference anytime I go back to that page.
I’m truly jazzed about everything Cocoon has to offer. And I know it’s just going to keep getting better – but I’ll save those improvements for another post. For now, go check it out yourself by signing up for the free beta at www.getCocoon.com and start enjoying safe, secure and virus free browsing. Oh, and tell your friends too please!
Sounds like an interesting app. A comment about the marketing, though. This website and your recent tweets make it sound as if the beta is live and ready to go. For instance, “check it out and pass it on” really does suggest that the thing is ready to try. Actually, when someone clicks “sign up for the beta” they have to give an email address; upon submitting it, they are informed that they’ll be sent an email with details of how to get the Firefox plugin. I haven’t had my email yet, 24 hr after “signing up”.
Respectfully, I suggest that this delay takes a lot of the shine off the decision to try the app, and somewhat reduces the degree of trust that your beta testers have decided to give you in trusting you with their email addresses. It would have been much better if you had either (i) been ready to send out the link to the plugin *before* starting to collect email addresses, or (ii) been much clearer up front that the thing wasn’t quite ready yet.
antenna
Comment by antenna — June 16, 2010 @ 4:13 amRe the previous comment. I now have had the email, and it says “At this moment, the Beta Program enrollment is full, but as soon as we have more openings, we’ll be glad to have you. When availability increases, we will send you a reminder email with a link to get started with the service.”
My previous comments regarding readiness still apply. If you aren’t ready for more testers, please don’t ask for our email addresses without letting us know the state of play. Thanks.
antenna
Comment by antenna — June 16, 2010 @ 4:17 amYou are absolutely right. Thanks for the feedback. We expected the invitations & link to download would have gone out yesterday, but the engineers are still tweaking things. From a marketing side I’d rather we were up and running and fixing it as we go. But I do understand the engineers want it as right as possible. I think we were just a bit premature / over anxious about going live. Our bad. Thanks for your patience. We’ll get the invite to you asap.
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Comment by cocoonapp — June 16, 2010 @ 5:12 pmCool. Looking forward to trying it out.
antenna
Comment by antenna — June 16, 2010 @ 6:48 pmHey there,
Thanks for the visit. Hope you’ve tried the product, we’d love any feedback you have. And please, tell your friends!
Thanks,
David
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Comment by cocoonapp — October 15, 2010 @ 2:05 pm