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WebCockpit: I don’t know what it is, because the site won’t tell me

The following is a sponsored review of WebCockpit 1.0. I’m not really sure what WebCockpit is, since the main page of the site only indicates that it is some sort of philosophical or mental technique for becoming more productive in life and work. Apparently, the book Simpleology 101 teaches you how to work smarter, not harder, and this website is the ‘Web 2.0′ accompaniment to it.

However, the site is incredibly vague, and mostly looks like a get rich quick scheme. Besides a few vacuous quotes about how great Simpleology is, and how it will help you get rich and buy a nice new car, there’s no actual content indicating why or how the product might work, or anything else that convinces me to inquire further.

To actually inquire further, you need to give the site your name and an email account, in order to “verify you are a real person.” I, for one, am not one to give out information on the internet to incredibly sketchy looking sites that won’t be at all specific about the product they’re hawking.

Now, I’m willing to believe that there is a chance that this site isn’t just a pyramid scheme or a cheesy self-help site designed to exploit the gullible, but the site authors are going to need to be a lot more forthcoming with this kind of info before I give away my name and email address. Also, all the talk of ‘no committment’ when giving your email scares me, since there is obviously no commitment implied in giving out your email address. Sooo, why insist that there’s no catch?

As always, should the makers of the site decide to change the appearance of the site, they are welcome to contact me and I will re-review the site free of charge, but I would highly encourage more transparency on the main page.