Wordnik: beta · Jun 24
1,111 Twitter Apps · Jun 9
I just stumbled upon the 1,111th Twitter application (the lovely Twittami from Italy) – time for a few fun stats:
Twitter apps since 2007 (518 in 2009 so far)
only 18% of Twitter apps are released in beta
massive 32% of all apps launched in 2009 are based on Twitter
The data are not exhaustive of course, but I do track a lot of sites. Since I’m missing both Twitter and other sites the overall picture should be about the same.
I’ve also updated the Twitter 100 list:
twitter (19161 overall)
tweetdeck (5783 overall)
twitterfeed (5742 overall)
twitter-search (5373 overall)
wefollow (5207 overall)
twittervision (5078 overall)
twhirl (4598 overall)
twitpic (4220 overall)
twistori (3559 overall)
tweetscan (3078 overall)
hashtags (3062 overall)
Capitalism Beta · May 18
Umair Haque’s presentation on Capitalism 2.0
Beta of the Day · Mar 5
A big shout to John Blossom (@jblossom) who startet a MoMB Beta of the Day series on Twitter.
The Yearbook · Dec 22
launches 2005 – 2008
I’ve added a fresh set of lists – the yearbook – to the labs section. Basically they organize the mixin top 100 list by year:
6000 Betas · Oct 27
The MoMB just crossed the 6000 betas mark (the 6000th app listed is the super sharp youcalc.)
It doesn’t seem like the beta-phenomenon is cooling down soon, so stay tuned.
Betas of the Year 2005 - Where are they now? · Oct 25
the next web took a look at Dion Hinchcliffe’s Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005 list and asked asked the brilliant question where are they now…?.
Most of them (22) are still alive – del.icio.us is alive and well, blinklist is alive but dying – and six of them are dead.
I’m always interested in benchmarking the performance of beta sites so I too took a look at the Betas of the Year list I’ve compiled at the end of 2005.
And guess what, all of them are still around and well, most of them actually best in class in their field.
Nr. 1: Writely
Status: alive and well – purchased by Google in 2006, became the basic building block of Google Docs.
Nr. 2: flickr
Status: alive and well – was acquired by Yahoo.
Nr. 3: Netvibes
Status: alive and well
Runners-Up: (alphabetical)
Status: alive
Status: alive
Status: alive and well – also puchased by Yahoo.
Status: alive and well
Status: alive
Status: alive
Status: alive – also acquired by Google, was integrated in Google Analytics as part of the redesign.
Status: still around.
Status: alive – didn’t quite match the expectations, but let’s not forget that Twitter is a spin-off.
Status: alive – small but dedicated group of users.
Beta like it's 2001 · Sep 30
Celebrating its 10th birthday, Google has brought back their index from January 2001. E.g. beta
Beta is a state of mind · Sep 22
slightly off topic, but an interesting interpenetration between the systems beta, twitter and art: 854467791 @ Twit2art #47
(via After Twit2art, here comes Auction Art)
5555 Betas · Jun 19
The MoMB just crossed the 5555 betas mark (the 5555th app listed is the super sharp Ameritocracy.)
A few fun charts:
As most of you know we focus on plain vanilla public betas (77.7%). But we also collect sites in alpha (4.9%), sites which have not publicly launched yet (private alphas, private betas, sites in stealth mode, ...) and require some sort of invitation to get in (15.7%), or sites which come in some other beta-ish (gamma, zeta, feta, ...) flavor (1.7%).
Google has launched only 2.6% of all betas,
but they still lead the pack compared to Yahoo, Microsoft and others.
We’ve listed sites from 25 languages, about one out of 12 betas is in German.
Interestingly enough only 185 sites (3.33%) have been formally released (i.e. dropped the beta tag) and only 62 sites (1.12%) have gone out of business and entered the deadpool. I try my best to update the status of sites and I definitely missed a few, but even if you triple the numbers more than 90% of all sites remain in perpetual beta and only a handful of sites just die.
The most popular initial letters of betas are S (552), M (459) and T (396); rather neglected letters include X (26), Q (55) and U (71).
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(see also 2001: A Beta Odyssey and 1000 Betas)