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).
Btw: you can follow me on twitter here or on FriendFeed here and new additions to the MoMB are retweeted here
(see also 2001: A Beta Odyssey and 1000 Betas)
Beta Quotient TheNextWeb 2008 · Mar 26
Good news (from a betalogical point of view): more than 60% (14 of 23) of the startups presenting at the TheNextWeb Conference which will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on April 3rd & 4th are released in beta*:
andunite *
backbase
beezbox
bemba *
cocomment
confnetwork *
ebuddy
empressr *
fav.or.it *
fleck *
goojet * (private beta)
hoera * (under construction)
introniche * (under construction)
lookery
netlog
radionomy *
symbloo *
twingly * (private beta)
ubervu * (demo)
wakoopa
wauw! *
webnode
zilok
(see the beta quotient for Webware 100 (19%), TheNextWeb 2007 (32%), German Twitter Clones (38%), Hungary (45%), Seth Godin’s Web 2.0 List (37%), DEMOfall 06 (27%), MoMB (37%), TechCrunch (38%), web 2.0 (1 – 25%), germany (60%), rails (5%), connected innovators (83%), apps inspired by flickr (43%) and apps inspired by digg (21%))
The 50 Most Popular Sites Remixing Twitter · Feb 14
Twitter probably has inspired more cool mashups and remixes than any other site in recent history.
Twitter 50 is a list – in early alpha at best – of the 50 most popular ones ranked by measuring the popularity at del.icio.us.
Excerpt:
- twittervision (2914)
- twitterrific (972)
- twitterfeed (948)
- terraminds-twitter-search (662)
- twitbin (616)
- snitter (474)
- hellotxt (467)
- twitthis (441)
- tweetmeme (358)
- twitterposter (352)
- twitterholic (343)
- twittermap (334)
- twittercal (333)
- twitteroo (329)
- tweet-r (311)
- twittergram (297)
- twitter-karma (290)
- tweeterboard (289)
- tweetvolume (284)
- twhirl (283)
- twitternotes (279)
- twitterfox (252)
- twitter100 (247)
- twitku-2 (247)
- twitdir (242)
read the full list here
(btw.: you can follow a Twitter stream of the MoMB here)
Start-ups Rally · Jan 14
Slightly off topic: Plugg opened up registrations for its Start-ups Rally
Plugg wants to provide a platform for emerging European tech start-ups looking for early-stage funding and trade press, tech blogger and early-adopter attention. A selection of 20 start-ups with strong roots in Europe will be carefully picked by a jury of renowned industry professionals out of the submitted companies. They will have the opportunity to present themselves on stage in front of the entire audience and have a chance of winning the Plugg Start-Up of the Year Award 2008.
Goodbye 2007 · Dec 21
We’re on vacation for 2 weeks, for the MoMB that’s a wrap for this year. Thanks for visiting and have a great holiday season!
Visual Beta · Nov 4
Minor update: the MoMB just got a fantastic visual search widget (powered by Quintura.) Just enter a search term or click on a popular term in the cloud and a search cloud of related terms is generated automagically.
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Check it out here. It’s a nice way to intuitively dive into the textual subconsciousness of the MoMB.
You can sign up for your own search widget here