Shocking news (from a betalogical point of view): only 10% (2 out of 19) of the startups which presented themselves at the Startup Rally of the The Next Web Conference have been released in beta* (falling from 53% in 2012 and and 60% in 2008). Oddly enough the tracks have been called ‘Alpha Rally’ and ‘Beta Rally’…
6scan *
appvetica
babelverse
belladati
between
deadsocial
folloyu
fusionsheep
hojoki
nuji
playerduel
robin
sellanapp
shelby.tv
six3 *
snowciety
tawkon
tripl
waytag
posted Jun 21, 2012
Minor update: I’ve added a custom search engine which searches within many cool and/or useful blogs (list below).
abstract dynamics
ajaxian
al3x
allthingsd
alarm:clock euro
alltechconsidered
altsearchengines
ambermac
arcticstartup
arstechnica
avc
bbc technology
bits
blog before you think
blogoscoped
bokardo
bubblegeneration
cdixon
centernetworks
cleverclogs
demogirl
dion hinchcliffe
edge economy
echovar
epicenter
evhead
exciting commerce
factoryjoe
feld
foundread
gigaom
go2web20
goingsocialnow
guardian media
guardian pda
guardian technology
guardian technology blog
hackr
horsepigcow
infectious greed
joho
joshua schachter
juxtaviews
kevin marks
kidmercuryblog
killerstartups
konterfai
labnol
lalawag
langreiter
librarystuff
lifehacker
lifestream blog
like it matters
longtail
louisgray
makeuseof
marhall kirkpatrick
mashable
masternewmedia
mediashift
mediatope II
micropersuasion
momb
monkeybites
notsorelevant
paidcontent
parislemon
paulbuchheit
paulgraham
plansphere
plasticbag
postbubble
profy
programmableweb
qwerky
radar
readwriteweb
rev2
ross
ruminate
scobleizer
scripting
seth’s blog
shirky
shoutblog
signal vs. noise
siliconflorist
smarterware
solutionwatch
somewhat frank
startupsquad
steverubel
stoweboyd
supr.c.ilio.us
susan mernit
the next web
thewavingcat
techcrunch
techcrunch eu
techcrunch it
techdirt
textually
thetechnium
tomatic
trendwatching
under the radar
vacuum
valleywag
webby’s world
webmonkey
webware
zengestrom
posted Nov 09, 2010
The MoMB turned five today and coincidentally also just crossed the 9000 betas mark (the 9000th app listed is the super sharp DropGallery.)
A few fun charts:
As most of you know we focus on plain vanilla public betas (78.6%). But we also collect sites in alpha (4.7%), sites which have not publicly launched yet (private alphas, private betas, sites in stealth mode, …) and require some sort of invitation to get in (14.3%), or sites which come in some other beta-ish (gamma, zeta, feta, labs, …) flavor (2.4%).
Google has launched only 2.3% of all betas.
We’ve seen quite a bunch of Twitter Apps lately, unfortunately only 18% of them have been released in beta.
Startup launches since 2004. The peak was in August 2007 with 487 new launches, overall I’m tracking about 22,000 sites.
It has been another interesting year, tons of apps I can’t imagine living without now – if you’ve been hanging in here for a while I hope you’ve been discovering some cool sites too. A big thanks to all of you and to all the wonderful startups.
Btw: you can subscribe to the MoMB here or follow me on twitter here or on Google Buzz here or on FriendFeed here and new additions to the MoMB are retweeted here
(see also MoMB 4 | 7777 Betas, 5555 Betas, MoMB 2 | 4000 Betas, 2001: A Beta Odyssey and 1000 Betas)
posted Oct 01, 2010
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