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Beta Quotient Webware 100 Media

Only 28% of the Webware 100 Finalists in the category Media are released in beta*:

☍ 11.06.2007

Beta Quotient Webware 100 Entertainment

Only 16% of the Webware 100 Finalists in the category Entertainment are released in beta*:

☍ 11.06.2007

Beta Quotient Webware 100 Data

OMG, only 4% of the Webware 100 Finalists in the category Data are released in beta*:

☍ 11.06.2007

Beta Quotient Webware 100 Community

Only 16% of the Webware 100 Finalists in the category Community are released in beta*:

☍ 11.06.2007

Beta Quotient Webware 100 Communications

Cool 36% of the Webware 100 Finalists in the category Communications released in beta*:

☍ 11.06.2007

Beta Quotient Webware 100 Browsing

Only 28% of the Webware 100 Finalists in the category Browsing are released in beta*:

☍ 11.06.2007

Structure and Interpretation of Beta Programs II

About a year ago flickr dropped the beta tag and went into gamma.

Recently flickr also dropped the gamma tag and now says it loves you.

Disruptive times.

☍ 04.06.2007

Beta Quotient TheNextWeb

Bad news (from a betalogical point of view): only 32% (7 of 22) of apps speedpitching in the Startup Arena of TheNextWeb Conference which happened yesterday in Amsterdam are released in beta*:

(see the beta quotient for 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%))

☍ 02.06.2007

Beta Quotient Gezwitscher

Good news (from a betalogical point of view): about 38% (3 of 8) of German apps inspired by Twitter are released in beta*:

(see the beta quotient for 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%))

☍ 11.05.2007

The 50 Most Popular Google Betas

Last month we kicked off the MoMB Labs with lists of the 100 most popular sites inspired by flickr and the 100 most popular web 2.0-ish sites from Germany , this month we take a look at the 50 most popular betas from Google (the grandmaster of beta) – again as measured by the number of bookmarks at del.icio.us, excerpt:

  1. gmail (13434)
  2. google-maps (9023)
  3. google-web-toolkit (7919)
  4. google-reader (7090)
  5. google-news (6581)
  6. google-video (5419)
  7. google-scholar (4832)
  8. google-code-search (4754)
  9. google-docs (4628)
  10. google-trends (4626)
  11. google-calendar (3963)
  12. google-book-search (2889)
  13. google-blog-search (2706)
  14. google-patent-search (1938)
  15. measure-map (1873)
  16. google-image-labeler (1774)
  17. google-page-creator (1673)
  18. google-groups (1523)
  19. google-notebook (1454)
  20. google-apps-for-your-domain (1418)
  21. froogle (1293)
  22. blogger (1254)
  23. google-ajax-search-api (1212)
  24. google-website-optimizer (1190)
  25. google-base (1116)

full list: The Good, the Beta and the Google

☍ 29.04.2007

3000 Betas

The MoMB just crossed the 3000 betas mark (the 3000th app added was the super sharp twittervision)







☍ 22.04.2007

The Museum without Images

The screenshots should be back in a couple of days – in the meantime I hope the riddler mode will do …

☍ 12.04.2007

MoMB @ Twitter

I was trying to figure out how to incorporate Twitter at the MoMB for quite a while, but yesterday – when I compiled the mixin hot and top lists and Pandora hit the 30,000 bookmarks mark at del.icio.us, it also hit me: for documenting potentially interesting/disruptive micro data points we stumble upon.

Join the MoMB on Twitter

☍ 27.03.2007

Germany 2.0

Last week we kicked off the MoMB Labs with a list of the 100 most popular sites inspired by flickr , this week we take a look at the 100 most popular web 2.0-ish sites from Germany – again as measured by the number of bookmarks at del.icio.us, excerpt:

  1. websnapr (1749) capture screenshots of web pages
  2. amberjack (1734) create site tours
  3. mypictr (1360) create pictures for social networks
  4. studiverzeichnis (822) social network for college students
  5. spreadshirt (801) design, buy and sell t-shirts
  6. photocase (579) photo community and marketplace
  7. plazes (549) detects your location and connects you to people and places nearby
  8. mister-wong (494) social bookmarking site
  9. xing (462) social network for business professionals
  10. qype (454) local search and recommendations
  11. teamslide (391) live web presentations
  12. mnemomap (385) interesting search engine
  13. favoor (367) a start page
  14. mabber (354) instant messenger
  15. fotolia (354) royalty free stock photos
  16. myvideo (352) video sharing site
  17. holidaycheck (234) travel site
  18. google-news-deutschland (232) google news germany
  19. clipfish (217) video sharing site
  20. yigg (179) site inspired by digg
  21. abebooks (170) marketplace for books
  22. sevenloadde (164) video and photo sharing site
  23. hitflip (163) trade cds, dvds and games
  24. seitwert (160) calculates a score for websites
  25. iliketotallyloveit (153) site inspired by digg
  26. visualorgasm (149) design community
  27. loudblog (144) podcasting tool
  28. mite (134) cute tool for time tracking
  29. snapmania (134) photo sharing site
  30. lycos-iq (123) q&a site
    update: lycos-iq has become cosmiq
  31. kochpiraten (116) social recipes site
  32. yahoo-clever (114) q&a site
  33. meinprof (111) rate your college
  34. 25peeps (109) promote your blog with a pic
  35. zpeech (104) discuss websites
  36. edelight (100) social shopping for gifts
  37. 2video (100) download videos from video sharing sites
  38. google-buchsuche (99) google book search
  39. dopcast (97) podcast directory
  40. folkd (96) social bookmarking with a twist
  41. knuddels (95) chat
  42. so-zeug (87) buy and sell handmade things
  43. dealjaeger (86) hunt for deals
  44. spreed (84) web based meetings
  45. jogmap (84) maps for runners
  46. icio.de (83) social bookmarking site
  47. combots (80) chat via avatars
  48. amiando (76) manage invitations
  49. reliwa (74) share your books and music collections
  50. imagelooop (73) generate photo slideshows

more

☍ 21.03.2007

MoMB Labs

Our lists which track the popularity of sites (beta / beta or not) have become a little fat headed (long tail wise) recently.

Time to introduce the MoMB Labs (not much to see there yet) which will become our umbrella for various lists, reports and stats exploring verticals such as digg clones, sites filtered by language, dating sites for pets and the like.

The first list displays the 100 most popular sites whose naming scheme is inspired by flickr – again as measured by the number of bookmarks at del.icio.us, excerpt:

  1. flickr (27036)
  2. retrievr (4698)
  3. frappr (2414)
  4. roundedcornr (1864)
  5. colr (1783)
  6. websnapr (1738)
  7. scanr (1636)
  8. priceprotectr (1502)
  9. mypictr (1353)
  10. snipplr (1197)
  11. fastr (1083)
  12. wallpapr (1028)
  13. preloadr (979)
  14. gickr (913)
  15. feedblendr (846)
  16. gtalkr (812)
  17. wishlistr (786)
  18. empressr (741)
  19. juploadr (701)
  20. clockr (697)
  21. talkr (656)
  22. resizr (632)
  23. idgettr (621)
  24. phixr (618)
  25. mappr (594)
  26. lingr (591)
  27. bubblr (587)
  28. happycodr (546)
  29. calcr (535)
  30. hotspotr (532)
  31. blufr (528)
  32. dumpr (526)
  33. tumblr (499)
  34. isolatr (498)
  35. trezr (468)
  36. stockpickr (443)
  37. flappr (432)
  38. grazr (422)
  39. zooomr (421)
  40. sketchr (406)
  41. delivr (400)
  42. slickr (391)
  43. localhostr (388)
  44. extortr (386)
  45. browsr (384)
  46. lickr (344)
  47. wankr (333)
  48. tipstrs (309)
  49. quickrflickr (305)
  50. certifyr (270)

more

☍ 14.03.2007