Top of the Pops
I’ve added two sections:
- The Top 100 – a list of the 100 most popular betas (and alphas, and pre-betas, …) based on the number of how many bookmarks there are in del.icio.us; this list will be updated biweekly, and
- The Hot 100 – which is a kind of mini-zeitgeist and displays the most popular betas (and alphas, and pre-betas, …) based on how many bookmarks there have been added within the last 7 days; this list will be updated every Sunday.
The Hot 100 list probably is the more interesting one, since it provides some indication of which applications are gaining steam in the Web 2.0 space. The Top 100 still might be a good starting point for exploring new apps in a quality controlled way.
Let me know (leave a comment or drop me an email) if you have ideas for other lists or filters you would like to see.
1000 Betas
The MoMB just hit the 1000 entries mark (a tribute to Google) – here is the condensed gallery of all betas, alphas and landing apps so far (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5):
(If you are a beta bitten Web 2.0 enthusiast: challenge yourself and find out how many of them you are able to recognize.)
Popular Betas [March 2006]
The biggest betas in the webosphere, as measured by number of bookmarks at del.icio.us.
please note: this list is rather outdated. you can find the freshest and constantly (well, biweekly) updated list of popular betas here and a list tracking the zeitgeist of betas here
- flickr (10781)
- netvibes (6960)
- writely (6021)
- typetester (5477)
- delicious (5287)
- pocketmod (4785)
- google-maps (4239)
- ning (3952)
- google-news (3864)
- listible (3130)
- keepvid (3058)
- remember-the-milk (2758)
- google-video (2612)
- zillow (2477)
- codase (2307)
- google-scholar (2257)
- librarything (2070)
- blinklist (2017)
- browsershots (1967)
- ourmedia (1927)
- yotophoto (1901)
- kiko (1885)
- 30-boxes (1857)
- newsvine (1697)
- windows-live (1603)
- frappr (1492)
- google-blog-search (1375)
- yahoo-podcasts (1366)
- thumbstacks (1360)
- krugle (1303)
- pageflakes (1262)
- odeo (1256)
- measure-map (1256)
- riya (1225)
- foldershare (1181)
- calendarhub (1120)
- planzo (1119)
- windows-live-local (1106)
- etsy (1094)
- cocomment (1087)
- hipcal (1072)
- thinkfree-office-online (1023)
- rollyo (1012)
- gollum (998)
- map-builder (975)
- google-print (973)
- listal (948)
- sproutliner (936)
- wink (902)
- firefox-add-ons (891)
- magnolia (884)
- eventful (883)
- ux-magazine (880)
- meetwithapproval (875)
- gtalkr (853)
- yelp (832)
- bubbleshare (823)
- millions-of-games (810)
- podscope (808)
- podzinger (805)
- openomy (805)
- start (761)
- inquisitor-instant-search (759)
- time-tacker (752)
- google-pack (747)
- my-web-20 (738)
- geourl-20 (735)
- flock (733)
- yahoo-answers (728)
- whatisthatfile (725)
- web-20-validator (723)
- ajaxwhois (721)
- gmail (720)
- squidoo (715)
- css-rounded-box-generator (715)
- num-sum (710)
- google-page-creator (709)
- mystickies (698)
- bitty-browser (693)
- trulia (690)
- npr-podcast-directory (688)
- fundable (663)
- e-messenger (660)
- swicki (637)
- feedlounge (634)
- talk-digger (631)
- froogle (628)
- kaboodle (614)
- yahoo-mindset (607)
- skobee (605)
- ultimate-flash-face (596)
- feedmap (595)
- world66 (570)
- feedshake (570)
- epassportphoto (568)
- edgeio (561)
- feed43 (555)
- riffs (541)
- rallypoint (535)
- pledgebank (526)
The Waiting Web
Webapps in stealth mode, pre-launch, private beta, by invitation or landing where you can leave your email address (this list is not exhaustive, of course):
(updated 3/27/2006)
enter your email address and click ‘submit’.
Mailing List Sign-up.
Sign Up below, and we might let you in.
Bungee Labs (#)
If you would like to be considered for this beta please fill out this form.
Register to participate in our upcoming Beta.
Enter your email above to find out when you can start feeding your calendar.
Enter your email address below and we’ll keep you posted.
signup to be notified when Chalkside launches.
if you’d like to sign up for more information when then site becomes available, please enter your email address below.
Request a claimID Invite.
Enter your email address in above and we will notify you as soon as Colib is ready.
Leave your name and email address to be notified when the service is publicly available.
Enter your email address and we’ll let you know when you can use the site.
We’d love to have you join our Beta program. Just sign up here and we’ll let you know when it’s ready.
Leave your e-mail.
Sign up to be notified when we launch.
Sign up to receive an update when the site launches, and for possible inclusion as a beta tester.
If you want to be informed of the Dosize Beta launch,send us your email.
Enter your email address below if you’d like to be part of our Ether Beta Program and receive news on our upcoming launch.
factorio.us (#)
Enter your email address and we’ll let you know when you can use the site
Sign up now if you would like to participate.
Want to know when we go live? Leave your email address (we never share).
Sign up here to be among the first to learn just how much more organized and efficient you can become
Enter your email address in the box below if you’d like to be informed when it is ready.
freeCSScart (#)
Be Updated Be the first to BETA Be Informed
Frugalbetty (#)
If you would like to be notified of our launch, please enter your email address below.
enter email address. keep me posted.
Enter your email to become a future Beta User.
enter your email address to find out what’s happening when the time comes.
Please fill in the form below to send a beta request!
Signup to receive a notification when we go live!
Interested in learning more about Illumio? Please sign up below.
Sign up today to receive all of the latest information on the full launch of innerTee as well as any special promotions.
Interested in joining the introPLAY beta? Submit your info below.
Enter your info and we’ll send you an email as soon as we go live.
To beta test Litepost, please enter your email address below.
Tell us your e-mail to get an invite once we launch our public beta.
Surprisingly enough, you can leave your email here and we will call you up for the beta
Leave us your e-mail address and we will notify you when we launch.
Measure Map (#)
We’re making improvements and not currently offering new accounts. Sign up and we’ll let you know when we do.
Sign Up.
Interested? send email.
Upon the release of our service in summer of 2006 we will be offering one free beta month to users who subscribe to our mailing list below.
Sign up for beta
Nativetext (#)
Sign-up to be notified when Nativetext accounts are available to the public
Signup to our early-bird beta and we will unleash hosted storage greatness upon you in the near future
Sign up to be notified when ouioo goes live.
people2pray (#)
If you’d like to be one of the first to try it out, enter your email address below. We’ll send you an invitation to create an account when the beta begins.
If you would like to be considered for our invitation only beta or would like to be notified of our launch, please enter your email below
Leave us your email address* and we will notify you when our public beta launches.
Want to be kept up to date on QAable? We’ll need your email then
Wenn Sie als einer der ersten dabei sein wollen, tragen Sie hier bitte Ihre Email-Adresse ein.
Send us your email and we’ll let you know when you can check it all out.
Sign-Up
get invited to our Web 2.0 beta. if you’re cool enough.
If this sounds interesting, enter your email address below and we’ll notify you when we go live.
Sign up for our Announcement List to be invited to our Alpha releases.
Just enter your email and we’ll drop you a line as soon as we go live.
Sixtyspots (#)
Type your e-mail here.
Sign up and we will let you know when SKY-click is released
Fill in your email address below to receive information about the development of Socius and to find out when it becomes publicly available.
If you’d like to participate prior to the public launch, please sign up and we’ll make sure you get an early look before our public release.
If you’d like to be informed of our beta launch please give us your email address and blog URL, if you have one.
drop us a note here and we’ll shoot you a password as soon as we bring more folks into the mix.
If you would like to participate in our “invite only” Beta program, please enter your email address below, and we will contact you.
Sign Up and be the first to find out what Subway Crush is all about.
We’re not going to give up too much more info about Swivel right now, but if you would like us to let you know when Swivel is up and running again, you can give us your email address here
Sign-Up
TableFinder (#)
Would you like to become one of the first who get to use our new technology? Yes, I would!
Sign me up for news and updates.
Sign-up to our announcement mailing list if you’d like to be involved in beta testing or be informed when version 1.0 is available.
If you want to be informed of the Tractis Beta launch, send us your email.
For more information please submit this form
Please sign up to be on the beta waitinglist!
If you’d like to know when we’re ready for beta, enter your email address and we’ll keep you updated!
If you would like to be informed about the features, please leave your email below.
Please fill out this form.
If you’d like to be one of the first to experience Zigtag, please sign up below.
A few are without any email notification process:
Coming Soon!
Coming soon
For inquiries, please visit our contact section.
Launch Pending
watch this space.
wing by on July 4th, 2006
Coming soon.
Launch Pending
Coming soon.
Details coming soon.
Launching Soon…
Coming early 2006
SocialMail (#)
Launch Pending
Noch etwas Geduld
Launch Pending
technoranki (#)
At the moment there is no public membership.
Coming soon.
weatherjam (#)
Coming soon
Beta Quotient: digg
Pretty disturbing news (from a betalogical point of view): only about 21.5 % of applications inspired by digg are released in beta.
I’ve stumbled upon 70 sites, only 15 of ‘em are in beta:
- Blogocracia (#)
- diglog (#)
- digg.de (#)
- dingr (#)
- eu curti (#)
- Fresqui (#)
- IndianPad (#)
- livedigg (#)
- meneame (#)
- n.ewradio (#)
- newsgarbage (#)
- Populicias (#)
- Qoosa (#)
- Shaveh (#)
- tagRiver (#)
The list of all sites I know (which is not exhaustive, of course, but should be a representative sample) is here
(In the next couple of weeks I’ll take a look at other types of applications like social bookmarking, photo sharing, search engines, online file storage, and so on.)
BetaCrunch
Michael Arrington has posted some seminal musings on launching apps in beta – and the comments provide a nice potpourri of opinions.
Betas of the Year
Seems like a good time in the year to compile Top Ten lists. The Year in Beta has been fantastic, and I do have my personal darlings of course, but I try to document the betas nonjudgmental here, so I’d love to compile a Betas of the Year list based on your favorites.
If you want to participate, please send me your list of favorite betas until Dec. 16 to saurierduval-at-gmail-dot-com (for a quick reminder of which applications have been released in beta take a peek at the collection).
ground rules:
- up to 10 applications
- quickly annotated or not
- ranked or not
the apps should be:
- in beta or pre-beta
- webbased
- freely accessible
Many thanks!
The Wall Street Beta
The Wall Street Journal: For Some Technology Companies, ‘Beta’ Becomes a Long-Term Label
(this article mentions the term beta 50 times)
Slashdot: Why Does Beta Last So Long?
(via langreiter: 2005-11-28-beta)
Beta Lounge
Off topic, but fantastic music inside: Beta Lounge (an online new music showcase). Dive into the archive
Beta Books
Honorable mentions:
the Beta Book Program of the Pragmatic Programmers:
A couple of months before a book is due to appear in its final form, we might release it under the Beta Book program. We’ll make two products available in our store:
* the Beta Book in PDF form
* the Beta Book/Paper book combo pack (PDF now, paperback when available)
Both items will be for sale at the regular price for these products (which means the combo pack will available for a substantial discount over buying the PDF and book separately).
The Beta Book only exists in PDF form. When you place your order for either of these products, we’ll ship you the Beta Book in its current state as a PDF.
When the final book is released, we’ll automatically ship you the final version of the PDF. If you ordered the combo pack, we’ll also ship you the physical book at this time.
and the Beta Chapters from upcoming books by O’Reilly – e.g. Skype Hacks