December 17, 2005
Museum of Modern BETAs: Top 10 BETAs for 2005
Our friends over at Museum of Modern BETAs decided to launch a little survey, asking for submissions to the "Top 10 BETAs of the Year."Good idea, I thought. Everybody seems to love them there lists. I mean, some folks can't get enough of them.
But, unfortunately, the ol' MoMB must have been hurting for entries, because they came a knocking at my door, asking for my submission. Ack. You guys are kind of dragging the bottom of the barrel when you personally ask me to submit my entries. But, I appreciate a good ego stroke as much as the next blogger, so I quickly coalesced. Oh well, their loss.
So, without further ado, my submissions for the Top 10 BETAs of 2005...
- BorrowMe
I often wonder if there is anything more sad than an application that claims to be in BETA, not because they are testing the functionality, but because they keep slipping their release date. And then I decide that no, there is nothing more sad than that. Not even a velvet painting of a crying clown holding a puppy. An unreleased product is not a BETA. It isn't an ALPHA. It's a Web site. - MetaWishlist
There's nothing I like better than the completely unnecessary application of technology to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Especially when these folks probably make Amazon Associate fees on the whole deal. Bravo. - Yahoo! My Web 2.0
We all know how the true sign of a concept gaining general acceptance is when one of the big corporations starts using it. I mean, who could forget the unheralded success of WebTV? Web 2.0, you've come a long way baby. - Gradient Image Maker
Now, even the most incompetent Web designers can slap gradients all over their site. Viva la Web 2.0! - Remember the Milk
If I can't remember the milk, how, pray tell, am I going to remember the URL to the site that's going to help me remember the milk? - MashUpcoming
Gradients, reflections, glassy. Nuff said. - Dumbfind
Dumber Web 2.0 application. And ugly to boot. Tsk tsk. Please hit the Web 2.0 design checklist for some design tips. - PodDater
Um. Hmm. What's that? Yeah, me neither. Next! - AllYourWords
Does everything need a point? Clearly not. But if there's no point, why BETA? Just release, because no one will know if your application is broken or not. Repeat after me, "It's not a bug; it's a feature." Clearly, even they don't know why they came up with this concept. Can versus should, kids. Can versus should. - Web 2.0 Validator
Joke or not, any site that ranks hypocritical as more Web 2.0 than 37signals clearly needs to remain in BETA ad infinitum.
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Museum of Modern BETAs: Top 10 BETAs for 2005
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