Every web application that comes out these days has a “Beta” next to it. This does make people more tolerant to errors or bugs they come across the site. However, with Google keeping many of it apps in “perpetual beta”, the term has some how been eroded of its value.
Just to point out, Google News, some time back quietly droped the “beta” meaning the application was stable and relatively bug free. However here is a screen shot of “Mini Me” with the Kraft business news.
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So it it out of Beta?
I was browsing the blogsphere and came across http://www.BlueDot.us. It is a social bookmarking site with a lot of AJAX and the ability to have links, representative thumbnails from the bookmarked page and ofcourse – tagging.
When I hit the site, it was a bit slow, but that is understandable given that they really were not ready for the kind of attention (they mentioned on their blog.) Good luck to them, hope they find what they are looking to achieve with the site.
Reminds me of 1999-2000, the entrepreneurial sprit never fails.