Beta Push Startup Reviews

As Web 2.0 bloggers we are constantly reviewing startups for our readers. A new site called Beta Push is either trying to help us or kill us, I am not sure which. Beta push was created to allow developers and users to publish articles about their products. The site is a free sign up and also allows members to earn revenue from their Google Adsense accounts via their submitted articles.

Beta Push has an easy to use UI and a simple system for submitting and writing short reviews of startups in various categories. Like most new sites Beta Push is not overloaded with users yet, so content and submissions are not overwhelmingly abundant either. The addition of simple monetization for BP submitters will be attractive to Adsense account holders. The submission, comment and review aspects of this site are ideal for small startups and reviewers who are quick on their feet.

The "push" system is a simple voting utility that allows users to push their favorites to the forefront of the Beta Push pages and ratings. Categories are not limited to any one type of Beta and include: Shareware, Commercial Software, Open Source Scripts, Social Networks, Web Applications, Beta Sites, Gadgets, OS, Firefox Extensions, OSS and Freeware.

With some work Beta Push could be a top notch startup information and news site. At the moment there are not a great number of listings or users, but some of the sites and products "Pushed" are interesting and would be relatively obscure to the big blog machines. The key for Beta Push, as it is for all such sites, will be the way the system catches on. A large number of informed users would transform this simple utility into a valuable tool for news and community.

Sometimes simplicity makes a site easier to take advantage of, and Beta Push is the perfect platform for the ambitious Adsense person. I don't expect Beta Push to be putting prominent tech blogs out of business, but it is a great place for site developers to get some feedback and PR. Like so many more, BP just needs the community to take it to the next level.