Posts Tagged with ‘beta’

Back in February of this year, we brought you a bit of a review of a nifty Web-based photo editor called Picnik (we compared it to Snipshot, another quality offering on the Net), which has in roughly six months’ time made itself more or less into the starling of its genre. It’s attractive, it’s reasonably powerful, and allows for quick importing and exporting to/from numerous photo-hosting services. In short, it’s a wonderful invention, and one more and more [...]

My good friend Dr. Riza Berkan just clued me in to a new comparative feature at hakia where users can test hakia against various search engines side-by-side. This feature has been on the hakia site for a little while but Riza and hakia have not publicized it and I thought our readers would be interested. Hakia has been under the radar fora little while now, so I was really glad to get a note from Riza and some cool news [...]

News reports from throughout the tech world are out about Yahoo!’s release of its new Mail application from beta. Problem is, it’s not out of beta. Not yet, at least.
Log in to the service (first debuted in September ’06) and you find the ‘Beta’ tag still fit snug right below the logo. Why’s it still there? Well, the company’s going to perform a sort of worldwide “rollout”. According to Elinor Mills of CNET’s Webware blog, it’s going to happen over [...]

Profy is building something exciting for the tech-savvy crowd. The Profy development team is at work on a very large-scale Web 2.0 project to be launched in public beta later this year. It's an advanced blogging platform with an integrated powerful RSS reader enhanced by social featured. The application will drastically change the way we blog and read our news.
At the moment, the product is in strictly private beta and we're looking for a strong team of early testers [...]

Yippykya is a new social networking site that has been in beta since June. The startup allows users to make money, find friends and get discovered as artists. I signed up for the service some time ago and have watched the user base expand substantially. John Reger CEO of Yippykya envisioned a site where branding and retail techniques could help budding artists. Socialization and personal discoverability are the heart of this funny and interesting artist discovery site. Yippy has launched their communiy in Houston, but other [...]

I seem to be developing a specialty here writing about online polling sites. The latest entrant into the space is SubmitYourVote, a new social polling site with a very pretty interface.
SubmitYourVote has all the hallmarks of a Web 2.0 site: logo with beta status, minimalist site design, and, of course, the social aspect of creating your own polls, voting on other polls, commenting and tagging of polls, and a nifty Ajax feature that takes your polling results and places them [...]

Everyone has his/her own thing. Music. Movies. Sports. Extreme sports. Even knitting. Yes, knitting. The practice that involves massive needles, lots of colorful thread, and a great deal of patience – not to mention a good old wooden rocking chair (to all the knitters out there among the our readership, I kid, honestly I do) – is a hobby for some and still an occupation for a few. Some say their numbers are growing, too. Which is nice, because anything [...]

We all know what notification systems are, right? Most web users come across and use notification systems constantly, whether they are entering their email address into a short form to be updated on the latest happenings at a website or trying to be notified when a new web service opens for beta testing or public use. There is one small problem here, that can be a setback for many people. The only way of receiving those handy notifications is to [...]

If you are an ad publisher who has been waiting for a way to bring revenue to your mobile phone-capable website, Scott over at the Self Made Minds blog has announced Google Adsense for Mobile is currently in beta stage and undergoing testing. Up until now, there was really only one option with the service AdMob, but Google’s entry into the mobile advertising market is setting out to change that.
AdMob has been available for mobile publishers for over a [...]