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The Museum of Modern Betas

You know we're living in a beta world, and I am a beta girl guy. It seems that we're constantly hearing announcements about "The Next Big Thing" to reach private beta and how totally awesome it is - and then the waiting game begins. True to boom form, most of the services never actually make it public (I'm currently wearing a shirt advertising Life IO, which was supposed to launch in September.)

The Museum of Modern Betas chronicles the 50 most anticipated upcoming services as measured by how often they show up on del.icio.us. Topping the list is Scrybe, which Jason wrote about back in October.

[via UXMagazine]

Filed under: Web services

Betas of the Year

BetaThe Museum of Modern Betas, a site that tracks web apps with the ubiquitous "beta" appellation, have posted their Betas of the Year for 2005. The winners are Writely, Flickr, and Netvibes; check out the list for some stellar runners-up. For some similar round-ups (though not guarateed to be "beta"), check out our previous post about the Best Web 2.0 Software and Most Innovate Web 2.0 Apps.

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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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