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Unfinished in Perpetuity?
By Trevor | May 21, 2007
YouGetIt.com, the recently-launched application that combines the functionality of virtually every other social media application on the net along with a strong emphasis on local search and local economies, is a product that is still in “beta”. I used to work for EA, and beta for that company is a very different sort of event than the beta for YouGetIt is. At EA, beta was the final push to get a product out of the door, fix everything at the last moment, make sure that it is as good as it can be, because there’s no going back once the game is being printed. Beta is the term used to state that a product is functional, but maybe all of the bugs haven’t quite been worked out yet. It may be ugly, but it gets the job done, generally. The full feature set is there, plus or minus a few extras that would be nice.
Internet applications have a very different beta, though. Indeed, as Tim O’Reilly—the man who coined the term “Web 2.0”—puts it, truly web 2.0 products are always in beta. Unlike physical media applications, like OS’es or video games, it’s simple to make changes to the product after it’s released. Which is a good thing, because as many great features as YouGetIt.com has, and as many great comments as we’ve gotten from users who visit our site, we’ve gotten a ton of feature requests, both from inside the company and outside. They range from the simple to the complex, and while we will certainly not implement all of the suggestions that we’ve gotten—even some of the really good ones that we wish we could—it is still amazing to see the influence that our users wield on how the site is shaping up.
That’s one of the neat things about being a user of YouGetIt right now. The involvement with the community that is managed by our Community Director, Dave, and by our development team as well has really created a party of users who are also testers and producers.
So we have the little beta tag next to our site’s logo. How long will that last? Well, the logo will be up for a while. But you can take it from us here at Web2Corp: we’ll always be improving YouGetIt, and the rest of our properties, too. Even when the beta tag comes down, we’ll still be looking for new features and listening to our users. Call it perpetual beta, kaizen, whatever you want to, it’s all about making the end product better.
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May 21st, 2007 at 4:31 pm
I would suggest to submit these web 2.0 Applications in question to http://www.Listio.com and let others try and vote on them. See what others have to say!
May 24th, 2007 at 11:17 am
What’s going on with the stock?!?!?
May 25th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
thats a good question, whats going on? the last few days, there is only one direction –> down! why?
May 28th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Gentlemen,
Unfortunately, many who follow companies like ours (small cap OTCBB) in the beginning think the value in the opportunity are short/near term. When in fact, this company has divested in 3 high exposure tech products which upon completion of development cycle will now evolve through normal/customary traditional marketing, sales, and support channels. Those who invest in the story of “what we are about” usually get in early and leave early. You are seeing that turnover at this moment. It is those next three steps/channels of growth that will define what we are and/or will become. Contrary to belief their are not long lines of VC’s standing around with $100M checks waiting on the next thing to buy-out. In fact, those eyeballs start looking only after a company starts to see traction. Our investors from here forward will be serious investors, who understand the value of what our products represent to the online consumer marketplace. More importantly, how that will translate into future earnings per share.
Best Regards,
Bill