Look up! Have you noticed the beta badge on top of this site?, well just as you’re probably doing, so am I. I’m wondering what in the world does that mean. Some time ago somebody came up with the idea of describing the current web with the 2.0 “thing” and shortly after that somebody else decided to use the beta “thing” -I guess those were the Google folks-. However, now-a-days almost any site uses a beta or alpha or anything like it and we all wonder. Why?
Most of this sites never get improved or never really change from beta to final, some say it’s not a stable version, but if that was the case the site wouldn’t be working at all. If the site has a current version and later they ad some more functionality, that can’t be called a “beta” either, the site has only improved since those very first days.
Well, I could go on and on with this forever and never get to a straight line. I just wonder…
A nice site offering a nice -free- tool to generate those nice web 2.0 badges. For example, take a look at my “beta” badge (top of this site), it was generated with this tool.