tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220789492011-12-14T20:49:17.468-06:00Reviews for the average user on some of the more interesting Beta sites and softwareChris Penneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09123707582087000971noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22078949.post-1143036674049138532006-03-22T07:55:00.000-06:002006-03-22T08:11:14.103-06:00

I would be talking about to sites I came across, Beggr.com and Wankr. Both these sites are small and simple(ly making a mock of the whole web 2.0 movement).Lets start with Beggr.com (http://www.beggr.com). Right now it is curently in its beta 2 release. The change from there first release is stated as '... this one is 2.0, beta and has a shinier logo.' The point of this site is '.. all about

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http://mars.google.comGoogle Maps goes to Mars. When you first load the page you get to see a stunning view of the martian landscape and are able to search around like you can on Google Maps.There are three different views you can choose from. 'Elevation' (which is the default view) map is color-coded by altitude, so you can use the color key at the lower left to estimate elevations, 'Visible'

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http://ideas.live.com/The new release (beta 2) of Windows Live Messenger is out and what can I say. They got rid of most of the new things they which they added to beta 1 thatmore annoying than useful. The only thing now is like every other release of Msn Messenger there is not a whole difference.The only really interesting function is still the Shared Folder, which allows you to set up a folder

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http://www.cocomment.com/Ever get sick of not being able to keep track of your comments or finding yourself checking back to the same site to see if anyone responded? With coComment you don't have to because it stores all your comments in one place.How it works is you'll add a simple bookmarklet to your browser and whenever you make comments on another blog, you'll do so using this bookmarklet.

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http://preview.local.live.com/Microsoft Live Local just launch a preview version of an addition onto there Virtual Earth called Steet Side. They already out did other mapping services by there birds-eye view (in select cities) but now are taking the view even lower. With Steet Side you get a street-level view through the windshield of a sports car, racing car or a walking view.How does

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http://box.netBox.net is relaunching there services with a new bright AJAX shell and very affordable service. For the people who don't know what Box.net is, it is a web 2.0 online storage website which allows you to store and/or backup your important files.The basic account has a 1 gigabyte of storage, with a 5 MB file size limit and you are able to share those files privately with your friends.

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http://www.fold.comFold.com is a typical AJAX application with a Ruby on Rails / MySQL back end. All it pretty much is, is another web 2.0 start page not unlike Protopage, Goowy, Netvibes, Google IG and all the other similar sites out there. The creator, Axel Wolf, just recently retired and found a lot of free time on his hands so decided to build this site.There is a lot of functionality

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http://ma.gnolia.comMa.gnolia.com one of the newest social bookmarking websites, with. the goal to help people pursue their interest of making information accessible; giving old information a new life by providing new ways of finding and sharing it in a way that is individualized and personally relevant.Todd Sieling, Ma.gnolia’s Product Manager, explains “From the beginning, we felt that

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www.30boxes.comWith all the talk of the supposed launch of Google Calendar, which is still undetermined if it is even going to exist, 30boxes.com steps up and takes the role. What is it exactly? Well to put it simple it is just an online calendar. Why should you care? Well because it does a bit more than a regular calendar. One of its biggest features, which seems to be a huge with all Web 2.0

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And yes that means YOU! At first glance and a little fooling around with it, its looks little promising. At this point I would never switch from Firefox, but it does have some nice features and clean interface. It launches and runs pretty fast and the pages come out looking pretty damn good in it. Finally my websites looks like it should be in internet explorer. I don't take as

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www.Newsvine.comFor the few that haven't heard about this already, newsvine is a news media site that gives the news directly to you. It is a community of users that can post stories, tag stories, comment on stories, chat with others, write news and add links, and a lot more. You get you own column and get to post stories as they happen, bringing journalism to the people. Sounds a little like the

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I happened across I way to download the new Live Messenger (beta) and test it out. At first glance it doesn't appear to be much different but with a more in depth look you start to see more and more features. One of the newest and coolest feature is the 'Shared Folder'. What it does is enables you to set up shared folders with a individual contact, quite similar to the shared folder

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