Comments on: The velvet rope: 10 exclusive tech betas

Remember when the private beta was something special? We do. Here are 10 sites that brought it back in the past two years.

[fattowny]

If you want a real private beta, go to the private development mirror site of bueno.com. It is way cooler than that worthless Google Grand Central phone card site. Unfortunately I am not allowed to tell you the web address.

[moucon]

thanx, *********.

[pjscullion]

World of Warcraft had a lengthy public beta. And that's more important than ANY of the betas you listed, except for Hulu. Hulu never killed anyone, but people are dying of exhaustion playing WoW!

[Spartan_458]

I'd say Trillian Astra from this list, but the Halo 3 multiplayer beta was pretty sweet, too.

[Eddie-c]

Section MS Bing ... "public rollout in early Jine.". You guys use spell-check at all? ;)

[Josh.Lowensohn]

Nah, it's overrated. Thanks, just fixed.

What about Digsby? way better chat client than trillian astra, in my opinion.

[sciontcya]

Or AppleSeed.

[Mr. Dee]

Where is Windows 7 on the list? That's probably the hottest beta to be in. Well, a lot of persons only want to be in it in hope of getting a freebie at the end.

[meh100]

They said "private beta". Windows 7 had a public beta and now a public release candidate.

[timber2005]

Too many patterns in the tech betas.
2 google
3 search engines
2 streaming sites

Then again that is pretty much what the latest things are.

[CDSRV]

OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2

http://blogs.sun.com/ec2/entry/welcome_to_opensolaris_on_amazon

[saur_abh]

Otherinbox is missed out

[dohmm]

hey throw digsby up there its a hell lot easier to use than astra that was in alpha for how many years??