Riding the Blog Flume

New services and features, especially free ones are great to have, but the perpetual Beta culture (even when the software isn’t in Beta they are getting monthly updates etc) has it’s downsides.  I have been following several products and services and the rapid improvement and enhanced feature lists are welcome on the poor or partly completed products.  The obvious example where this has not been the case was the Pace 810XE HD satellite receiver which has been crying out for firmware updates for over 2 years and effectively abandoned.  A case where being on a bigger bandwagon would certainly have been helpful.

Just recently Soocial has climbed out from Beta to a pay for model but now OSX has added Address Book to Gmail sync my main reason for using Soocial has gone.  As recently commented Nokia Sports Tracker has come out of Beta to be killed and re-born in the Ovi store.  The upside of rapid development comes when you have taken your eye off a particular ball for a while and on returning discover a lot of the old problems and issues have been fixed while your attention was elsewhere.  WordPress just keeps getting better and easier to use as can been clearly seen in version 3 and Boxee continues to develop.

This week having started looking for updates to things I haven’t possibly used in a month I find to a PS3 fireware update, iTunes 10, Tweetdeck and Adobe AIR.