Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
A Call for Revolution Against Beta Culture  —  I'm tired of this.  This sense of permanent discomfort with the technology around me.  The bugs.  The compromises.  The firmware upgrades.  The “This will work in the next version.”  The “It's in our roadmap.”  The “Buy now and upgrade later.”

I'm tired of this. This sense of permanent discomfort with the technology around me. The bugs. The compromises. The firmware upgrades. The "This will work in the next version." The "It's in our roadmap." The "Buy now and upgrade later." The patches. The new low development standards that make technology fail because it wasn't tested enough before reaching our hands. The feeling now extends to hardware: Everything is built to end up in the trash a year later, still half-baked, to make room for the next hardware revision. I'm tired of this beta culture that has spread like metastatic cancer in the last few years, starting with software from Google and others and ending up in almost every gadget and computer system around. We need a change.

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/beta-liberty.jpg" width="525" height="412" style="display:block;" //p div style='float:right; margin-left:-9px;'script type="text/javascript" digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/A_Call_for_Revolution_Against_Beta_Culture'; /scriptscript src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript" /script/div pI'm tired of this. This sense of permanent discomfort with the technology around me. The bugs. The compromises. The firmware upgrades. The "This will work in the next version." The "It's in our roadmap." The "Buy now and upgrade later." The patches. The new low development standards that make technology fail because it wasn't tested enough before reaching our hands. The feeling now extends to hardware: Everything is built to end up in the trash a year later, still half-baked, to make room for the next hardware revision. I'm tired of this beta culture that has spread like metastatic cancer in the last few years, starting with software from Google and others and ending up in almost every gadget and computer system around. We need a change./p pTake the iPhone, for example, one of the most successful products in the history of consumer electronics. We like it, I love mine, but the fact is that the first generation was rushed out, a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/no-bs-iphone-review-276116.php"lacking basic features/a that were added in later releases or a href="http://gizmodo.com/5083116/iphone-22-release-just-10-days-away"are not here yet/a. Worse: The a href="http://gizmodo.com/5047372/iphone-21-update-coming-friday-less-call-drops-crashes-faster-sync-better-battery-life"iPhone 3G was really broken/a. For real. Bad signal, dropped calls, frozen apps. This would have been unthinkable in cellphones just five years ago. They were simpler, for sure, but they were failure proof. Today's engineering and testing is a lot more sophisticated. In theory, products can't go out into distribution with such glaring problems undetected./p pAnother recent example is my iMac 24, which had the infamous a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/imac/ati-graphics-may-be-at-the-root-of-imac-freezing-issues-307409.php"video card problem/a out of the box. How can a machine with such an obvious problem—instantly detected by the user base—be sold like that? The same happened recently with a href="http://gizmodo.com/5061605/apple-confirms-failing-nvidia-graphics-cards-in-macbook-pros-offers-free-repairs-and-refunds"Nvidia video boards/a. In fact, graphic cards—being always in the cutting edge of technology—are perfect examples of beta hardware being sold as final hardware, with many released with beta-quality drivers and requiring firmware patches./p pFrom that to the now-universally-accepted Blue Screen of Death, from a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/movies/problems-with-blu+rays-bd+j-spec-causes-headaches-for-early-adopters-266923.php"buggy Blu-ray players/a to a href="http://gizmodo.com/5064742/microsoft-sued-over-xbox-360-rrod-issues"the Xbox 360's red ring of death/a and a href="http://gizmodo.com/367611/playstation-3-217-update-brings-bug-fixes-hard-drive-installation"PS3's bugs/a, even from a href="http://www.turbochef.com/residential/service/oven-firmware-updates.aspx"kitchen ovens/a to a href="http://gizmodo.com/356092/nikon-d300-firmware-update"faulty DSLR cameras/a, the list of troubled products is endless. Just this week, the eagerly anticipated BlackBerry Storm launched to a href="http://gizmodo.com/5094371/10-takes-on-the-blackberry-storm"mixed reviews/a, in part because of its crashy, apparently unfinished software./p pOn the other side, my parents have a Telefunken CRT TV and a Braun radio from the '70s which are still in working condition. They were first generation. They never failed. Compare that to my first plasma TV from Philips, which broke after less than a year of use. Mine wasn't the only one. The technology was too young to be released; it was still in beta state. Philips wanted to be the first in the world with a flat TV and beat the competition, so they released it. This probably wasn't a good move: Today, Philips' TV business is struggling, and is a href="http://gizmodo.com/377355/philips-wont-sell-tvs-in-north-america-anymore"nonexistent in the US/a. Meanwhile, my Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Apple IIe from the 1980s still work like they did from day one, perfectly./p pFor sure, today's products are far more complex than those of 20 or 30 years ago. But back then, the manufacturing was also a lot worse. It was less automated, often purely manual, and imperfect. Today, in a world where automated factories run 24/7, there's less chance of error. Yet still, there are countless problems in the final products, and those problems affect every unit in an entire model line. In the age of manufacturing perfection, there are still major recalls concerning products that a href="http://gizmodo.com/5067386/rage-wireless-guitar-leaks-acid-can-burn-your-rock-jewels"burn/a or a href="http://gizmodo.com/5052568/apple-recalls-ultracompact-usb-power-adapter-for-the-iphone-3g"break/a./p pClearly, the problem is the development process and the time to market, with product cycles shortened and corners cut to keep a continuous stream of cash flowing in. The rush to feed these cycles with increasingly more complex engineering seems to be at odds with shortened development and quality assurance processes, resulting in beta-state first-generation products. This beta culture, the same one that already plagues the web, breeds people who are willing to accept bugs in the name of cutting-edge gear./p pWho's to blame? Google and their web apps? Apple and their iPhone 3G problems? Microsoft and their countless buggy versions of operating systems and the Xbox 360's RROD? Philips? Sony? Samsung? LG? We all are. The manufacturers, who are driven by a thirst to expand and satisfy their shareholders at all costs. The consumers, who are so thirsty to drink in the shiniest, newest technology that they are willing to sacrifice stability. And the press too, who pours more gasoline onto the consumerism bonfire by writing glowing reviews and often minimizing things that are simply not acceptable./p pPersonally, I'm tired of all this. But I'm mostly tired about the fact that it seems that we all have given up. Tired because a href="http://gizmodo.com/5070154/why-its-safer-than-ever-to-buy-first+generation-hardware"now we see "upgrades" as an opportunity to protect our investment/a, but in reality, it's laziness and a poor job on the manufacturer part that we have accepted without questioning. Instead of calling foul play and refusing to participate, we keep buying./p pThat's the key: We have surrendered in the name of progress and marketing and product cycles and consumerism. Maybe those are good reasons, I don't know, but looking at the past, it feels like we are being conned. Deceived because the manufacturers of electronic products have taken our desire to progress faster and even embrace the web beta culture as an excuse to rush things to market, to blatantly admit bugs and the rushed features sets and sell the patches as upgrades./p pMaybe the recession will put some order in this thirst of new stuff and change the product cycles. As the economy slows down, people will think twice before buying the latest and greatest; they'll keep older hardware for longer. Then, manufacturers will have to rethink their product lines, and lift their feet from the accelerator, which will result on slower cycles and better products. Maybe that's our ticket for better electronics that actually make sense./p pOr maybe... maybe that will be another excuse for the manufacturer to cut even more corners and keep lowering prices so that consumers keep spending and ending up with worse products than we have now./p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=c3e455c3677a43b80709099d95624e7cp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=c3e455c3677a43b80709099d95624e7cp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=c3e455c3677a43b80709099d95624e7c" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=RvVWNmt4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=3tnPs2JD"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=8syG9UpF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=8syG9UpF" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=NKPoFVUd"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=NKPoFVUd" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/fCpCo4ktygQ" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/phenom2.jpg" width="800" height="370" style="display:block;float:none;" /From AMD's upcoming a href="http://gizmodo.com/5086703/amds-upcoming-conesus-netbook-chip-wont-stoop-to-mid-levels"chip/a a href="http://gizmodo.com/5045354/amd-processor-roadmap-leaked-online-quad+core-deneb-phenoms-in-january"roadmaps/a we know the Phenom II is due out early next year, and it's AMD's second 45nm chip, but in a recent show and tell session AMD demonstrated the "overhead" built into the chip by overclocking one to a crazy 5GHz. It did take a special CO2 sublimation cooling unit that carries the danger of suffocating you if you use it in a small room, but what the hey. With a liquid nitrogen cooling system the chip was easily pushed way over 5 gigs. You may think "yeah, I could overclock anything with that stuff!" but it should be noted that with fairly normal high-end air-cooling the chips could get up to 4GHz. It'll be interesting to watch AMD's battle with Intel's i7 play out. [a href="http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=6455"PCPerspective/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=16033138557e822c148abc6a68d6814dp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=16033138557e822c148abc6a68d6814dp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=16033138557e822c148abc6a68d6814d" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=yFXiPuj5"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=HWypgUcD"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=9R53xoGb"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=9R53xoGb" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=DA5hj5S4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=DA5hj5S4" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/jzEVp4-2BJE" height="1" width="1"/

div align="center"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/sfbay_bridge_betterplace.jpg" /br //div Need another reason to live in America's other bastion of social liberalism and homelessness? How about a $1 billion electric vehicle re-charging infrastructure in the Bay Area? Palo Alto's a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/better%20place"Better Place/a is finally bringing its ambitious, city-wide electrical grid and battery exchange service home after staking plans to do the same in Israel, Denmark, and Australia. The plan just endorsed by the San Jose, Oakland, and San Francisco Mayors (without coughing up any money), is expected to result in 250,000 charging ports (for topping off charges), 200 battery-swap stations (for trips over 100 miles), and a driver service center by 2012 -- network planing and permitting will begin in 2009 with infrastructure deployment set to kickoff in 2010. Here's how it works, customers will receive a discounted price on electric vehicles when they subscribe to drive a certain number of miles -- Better Place will own the batteries. Besides clearing the way of government bureaucracy, the mayors have agreed to offer incentives for companies that install the plug-in stations. Now get this, Better Place expects to lure electric vehicles from the usual suspects like Toyota, Renault-Nissan, and GM in addition to, get this, a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/tesla%20motors"Tesla Motors/a. Oh yes. Almost makes us want to hug an Upper Haight, teenage, poser hippie. Almost.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11032113?source=rss"San Jose Mercury News/a]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/transportation/" rel="tag"Transportation/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/better-places-1-billion-electric-vehicle-grid-endorsed-by-bay/"Better Place's $1 billion electric vehicle grid headed to Bay Area/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:06:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.betterplace.com/press-room/press-releases-detail/21st-century-initiative-in-california-defines-roadmap-for-sustainable-trans/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/better-places-1-billion-electric-vehicle-grid-endorsed-by-bay/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1379183/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/better-places-1-billion-electric-vehicle-grid-endorsed-by-bay/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/91POSvG2cIrVc0Cj6uKOXG3L22I/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/91POSvG2cIrVc0Cj6uKOXG3L22I/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=Yw4ojJZM"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=Yw4ojJZM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=ypEeE9oN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=ypEeE9oN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/pkjwClcBKvs" height="1" width="1"/

ul lia href="http://daringfireball.net/2008/11/google_mobile_uses_private_iphone_apis"Daring Fireball: Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIs/abr/ Fascinating analysis of how the new Google Mobile voice command uses undocumented iPhone APIs. It seems like unfair advantage and Google is getting special treatment on the platform. Definitely makes Android seem friendlier for and fairer for app devs, who create most of the value on a platform anyway. But Android is Google too, isn#039;t it. ;-)/li lia href="http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2086"Why an Economic Crisis Could Be the Right Time for Companies to Engage in 'Disruptive Innovation' - Knowledge@Wharton/abr/ An excellent new take from Wharton on how to make disruptive innovation happen (and what often holds it back.) A good roadmap and overview for those that need to navigate their organizations through the shoals of transformative times. Keep in mind that the hardest part to accept about innovation is that it rarely comes from where you think it will (or even where you think it should come from.)/li /ul

pimg alt="TypePad" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/imgTypePad.jpg" width="150" height="48" /Today, a href="http://www.sixapart.com/"Six Apart/a is launching three new features for a href="http://www.typepad.com/"TypePad/a: enhanced TypePad profiles, a new commenting system, and a href="http://www.typepad.com/connect/"TypePad Connect/a, a no-cost combination of services that promises to make participating in and managing communities easier for bloggers on a variety of platforms - not just those offered by Six Apart./p pFor users familiar with the Six Apart family of products, the profiles will be a welcome step forward from the original TypeKey implementation and the new commenting features offer functionality users have come to expect from commenting systems. But it's TypePad Connect - or more appropriately the a href="http://www.sixapart.com/blog/2008/11/typepad-connect-profiles-and-comments-for-everyone.html"vision for what TypePad Connect could be/a - that makes this announcement interesting./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12670amp;cb=12670' target='_blank'img src='http://d.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=861amp;cb=12670amp;n=12670' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p h2So What Is It?/h2 pAccording to Six Apart, TypePad Connect "makes community management easier for bloggers with the ability to track, moderate and respond to comments across multiple sites and blogs from one dashboard or via email." In other words, it's your lifestream and your blog conversations - be they on your blog or someone else's - all in one spot./p centerembed width="500" height="353" flashvars="width=500amp;height=353amp;file=http://www.typepad.com/images/connect/tpc-demo-2.flvamp;image=http://www.typepad.com/images/connect/tpc-demo-2.jpgamp;displayheight=500amp;searchbar=falseamp;usefullscreen=false" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" src="http://www.sixapart.com/video/player.swf"/embed/center pAt first blush, TypePad Connect may appear to be a reactionary response to services like a href="http://intensedebate.com/"IntenseDebate/a, a href="http://disqus.com/"Disqus/a, and a href="http://backtype.com"Backtype/a - possibly even a href="http://friendfeed.com"FriendFeed/a. Services that have all but usurped the conversations that once were the domain of individual blogs./p pAnd maybe in some ways, it is. But there's clearly something else happening here. /p pIf it lives up to its promise, TypePad Connect has the potential to combine both popular lifestreaming features and comment-aggregation features under one user profile. And with an open approach, they could do it in a way that allows users to begin to experience the promise of the distributed social Web. /p h2Vision/h2 pWhen it comes to understanding the social Web, SixApart definitely has vision. The company sprung from the early days of blogging, launching one of the first major blogging platforms. They were the birthplace of a href="http://openid.net"OpenID/a, a single digital identity that has continued to a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_is_now_an_openid_provider.php"gain support/a throughout the online community. Members of the company remain deeply involved in a number of efforts driving the social Web today./p pThis move toward a distributed social presence falls right in line with their previous efforts. Like other services with "Connect" in their names - a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_connect_coming_soon_t.php"Facebook Connect/a and a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_friend_connect_manages.php"Google Friend Connect/a - TypePad Connect has a grand vision of moving personally relevant content outside the proprietary constructs of specific blogs - or even of Six Apart, itself - and making it useful and accessible to other services. /p pIn other words, the same way that Facebook Connect, for example, offers other sites access to your Facebook profile information - saving you the time of establishing yet another profile on yet another service that replicates the information you already have stored elsewhere - TypePad Connect offers other blogs easy access to your profile. And in return, you get the ability to manage all of the comments you make from one spot. Your profile is no longer beholden to a blog or service, it's available to be distributed./p pEmbracing the concept of community that has the ability to exist and live outside the walls of a given blog or proprietary product is definitely a step in the right direction. (For that matter, it doesn't take a huge intuitive leap to see the value of having a TypePad Connect profile as the endpoint for an OpenID URL.) TypePad Connect could be another step toward the realization of a truly distributed social Web./p h2Current Reality/h2 pEven in its current beta iteration, the offering has some definite benefits. Things like simplified avatar management, lifestreaming of multiple services under one profile, and comment management features from a central dashboard will be appealing to many existing Six Apart customers and will likely attract new users, as well./p centerimg alt="TypePad Connect" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/imgTypePadConnect.jpg" width="600" height="470" //center pBut as with any beta offering, there are some downsides and a href="http://sitehome.typepad.com/connect/2008/11/known-issues-li.html"issues/a. /p pIronically, one of the current issues with TypePad Connect is a href="http://support.typepad.com/cgi-bin/typepad.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1329p_created=1226373072p_sid=tabrHpjjp_lva=p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MjAmcF9wcm9kcz0mcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3BhZ2U9MSZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PWNvbm5lY3Q*p_li=p_topview=1"comment management/a. Even though comments are not stuck on a specific blog, comments are still stuck within TypePad Connect. Allowing users to export comments is on the roadmap, but in the beta version, all comments are currently being held on the TypePad Connect servers. That's a concern. /p pThere's also the opposite problem: there's currently no way to import comments into TypePad Connect. That means if you're starting a blog from scratch, you'll be fine, but if you're adding TypePad Connect to an existing blog, you're going to have an old comment database and a new one. So you'll be managing two sets of comments./p pThat said, it's a beta. It's expected to have flaws./p h2Verdict/h2 pTypePad Connect definitely has a vision for a far more grand offering than the current beta. No doubt, pressure - be that pressure from users asking for the functionality or pressure from competitors like Automattic (which has begun to amalgamate the ingredients for a similar offering with a href="http://en.gravatar.com/"Gravatar/a and IntenseDebate) - necessitated Six Apart moving sooner rather than later. /p pBut when it comes right down to it, it's the vision in which I believe. I think Six Apart has a chance to provide a compelling solution for a common problem, even if they're not quite there yet. And once they begin to get closer to that vision, it could change the way we think about managing our conversations online./p pVision aside, would I implement this solution today? To be honest, I'd be hesitant to adopt TypePad Connect on an existing blog until some of the beta kinks are worked out. But if I were starting a new blog today? TypePad Connect would definitely be in the running for my centralized commenting system - even though I wouldn't be starting that blog on one of Six Apart's platforms./p pIf you're interested in trying it, a href="http://www.typepad.com/connect/"TypePad Connect/a offers native support for Blogger, Movable Type 3.x and 4.x, Tumblr, TypePad, WordPress.org 2.0 and higher. It can also support any other installation with a chunk of javascript. 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