Beta Everything
December 19, 2006 Posted by Al Castle
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Categories: Insider, PRWeb, gnash-teeth
This post is primarily for clarification of those obnoxious co-workers about the status of PRWebs archive and search engine - Newspad.
Tis true, I’ll readily admit that Newspad has room for improvement. However I’d like to point out to those that have trouble reading English, right there in the logo it says ‘Beta‘. Primarily we put that there so that I can use it as an all-purpose escape clause for not having perfectly running software. I would have used the word Yahoo! or Windows, but apparently those names are trademarked by other companies who also provide software that doesn’t work right all the time.
Newspad is actually a second generation tool. The original code was licensed from some search engine company (which I shan’t name), which worked rather poorly if at all. Now some of you may joke that we’re still using it. And to that I respond with nay. We are rolling our own, a little bit of this, a swab of that, more RAM over here and dual cores there. The current Newspad implementation has been a continual process of minor tweaks and improvements over the last year. As long time users should note, all sorts of little things have crept in this last year. Such as the Beta Image search of PRWebPhotowire content, the iframe previews, PDF links, and of course a Help FAQ.
Despite it’s quirks, or “unexpected features” Newspad has served millions of hits a month, generating and supplying countless news readers, meta search engines, websites and blogs with dynamically updated content via RSS 2.0 feeds.
In fact expect some serious improvements not only in functionality and reliability but in overall coolness for Newspad in 2007. PRWeb has grown in features, services and functionality since the inception of this second generation of Newspad. With that in mind, along with customer feedback, bug fixes and general brainstorming the third generation will be a marked improvement.
And yes, it too will be Beta.
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Newspad to improve? Is this deja vu? I swear I heard this several months ago, and a month before that…and a month before that…and…
Beta= Programmers pleading the Fifth Amendment
Much Love. -Paolo.
As I said, there have been many minor additions and improvements.
A year ago is when we went to the second custom version. So yes it’s deja vu in that you haven’t paid attention to the enhancements.
Some however are in the code on the back end to better filter out releases that have been updated, deleted and so on, which aren’t as obvious to spot.