Get Your gnoos Beta Invite

My engineering team told me we are having a beta period for gnoos.com.au mid this week and asked me to find some mules to go to Bali. Well I can't promise you a kg'd up boogie board but I may be able to help you waste (minutes) from your (paid or startup) day.

You know the drill - You send us an email; We send you a password back; You test what we've developed, and a few percent send us bug reports. We then respond : "duh, we already knew that. u r using the old version." (my last fortnight)

No, we really want to see if it breaks ! This RSS thing and his 6 little friends isn't as structured data-wise as you might think. And blogs : What a mess ! Everyone thinks they are a coder. (not me) We will need to follow a strict embargo policy though - You are only able to write about gnoos if you feel like it, and only after you have a written letter of consent from your parents. Oh yeah baby :P

In order to filter the respondents from 23 to a manageable 5-6 I have developed a multiple choice question before the Red Carpet on the Logies start, and Father Bob comes on the transistor.

THE BETA TESTERS' MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONNAIRE FOR GNOOS

What Sort of Beta Tester are You Psychographically ?

A. Beta Invites are soooo Web 2.0. You ask me for my email, then months later you send me an automated email with a password (or sometimes just the URL itself !) allowing me access to an unfinished site because you read Web 2.0 is all about shipping early and often. I'll read techcrunch instead.

B. Linkedin/Skype Connections/Beta. You are a modern networker who has the read the seminal post : "10 Ways to Suck Up to VC's : Why I bought an Ice-Hockey Team as a Goodwill Gesture to impress a Prospective VC."

C. Do Absolutely Fck'g Nothing : You are a connected cat, and gnoos needs you more than you need gnoos. Anyway, you know Beta's suck. And anyway doesnt beta like mean 'public', and a password protected site is an alpha ? "Ping me when it's ready dude."

Epilogue : I'm moving onto Web 3.0 (or maybe Web 3.1) so if you wish to passively or actively communicate through the various open platforms and API's that have been established in the last few years, please feel free. I wish to concentrate more on my Kangaroo Meat Wholesaling Business which has been experiencing rapid viral growth due to google referrals through a recent change in the PageRank algorithm. Thankyou all for being of so little and soo much help over the year and I'll be pinging you all in order of monetary, algorithmic and postmodern importance throughout the week so I can get back to the slaughtering of low hanging fruit.