TEO Beta, the good news and the bad news

Fri, Apr 21, 2006 @ 6:55 AM - Josh Einstein

The good news is that I have put together a beta registration page where you can now “officially” register for the beta program. The bad news is, I barely got this up in time and had no time to implement trial functionality. So quite simply, this means that until I get a trial version of this built, only registered users can use the beta. Non-customers will have to use the TEO 2.0 trial.

Did you do this on purpose to get more people to buy TEO 2.0?

Yes and no. Yes TEO 2.0 sales have taken a significant dive since I released the 3.0 beta. This is not the only reason for the dive. Tablet PC Buzz's advertising system also broke down apparently permanently indefinitely (sorry, wrong choice of words) and so I stopped advertising there. Also my posts in the newsgroup have been down so my overall visibility is at an all time low.

But, I did really want to get a TEO 3.0 trial mode out because I want to start blasting out notifications.

I've spent the last week or so working on a replacement for the XHEO licensing component I used in TEO 2.x and the recent 3.0 betas. It's coming along great, but I still have some work to do on the activation server. I'm also putting together the new web site.

So anyway, TEO customers can register now for the 3.0 beta (all future beta users must register) at the following URL.

http://www.einsteintech.net

This is going to be the new site but as you can see there are many links that don't work. But you should be able to register. So sorry for the shoddy appearance but it was either a) let people access the half done site or b) fend off angry emails about expired betas for another few days.