Have you taken a look at http://www.codecademy.com/

Excellent idea and love the brand. Always great to hear about fellow aussies kicking butt.

Create scarcity by limiting the amount of beta invites available apposed to a setting a fixed time period.

I think it depends on the product - you need to be careful not to just annoy people so they go and find some other solution to their problem!

Fair point. I actually thought launch rock would have more on best practices for launch pages but couldn't find something http://launchrock.com/blog/category/bestpractices

It was the first place I looked for answers and haven't found nothing there.

I see.. associating with a referrals program that would reward those who bring more users to signing up.

By artificially limiting the number of invites, you get a finite number of individuals to work with and get feedback from during your beta.

I'm not sure the referrals program is always the solution you want. You should try to make sure the people who are coming to your site are qualified, otherwise Joe will ask Alice, Bob, and Charlie to join. Those 3 won't stay for any meaningful amount of time (blowing 3 of your slots), and Joe now has upgrades/perks/???. It's more desirable for you to have those 3 users giving you input.

However, there could be a time when you don't want to limit invites, such as when you need user generated content. Then the more beta users you have, the more content you have generated when you go "live".

Wow. Staggering results. Fantastic news for the team.

This was the previous press around the announcement http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/28/yuri-milner-sv-angel-offer-...

Yeah, good call. I had this article stored in Evernote http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/14/cisco-mobile-data-forecas...

I've moved away from sourcing news through multiple news apps like mashable to consuming all my tech news via a news aggregation app called pulse.

Have you tried http://www.codecademy.com/

I came across this article on collaborative consumption which was from late last year which may help http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020461250457660...

Thanks. Unfortunately not a lot of numbers in there. Just like always: a few examples of companies, but not good enough for investors...

I've sent an email to a friend who may have more insight and provided them with a link to your post.

Awesome! Thanks a lot!

I'm pumped about iOS 6.0 which is scheduled to be released in June. I was also always a big fan of the iSight camera.