socialmedian alpha stats update, june 12 2008

We wrote our first line of code on February 6, 2008.

We shipped our first alpha on March 3, 2008 and we've been adding new features just about every other day since, as we respond to feedback from our alpha users.

We add new alpha users regularly as we digest feedback from current alpha users and then bring on some more users to test the newer features with.  We had about 50 alpha users at end of March, 500 at end of April, 2300 at end of May.

There are now 3357 alpha users.  We hope to move from alpha to beta in about 4-6 weeks.  We need to finish some more features first.

Our primary vehicle for issuing alpha invites is via Twitter, where we release new invites every Tuesday.  Most of the last 2000 registrants have come via our twitter tweeted invites.

socialmedian users can create News Networks on any topic.

Our 3357 users have created 807 News Networks on topics big and small.

Some of our most recent member-created News Networks include:

the Fred Wilson News Network

SMU FOOTBALL

Tony Romo

prescription drugs and suicide

Asthma

Socialutions

Ace goes to the movies - 2008

The most popular news networks on socialmedian are:

Web 2.0 Created by: Sunil on Feb 15, 2008 Users: 1033 Sources: 87 Stories in 24 hours: 89

Tech News Created by: Nishith on Feb 15, 2008 Users: 626 Sources: 90 Stories in 24 hours: 364

social media watch Created by: Jasongoldberg on Feb 12, 2008 Users: 584 Sources: 56 Stories in 24 hours: 146

Social Networking Created by: Ajayagrawal on Feb 15, 2008 Users: 509 Sources: 30 Stories in 24 hours: 78 Join

twitter Created by: Jasongoldberg on Mar 29, 2008 Users: 351 Sources: 42 Stories in 24 hours: 17

Campaign 2008 Created by: Jasongoldberg on Feb 17, 2008 Users: 268 Sources: 80 Stories in 24 hours: 468

venture capital Created by: Jasongoldberg on Feb 22, 2008 Users: 257 Sources: 33 Stories in 24 hours: 32

apple Created by: Deepa on Feb 13, 2008 Users: 208 Sources: 35 Stories in 24 hours: 116

Arts & Entertainment Created by: Deepa on Feb 27, 2008 Users: 148 Sources: 15 Stories in 24 hours: 22

online recruiting news Created by: Jasongoldberg on Feb 17, 2008 Users: 139 Sources: 39 Stories in 24 hours: 24