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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: beta</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/beta.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2008-08-26T16:27:57+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Gears for Safari Beta</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Aug/26/gears/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-08-26T16:27:57+00:00</published><updated>2008-08-26T16:27:57+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Aug/26/gears/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://groups.google.com/group/gears-users/msg/59c3950739b83da6"&gt;Gears for Safari Beta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
“Chances are it will break your browser. Please proceed with caution.”


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</summary><category term="beta"/><category term="gears"/><category term="google"/><category term="safari"/></entry><entry><title>Yahoo! OpenID Provider service now available as a public beta</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Feb/3/yahoo/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-02-03T22:17:33+00:00</published><updated>2008-02-03T22:17:33+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Feb/3/yahoo/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/01/yahoo-openid-beta.html"&gt;Yahoo! OpenID Provider service now available as a public beta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
This actually happened a few days ago, but I’ve been offline for the past week travelling to New Zealand  and attending Kiwi Foo.


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</summary><category term="beta"/><category term="kiwifoo"/><category term="openid"/><category term="yahoo"/></entry><entry><title>PostgreSQL 8.3 beta 4 release notes</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/12/release/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-12-12T00:43:58+00:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T00:43:58+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/12/release/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release-8-3.html"&gt;PostgreSQL 8.3 beta 4 release notes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
In addition to the huge speed improvements, 8.3 adds support for XML, UUID and ENUM data types and brings full text (tsearch2) in to the core database engine.


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