Some visitors to kinzaa.com have been asking us when we’ll be getting out of beta. Others have been asking us what beta means.

Beta is a term in the software development life cycle. It means the software is feature complete but still needs to undergo usability testing, or bug testing.

Here is what we’ve done as of October 1st 2010:

1. Moved our servers to a real data center.

2. Signed up with a content delivery network, so that large files are served out of the cloud. This means if you are visiting kinzaa.com from New York City, large files will be sent to your browser from a data center on the east coast instead of from California. Its pretty cool stuff!

3. Fixed a WHOLE bunch of bugs!

Here are some bugs we have fixed recently or will be fixing soon:

a. Support for non-English characters was added on October 26th. If you notice something out of the ordinary, please let us know ASAP.

b.  Support for non-US zip and postal codes has been added.

c. Made errors easier and friendlier to catch.

d. Making the PDF printout better. Yes, we’re listening to you, our customers!

Meanwhile, please let us know if something doesn’t work the way it should.

 Thank you.

Operations team at Kinzaa.com