@beni : Sorry if this bothers you but our target is really to place a "brief" of what's going to be and the countdown is just a tool to show that we are almost there. As any application (I think apart from blizzard incredible games) we do also have " deadlines" that sometimes are quite solid, and this is one. So as Mike said, that's why we are going to have less features then expected, but in other way we are going to have public roadmap, and so on.

And, it's really not done =) and this one will REALLY be a beta at december 12th, the only difference is that we wanted to do closed beta with our closer friends from Canola 1 beta testing, but with this deadline, I think everyone will test at the same time. And that's what we need : testing / feedback. We are faster now, and the fixes (apart from being Christmas) will come quite fast this time.

So, it's just a teaser while we finish the complete website, and the launch date is dec 12th =)

BR