3. Beta wallet is clean and is easy to use, just like they promised.
What's special about it? Online wallets are usually clean and easy to use.
In the meantime, sites like
vekja.net and
www.mybitcoin.com have been experimenting with account-based sites. You create an account on a website and hold your bitcoins on account there and transfer in and out. Creating an account on a website is a lot easier than installing and learning to use software, and a more familiar way of doing it for most people.
4. Growth accounts look interesting as well.
Problem with growth accounts is that they are centralized as well (single point of failure). I wouldn't use them for hoarding large amounts (i.e. amounts which are considered as "investment").
The only disadvantage is that you have to trust the site, but that's fine for pocket change amounts for micropayments and misc expenses. It's an easy way to get started and if you get larger amounts then you can upgrade to the actual bitcoin software.
5. Neucoin is one of the most transparent crypto currencies. The information they provide about the coin and its future is very detail. Actually I dont know any other coin with such detail info.
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2. If you dont like how they structured distribution or their plan, invest in something else.
You seem to know more than the public does

because we still don't know how they structured distribution of BTC from public presale as well as distribution of $$$ from strategic angel investors prior to public resale. Recently they have once again silently reduced their $$$ funding commitment for foundations...