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Product Management

All Required Ingrediants to Set Up Your Social Media/Web 2.0 Strategy

January 24, 2010

Image by thekenyeung via Flickr how to build you perfect ‘customer strategy’ mix In his past blog posts, Jeremiah Owyang has started building a base-line for what an excellent company social media strategy should be build and based on. The first rule is to generate a ‘social media strategy’ and not a ‘facebook strategy’ or [...]

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Social networks as Hardware

January 18, 2010

Image by bre pettis via Flickr Paul Confer, a close colleague of mine, can tell you the entire history of computers and the net on it’s tiniest detail. If you want to host a Trivia game with the rarest, most cool details of the history of hardware and software – he’s your guy. In one [...]

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Book Review: Inspired, by Marty Cagan – Principles of (successful) Product Management

December 5, 2009

A few weeks ago, Jon Lin ,  our team’s manager, sent the team an excited email, on a Saturday morning,  about a workshop he attended that week, led by Marty Cagan, from SVPG, a renowned expert in the field of Product Management. Now, to understand the greatness of that, one needs to know Jon – [...]

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WordCamp NYC – why Code IS poetry

November 28, 2009

Image via Wikipedia WordCamp NYC finished 2 weeks ago but it was only this weekend that I had a chance to properly digest and review all the notes and posts from the event. WordPress is one of my favorite online products out there. It is really enough to see Matt Mullenweg in action to really [...]

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WordCamp NYC – BuddyPress in Local/HyperLocal Journalism (NJ no less)

November 20, 2009

Image by cloneofsnake via Flickr I wrote this as a draft when live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  but have not had a chance to publish since. This was one of the best sessions, demonstrating how BuddyPress was used to create a social networking to support citizen journalism. Speakers:  Ted Mann, @turkeymonkey What’s HyperLocal – neighborhood [...]

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WordCamp NYC 2009 – Plugins Demo

November 14, 2009

Image via Wikipedia I am live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  please excuse any typos or less polished text. A cool demo session with a quick run through cool plugins for WordPress: Smart commenting – IntenseDebate – demo by @beaulebens better and easier way to manage your comments. Includes plugin to FacebookConnect, Twitter, etc; includes reply [...]

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WordCamp NYC 2009 – How to Choose Your Dream Theme

November 14, 2009

Image via Wikipedia I am live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  please excuse any typos or less polished text. Speaker: Adria Richards If you are a beginner blogger, this is very useful for you. If you are not, move on to the next post…. Everybody wants a great looking site, looks easy, but it’s not. If [...]

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WordCamp NYC 2009 – Using WordPress as Library Catalogs

November 14, 2009

Image via CrunchBase I am live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  please excuse any typos or less polished text. Speaker: Casey Blisson “wordpress is everything that libraries are not” Blisson opens.  The cost of library software is really high (Endeca is mentioned). WordPress is easy to use, easy to install, easy extend – plugins is an [...]

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WordCamp NY 2009 – the only thing to make me get up at 7am on Sat Morning

November 13, 2009

Image via CrunchBase 4 months ago I attended the San Fransisco WordCamp to celebrate my favorite software’s 6th birthday. This was a 2 day event bursting with really fun and light and yet inspiring sessions, on which I reported here in my blog. And that is why, tomorrow, following a crazy workweek with an avg [...]

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Guitar Heros are accessibile!

June 25, 2008

Wired have an interesting piece about guitar hero designed for the blind: “It’s a guitar-based music game that can be played without looking at the screen. Folmer’s group developed a glove that vibrates your fingers a split-second before you’re supposed to play each note in the game. It’s difficult to play, but with enough practice [...]

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