One of the things I have learned in my career as a product manager is that you are in positions to make decisions every day. Quite often, these decision are hard, and impact a lot of people. In a simplified world, there are two ways to go about doing this. […]
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The auto industry is approaching Car Apps in an interesting way
I saw an article today on Ford and Toyota launching a Consortium to get developers to build on the Smart Device Link (SDL) platform. You can learn more about it on the SDL homepage. The strange thing is, SDL appears to be a declarative way to express your application while […]
Urgent vs. Important work
We have been having this recurring discussion at work lately about the difference between Urgent work vs. Important work. Understand how this fits in your decision making process is key in my view to being productive, yet understanding the proper interruption cycle when things are not going as planned. I […]
Twitter Acquires Posterous – good timing for me
If you didn’t read.. Twitter bought up Posterous today. I gotta say.. it was quite good timing on my part. Yesterday I started migrating off of Posterous back to my own WordPress blog. Don’t get me wrong, Posterous was great. I was always torn between running my own WordPress instance, […]
RANT: Securely storing Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
Quick rant here. I came across another article about a company and their data being compromised. I use “THEIR” very loosely here, as it typically means OUR data (read for what I mean with PII). Tivo had their email database hacked, which is leading to a bunch of spammers […]
Why I like the new Apple TV
Lots of people are complaining about the new AppleTV and what it didn't bring for features, what they don't like, what they wished it had, etc. Realizing that Apple did their homework first, to try to hit the mass market, many of us “techies” are not necessarily the target demographic. […]
Blackberry Torch thoughts…
I have to say, it's only been a couple days however, the Torch seems like a complete #FAIL to me. Sure, I'm an avid iPhone user, but in no way do I see this thing winning over any iPhone or Android users at all. At best, you'll take a Blackberry […]
Struggling with Google Buzz
OK, I’ve really tried to giv e Google Buzz a run and see how useful it can be. My problem is two fold. First is the lack of integration into my GAFYD (Google Apps for Your Domain) email, the second is lack of integration into the linked sites. GAFYD: Lack […]
Managing your group for success
This is going to be a fairly short little post, but after a couple discussions recently with some other people, it is still amazing to me how many managers don’t know how to manage a team properly. The experiences I have been hearing about all resonated with me based on […]