Here is an observation about the internal use of Social Media in Business - News from USA TODAY Beyond advertising on Facebook or Twitter, companies are using social networks to build teams that solve problems faster, share information better among their employees and partners, bring customer ideas for new product designs to market earlier, and redesign… [Read more…]
May 13, 2012
My wife and children make fun of my speed of ironing (pressing) clothes. I seem to take about 3-4 times the amount of time they normally take. After a bit of analysis I came to the following conclusions: I use ironing time as thinking time. So I seem to mindlessly do the same thing over… [Read more…]
May 13, 2012
From letter to prospective shareholders, which is included in the IPO prospectus. Philosophy worth quoting and emulating: “Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission.” “We think it’s important that everyone who invests in Facebook understands what this mission means to us, how we make decisions and why… [Read more…]
April 29, 2012
Sometimes the simplest problem we solve so effortlessly takes quite a bit effort to solve using programming. However, thinking through the steps (and actually implementing) was worthwhile. It taught me a lot more about the problem and made explicit many of the thoughts I did not even pay attention to. The problem was a simple… [Read more…]
April 26, 2012
As a Product Manager, your job is to document and clarify and share every bit of thinking with the rest of the team. It is not just the spec, but how it evolves, why it evolves the way it does, how each interaction with the team and potential users, shifts it a bit. I like… [Read more…]
April 23, 2012
I assume, you know, why you want to find an influencer. I actually don’t like that term “influencer” and would like to use some synonyms like evangelist, thought leader, expert, expert blogger/columnist, curator. So let us say we want to find some one who is well known in a certain space. There are several ways… [Read more…]
April 21, 2012
Once in a while you follow a strange word or phrase and end up learning something entirely different like this one from Big Think : A body of running water may be called any of many different names, the most generic being stream, the most common being river. A river can be defined as ‘a… [Read more…]
April 20, 2012
I was talking to three different groups of people, this week. I realized that in each case, I was giving them some tips, talking to them about some tools. Suddenly I had this Aha moment. What if I created a blog just for sharing these tips and tools that I come across? That may encourage… [Read more…]
April 19, 2012
From the introduction of Webbots, Spiders and Screen Scrapers: The basic problem with browsers is that they’re manual tools. Your browser only downloads and renders websites: You still need to decide if the web page is relevant, if you’ve already seen the information it contains, or if you need to follow a link to another… [Read more…]
April 16, 2012
I am interested in emerging technologies. Currently my interests are in the following broad topics. But I am starting small in each area. Data Analysis and Mining Cloud Computing Social Computing Mobile Computing Internet of Things Learning Technologies Robotics Data Analysis and Mining My interest stems from the fact that our products deal with a… [Read more…]
May 18, 2012
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