Me likes MyLikes
Have you tried MyLikes? It’s a generic social based recommendation service, where you can “like” virtually anything (e.g. a hotel you’d like to check out or a personal finance service) and share those likes with your friends.
I have to admit when I signed up when it first launched that I was intrigued but very skeptical. [...]
Product manager stereotypes to avoid having on your team
“But Joe the executive asked us to do it the other way…”
Continuing along the path of my previous post about What makes a good product manager for software development I wanted to talk a little about the last attribute, obsessive enthusiasm about the product experience. The challenge is that it’s often hard to notice whether [...]
11 concrete steps to zero inbox
I’ve blogged before about how to handle email overload, but people often ask me how specifically I would suggest do it. So here are 11 simple concrete steps showing you how to get to zero inbox and maintain it with not-too-much-effort.
Sign up for Gmail. Yes, I’m biased, I work for Google, etc, etc. But quite [...]
Thoughts on prioritization
Every product development team (and product company, in fact) spends considerable amount of time and energy on prioritization of its work. The obvious time goes into meetings, data gathering, discussions, brainstorming and so on and so forth, but the more hidden energy goes into second guessing the prioritization, getting buy-in, politics and other counter productive [...]
Outage!!
My blog had a complete outage over the past few days.
I guess you can expect this if you want to run your own servers on your own network in your own house… who does that anymore these days?!? Well, I do. And I do it because I’m having fun at it and that’s it.
The outage [...]