Archive for the ‘ professional ’ Category

Smart Companies know when to say goodbye

Google made the right move here. Wave was revolutionary. And it had potential. But a failed product launch is failed product launch. Knowing when to pull a product and not to invest in the marketing and continuing development of it is the mark of a brilliantly mature company. I am sure we will [ READ MORE ]

Complexity and Simplicity, Difficulty, Ease

Our problem at Everbread is difficult.  I mean the problem our product Haystack solves.  It’s also complex. To imagine how complex just look at this presentation from ITA one of our competitors. I was describing our Rotate into the Product Training program where new developers start in Client Integration for 2 months, move to Infrastucture (Operations) and [ READ MORE ]

Iphone Region settings tip

If you are an expat or just borrowing an iPhone which did not cone from the USA you might be struggling with something that troubled me for almost 2 years. How to change the default search engine for Safari. I don’t mean selecting a different provider. There are only two and they [ READ MORE ]

Now I am cracking

Messing with XPATH. God I hate XPATH. Listening to Band of Horses…  reminds me of Danny MacAskill [ READ MORE ]

Software Development Company turns into an Arbitrage Company.

37signals, on of my favorite software development companies, and creators of the Ruby on Rails Framework, have made the move into a whole new territory. They have essentially decided that it is easier to bring together content and content consumers than it is to create markets.  Nice insight.  A few years back they did the same [ READ MORE ]

Geurilla marketing versus relevant marketing

Guerrilla v. Marketing v. Now – Alex Cassoni – 2009 10 26 View more presentations from Hello Group. Old Colleagues from Hello giving the 5 minutes info drunk [ READ MORE ]

Transparency is good, but scary

Recently I posed the question to my LinkedIn network, “What do you think about an open Salary policy, total transparency in compensation at a company that is less than 40 people, is this a good idea? Or a recipe for disaster?” The response was an overwhelmingly… BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD IDEA. But i cannot believe how much a firecracker this quesiton was. [ READ MORE ]