1 month ago
deusx : Cherish The AIR? Just because you can doesn't mean you should - "the core idea that should be upheld by companies like Apple should be about making things better and less often. Making things that will be able to evolve, be upgraded, be adaptable, hackable and more fun to use for longer so that as a customer I do
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3 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : How To Launch Software - How To Launch Software: I wish more people understood this!
deusx : How To Launch Software (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) - "Instead what happens when software developers try the Hollywood Launch, and I've seen this many times, is that users indeed do flood to your site on launch day but... Tomorrow, hardly any of those users come back. Your traffic graphs look like
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Linkorama : Social Media 101: How to Get Your Business Involved - Here’s a list to stimulate ideas for better social media integration into traditional business practices, which we’ve broken down by department:
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9 month ago
Linkorama : What to understand about new products and startups - What is the humble approach to product design? Pay attention. Notice which things are working and which aren't.
veen : Paul Buchheit: The most important thing to understand about new products and startups - Be humble. Pay attention.
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11 month ago
Linkorama : Will it fly? - I've been thinking about a number of new product ideas lately. In doing so, I've been trying to come up with a way more structured way of evaluating them. Here's a first attempt at defining that.
Andy Baio : Ev's guide to evaluating new product ideas - for me, "personally compelling" is the only one that matters, since I can't build something I won't use myself
WillPate : Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea
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Rod Begbie : HEMA - online winkelen - Completely lovely animation on a Dutch e-commerce site. [via] #
Khoi Vinh : HEMA - Very fun.
nelson : online winkelen - Clever online ad
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20 month ago
Linkorama : Good vs. Evil Foosball - When it becomes good versus evil ~ which side of the foosball table are YOU on? On the team of Evil XI we have: Pot, Lucifer, Calgula, Ripper (as in Jack), Impaler (as in Vlad the), Hitler, Macbeth (as in Lady), Hyde, Klebb (as in Rosa), Amin, Catcher (as
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20 month ago
Linkorama : ProductWiki - ProductWiki is the website where people share information about consumer products. All of the content in the wiki is written and maintained by people just like you.
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24 month ago
Linkorama : Matt Webb Speaks - He's looking at the future through the eyes of a product-capable interaction designer, and what he sees is really exciting.
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25 month ago
Linkorama : 18 Startup Mistakes - So really this is a list of 18 things that cause startups not to make something users want. Nearly all failure funnels through that.
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Linkorama : Kawasaki and the Wrong Tale - Open source product companies are at least one exception to this notion that the Long Tail is only for marketing and distribution companies
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35 month ago
Rod Begbie : Slanket: The Best Blanket Ever - Wow, this is genius. A big fleecy blanket with sleeves, so you can control the TV or type on your laptop without exposing your shoulders. Want! [via] #
plasticbag : The Slanket is the best blanket ever - very large, very warm and with sleeves so you can change TV channels! - If they hadn't sold out of these, I'd have already ordered one. They look toasty.
gleuschk : mmmm, slanket - sleeve + blanket = slanket!
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38 month ago
Linkorama : Feld on Product/Service - “We determined that the profit level we were generating at 20 people, well, if we grew to 40 people we’d obviously double the revenue, our profit would probably be exactly the same.â€
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43 month ago
Rod Begbie : UPC Database - Open database of barcode data. Wonder if this can get linked into MusicBrainz somehow. [via] #
nelson : UPC Database - Collaborative effort to build a database of various barcodes
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47 month ago
Rod Begbie : Apple's Tipping Point: Macs for the Masses - Apple pricepoint infographic. Was this a brilliant plan-from-the-start, or just capitalising on the luck of the iPod? [via] #
plasticbag : Apple's Tipping Point: Macs for the Masses - "The Sweet Spot. Until January 2005, Apple had no iPod or PC products that served the mass market. With the launch of iPod Shuffle and Mac mini they have finally converged two product paths with the mass market in mind. This will not only drive more iPod
Kayode Okeyode : Apple's Tipping Point: Macs For The Masses - Apple's Tipping Point: Macs For The Masses
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