Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

One Year as a Product Manager

Today marks my 1 year anniversary as a product manager (PM): 50 PRD’s, 500+ logged bugs, all sorts of testing and countless meetings.

I didn’t really know what I was signing onto, but then again, what new PM really does? PM positions are like snowflakes. Duties differ from job to job and are tailored to [...]

Social Media…

Gigaom.com had a post today entitled “5 Trends That will Separate the Strong From the Weak in 2009“. It’s an interesting read but in the last part in particular stuck out to me:
Business models sink or swim. Several new business models have emerged this decade, among them VoIP, social networks and online video. But with [...]

Internet Privacy

Facebook. Myspace. Twitter. The list goes on…
Just a few years ago, we were afraid to put our personal information online. We were warned against having our last names on the internets. We feared everyone on the other end of our dial-up modems was out to get us. That our lives would be infiltrated at the [...]

Photo Ambiguity

Advertisement for a D.U.I. lawyer…

…or a b-boy toprocking in a cypher?

Nintendo is on point

I don’t even play video games but think this is smart on Nintendo’s part:
Now, we can all WiiAnyone can make a Wii Game
To summarize, Nintendo has released WiiWare, a toolkit for developing video games for the Nintendo Wii gaming console. This will give small time game developers the opportunity to create video games for the [...]