Posts filed under “Technology”
This time, it's personal
Good article in the WSJ this morning (username/pw required) about the growing importance of personalization in search. The approaches discussed: Google – Statistical tracking of web and search history to deliver more personalized results. A search for ‘Giants’ in NYC would return a football team whereas in SF it would return a baseball team. Yahoo [...]
Effective Daily Development Meetings
Jason Yip has a great post at Martin Fowler.com about making sure the ‘daily scrum’ is productive. One of the key concepts in his post centers around focusing on three things: What did I accomplish yesterday? What are my obstacles? What do I intend on accomplishing today? Another key concept focuses on the need to [...]
I need to spend more time on LinkedIn
I came across a cool thread on LinkedIn Answers via Powerset’s Blog. In it, the COO of LinkedIn asked the following question: “If you could build the perfect search engine, what would it do?” little fockers move The answers are pretty interesting and the themes that crop up are around context, intent and some interesting [...]
Stats are addictive
As someone new to the blogging world, seeing the wealth of stat-related tools out here has been eye-opening. I find myself wishing my Google Analytics and Feedburner statistics updated more frequently so I could see in real-time what was happening on my blog. There are lessons here that should be applied to user generated content. [...]
Great Post on Deciding What Not To Do (via Raymond Chen)
Whether it’s product or business strategy, until you decide what you’re not doing, you’re not going anywhere. Dreaming about the end state when your product is all-conquering and you’ve gone public on the NASDAQ is all well and good (and necessary), but you have to sit down, prioritize, decide what’s in and out of scope [...]
New Features at Judy's Book
Last Friday, we had an important release at Judy’s Book which included several new features. Some visible to consumers, others more in the back end, but all of which should lead to higher quality deals on site. The primary elements of this release were: Deal Approval Queue User Posted Local Deals (supported by¬†Local Editors in¬†select [...]
Awesome Post on User Acquisition by Andrew Chen
Andrew Chen¬†has a great post on his blog entitled¬†“Why Bloggers and Press Don’t Matter for User Acquisition.”¬†I often find myself nodding as I read his posts and this one is no exception. Press & Blogger buzz while it drives traffic, often has no connection¬†whatsoever¬†to driving users and user engagement.User acquisition is a critical part of [...]
Every Page Counts
Seth’s post on follow through and caring about the last inch is a must-read if you haven’t read it already. Obsessing about the last inch of follow through ensures that the important parts of what you do get just as much (if not more) commitment. ipod death race free You can’t afford to stop caring [...]
To make something great, you have to be a little obsessive
If you’re trying to put something great together, at some point, you have to get a little obsessive. This means you have to pay attention to little details that matter to users that aren’t quite right and highlight them again and again until they get taken care of. In the ideal scenario, you do all [...]
Aggregation vs. Content Creation
Scott Karp has a terrific post about the future of content businesses and I think it’s spot on. I would assume just the opposite ‚Äî that content distribution businesses, or more accurately in digital network terms, content platform and content aggregation businesses (think Google, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Digg) are the only real media businesses left. [...]