Posts filed under “Product”
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 [...]
New Features on Judy's Book
We just released a couple of cool enhancements to Judy’s Book this week. The first is an enhancement to the user tags feature I wrote about last week. Based on deals users save or post, we infer their favorite stores and categories. This provides another lens on what people are interested in. I’m a big [...]
LinkedIn Q&A Rocks
I was trying to get some information on using a Cingular Blackberry in India and I decided to post a question in LinkedIn’s Q&A section (login required). Within 24 hours, I got some great responses, information about flight training and a strong sense of appreciation for what LinkedIn is doing at the moment. My best [...]
Couponlooker Search Improvements
On Thursday we released a number of couponlooker search improvements. You can now use quotes around phrases to get an exact match and use the ‘+’ and ‘-’ operators to require or exclude specific terms. In addition, multi-word query performance has been improved as well. Response overall has been very encouraging so far and we’re [...]
Couponlooker Improvements – More Coupon Codes and Better Merchant Grouping
Last week, we rolled out some small tweaks to Couponlooker that should make it even better for finding online coupon codes. Fewer sale announcements, more coupon codes: We now work harder to make sure that it’s easier to find actual codes that you can use at checkout rather than just links that you have to [...]
Put yourself in a position to innovate (via Ask the Wizard)
Dick Costolo’s post titled “Launch Late to Launch Often” contains (as always) some terrific ideas. Extensible architectures generally provide more long-term business value than point solutions, although point solutions may monetize a specific market more quickly Software that hasn’t been released can be changed in ways that become less possible N customers after launch. As [...]
User Generated Content is great. Moderated User Generated Content is Better
One of the real-time lessons we learned at Judy’s Book is that while UGC is great, without vigilant moderation of that content, you’re going to get a lot of noise in the system, which is not great. When we were aggressively seeking reviews, we relied exclusively on the community to flag posts and then reviewed [...]
“All your AIM Contacts are belong to us”
I’ve been spending more time with Facebook lately and I’m very impressed. Not only does Facebook make it incredibly easy to see which of your email correspondents are on the site, they also prompt you to upload your AIM contacts. ipod all good things video Viral prompts are integrated into every aspect of this site’s [...]
Closing the loop
Most affiliate sites are designed to get users to discover the site, find what they are looking for and then click through onto the target merchant site to complete a purchase. Some sites take this a step further and try to close the loop. I was trying to book a flight on Kayak and clicked [...]