In a piece of news that totally illustrates a B2C relationship going awry, Samsung has announced that it won’t be providing additional upgrades to one of its most successful Android smartphones to date, the Galaxy S. That sucks.
With all due respect to Seth Godin, while he may be a marketing guru, his post about minimum viable product makes me think that he hasn’t participated in the product development process in a very long time, considering that his definition of minimum viable product is pretty coarse (and likely why it doesn’t work!). As [...]
I’ve gone to ProductCampNYC for the past few years, and it’s always a great experience! This year was the first year that I submitted some ideas for speaking, and I was fortunate that folks were interested in HTML5 (or at least, as much as I am!). But my bigger takeaway this year was from the keynote [...]
Over the last few months, there’s been so much turmoil in the touchscreen tablet space! Consider: HP’s newest foray into tablet computing, not with a Windows OS but instead with WebOS, subsequently gets beheaded in under 2 months after the TouchPad’s launch. Android’s Honeycomb and Gingerbread tablets are growing in number, but not so much [...]
Apple is probably thanking PayPal and Google for priming the pump of digital wallets and consumer adoption.
Visa and Square’s partnership is a much better play than Verifone’s smear campaign in March 2011.
Google considers eliminating the URL navigation bar from its Chrome browser.
OnTime is an app that’s a smart example of making new Web services and products become indispensable to our personal workflow.
In the spirit of the holiday season here in the US, this article from the Wall Street Journal seems particularly appropriate: In many cases, rewards enticed people whose cards were dormant to start spending…[and] even small rewards can prompt people to spend more. This useful study backs up the old management consulting adage of “you [...]
So following my earlier recommendation, I jumped out of bed on a crisp Saturday morning and headed over to the Microsoft offices in midtown Manhattan for the 2010 version of ProductCampNYC! There were great conversations, a ton of expertise, and an awesome raffle to close it out. To give you a sample of the topics, [...]
