Nov 06 2009
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Not something you would see at JFK airport ….
Nov 05 2009
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The future of social media monitoring, a very interesting presentation by Marshall Sponder
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“ What they should have been taking away all of this time — and have increasingly begun to — are the concepts of the constant beta and agile development,” he says. “Marketers need to abandon the time-limited campaign online and start to think of it as a constant application of a rigorous discipline. They should think of their marketing the same way that Facebook puts out a new feature every two weeks, tweaks it, changes it, and re-releases it. It’s not a coincidence that’s brought Facebook 400 million users and Twitter 40 million. We’ve been applying them to Kashi.com for three years now and have seen results beyond anything that a single campaign could do on its own.
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marketers need to integrate beta + agile dev
Agencies Need to Think Like Software Companies
(via jayparkinsonmd) (via mikehudack)
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10 examples of minimum viable products - Venture Hacks
some great advice/anecdotes from @venturehacks !
- “If Apple can launch a smartphone without Find or Cut-and-Paste, what can you cut out of your product requirements?” – Sramana Mitra
- USV-backed foursquare uses Google Docs to collect customer feedback. No code, no maintenance.
- Fliggo sells it before they build it.
- Grockit puts up a notify-me-when-you-release form on steroids.
- Auto e-commerce site uses manualation and flintstoning for their backend.
- Semiconductor company uses 5 people and FPGAs to build a $100M semiconductor product line.
- Consumer company uses fake screenshots to sell their product.
- Allicator uses Facebook ads: “Ditch Digger? Feeling spread thin? Click here to complete a survey and tell us about it.”
- ManyWheels uses Microsoft Visio to build clickable web demos for prospective customers.
- Cloudfire uses a classic customer development problem presentation.
Oct 26 2009
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let’s keep the “free markets” humming, that’ll always work, right !
Average Internet Speeds and Costs Around the World
We should be proud ‘murica.
