By Anders Lisdorf Reading Steve Jobs’ biography set in motion a train of thoughts that took me from the Jobs/Gates controversy over history of religion and philosophy to what we [ … ]
Category: Microsoft
Remote workers, Yahoo and building great products
By Saeed Khan It’s been several months since the news of Marissa Mayer’s INTERNAL memo on working from home, entitled “Physically together” became public. I had written a blog post [ … ]
Product Management is spreading…technologists take note!
By Saeed Khan Back in 2000, before the tech bubble burst, I saw an interview with Steve Jurvetson – now a Managing Director at venture firm Draper Fischer Jurvetson. Steve [ … ]
Rules and Laws Product Managers Should Understand (part 2)
Continuing from Part 1, here are more Rules and Laws to help Product Managers in their jobs. Thackara’s Laws John Thackara can best be described as a thinker, designer and [ … ]
The secret to Apple’s success?
If there’s one company that is the envy of the high-tech community these days, it’s Apple. Steve Jobs is hailed as a genius CEO and lauded for a string of [ … ]
Career paths for Product Managers
Just a quick note. I’m speaking on a panel this evening at the Toronto Product Managers Association (TPMA). The topic is Career Smarts for Product Managers. The meeting is in [ … ]
Keyboard “install” shouldn’t be this hard
Why does a keyboard have to ship with a CD?
What’s in an icon?
Have you noticed that Google recently changed its standard icon? Below are the three instances of Google’s “favicon.ico” that I am aware of. – the Google icon used for over [ … ]
A Not so Cuil (Cool) Launch
To a decent amount of fanfare, a search engine named Cuil (pronounced cool) was launched this week. Founded by ex-Googlers, Cuil was positioned as a direct competitor to Google. Now, [ … ]
Can’t we all just get along?
Having just finished a post recently defending Microsoft PM Scott Buchanan from the overwhelming force of the Cranky PM’s vituperative volley, I came across another scathing salvo from Tom Grant [ … ]