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| i(am republishing this blog post as it automagically disappeared in a server upgrade I did recently, originally posted 13.10.2011)/i
pLast night I came across a rant from a Google employee (that was accidentally made public via Google+...doh!,) that provided not only good popcorn munching material, but I thought had some pretty interesting insights around what it really means to be a "Platform" company, not just a "Product" company./p
pa href="https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesvaVX"It's pretty dense stuff/a, but wanted to call out the snippet about the "mandate" that Jeff Bezos sent around the company back in 2002./p
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pSo one day Jeff Bezos issued a mandate. He’s doing that all the time, of course,... |
| Friday,December 09, 2011 10:41AM |
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| pAlthough it my seem to be the most obvious design principle, the notion of "Start with the Customer Experience" can be, and often is, the thing that businesses and product development teams can forget about during the development phase./p
pIn other words, just because you started at the Customer Experience, that doesn't necessarily mean you'll get the right end result. You need to stay there./p
pI've seen it happen many a time: teams start at the customer UX design - it's awesome, it's simple and it "just works" beautifully. Then it comes time to develop the technology and stuff behind the scenes to make it all happen. And during that process, there are hundreds, maybe thousands of design decisions being made that create opportunities to... |
| Saturday,October 01, 2011 08:46AM |
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| pI'm messing around with Google+ since it became more generally available, and finding it to be a little bit of a hit and miss experience. It's not a bad way to discover new content and interact with some interesting folks. Of course, it's probably only as good as your Circles, so a href="https://plus.google.com/101738965060274725744/posts"find me here/a and I'll Circle you back!/pimg src="http://alexbarnett.net/blog/aggbug.aspx?PostID=44884" width="1" height="1"div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/alex_barnett_blog?a=ODPz4GfZcOw:sQw6UN66BGw:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/alex_barnett_blog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a... |
| Tuesday,September 27, 2011 07:12AM |
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| pA few days ago, I celebrated my birthday and was pinged on Facebook by friends and family congratulating me on being another year older (!)./p
pAlong with those good wishes, I also got a few virtual pats on the back, commenting on how healthy I was looking in some recent photos and asked for details on how I achieved the progress I had made. Of course, it's awesome for people to take notice of the hard work you've put in and confess to blushing a little at the complements. This post is my response, sharing some of the things that have worked for me in the last 14 months or so in my journey to make a better me./p
pBefore I start, I want to stress: the following worked (and is working) for me. It's not meant as a prescription or a recipe... |
| Monday,September 12, 2011 16:05PM |
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| PA href="http://resource.org/8_principles.html" mce_href="http://resource.org/8_principles.html"/A/P
PEarlier this week I was in the MIX10 crowd as Douglas Purdy announced the A href="http://www.odata.org/" mce_href="http://www.odata.org/"Open Data Protocol/A (it was a great presentation - A href="http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2010/03/16/open-data-for-the-open-web.aspx" mce_href="http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2010/03/16/open-data-for-the-open-web.aspx"summarized here/A)./P
PI want to share with you why I think OData could be a very big deal…But before we go there...let's start with the basics.../P
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