Archive for February, 2008
What if the internet just stops?
A few weeks ago a conversation floated back and forth around my office about how reliant we all are on our technology and what would the reprecussions be if anything would ever happen to affect our symbiotic relationships. Then, last week, undersea cables carrying massive amounts of Internet bandwidth (as well as telephone service) started [...]
#1 Mistake in Product Management
Hi I’m Michael Valiant. You may recognize me as a Product Manager staring in such corporations as 1ShoppingCart… (sorry, I just watched the simpsons) A new quarter has started, we’re looking at product road maps, and I’ve been thinking a little about Product Management; just in general. It’s amazing how easy it is for employees [...]
If You MUST Date WordPress
.style1 {font-size: x-small} photo by j.reed Further thoughts on Dates within your blog (original post) I’m no developer, but fortunately I can read php well enough to munge together what I need most of the time if I have enough examples of what I want. And, in order to add the dates back here the [...]
Building – or is that growing!? – Sprouts
I love what the team at sproutbuilder.com has put together. They’ve barely launched and have been struggling with server-load issues but the product is incredible (or remarkable as Seth Godin may say) Basically, if you know what you’re doing (and I don’t!) you can jump in and create great flash widgets for your site in [...]


