The "new" Facebook and Product Management

As a part-time product manager (and a true fan of products, marketing and advertising in general) - I have to mention the phenomenon that is the “New” Facebook.  Quite frankly, I could give a crap.  Like almost any UI or system - we will adapt and the new users that come after us will not [...]

Where is the press secretary when you need her?

Remember the spring of your senior year in high school?  When you had applied (and been accepted) to college already.  Remember your Guidance Counselor told you that you still needed to keep your grades up - that colleges looked at your final grades very seriously?  Remember that feeling you had towards High School - that [...]

When will computers truly "work" for us?

I know that I don’t live in the time of the Minority Report or iRobot and I also know that I have a pretty big imagination but I kind of thought that computers were here to serve us.  While we are pretty far away from a central computer in our house asking us if they [...]

Privacy enabled photo sharing?

I have been testing out brightkite lately and I really only get to work with it if I am traveling (which I happen to be doing this week).  I was in Logan today when I saw an interesting site.  A woman traveling with me (someone I did not know) was also traveling with her dog.  [...]

Will Jamie Lee Curtis blog about her experiences with the Honda FCX - I hope so!

I hope you had a chance to read this article which I found on CNN Money this week about the new Honda FCX that is going to be released to the “public”.  Stew on that word “public” for a minute because I think that you will be surprised.
Honda expects to lease out a “few dozen” [...]

How long will your old marketing prowess last?

No doubt things are changing - the question is really has it changed?  Did you spend the last 4 (or more) years of your life studying a field that just did a complete flip?  What types of companies are looking for marketing “geniuses” whose college pedigree reads “Graduated 1995″?
I posted this on Twitter a few [...]

Managing the unmanaged links

I got into a very interesting conversation with someone yesterday (I so wanted to write this last night but…) regarding the way WordPress and CommonSpot manage links.  I have been using WordPress for my blog for over a year now and I have to say that one of the most annoying things in WordPress is [...]

Automated or Connectimated

I guess I am really looking for here is an answer to a question that a lot of people are asking these days.  One that had become all to real to me recently: Is it better to have automated services or people backed services.  I am not talking about Robots doing the work - but [...]

I am finally getting what I once thought wis.dm was going to give me

I was once a member of the social networking site wis.dm - back before it changed it’s platform from a link sharing format to the current question/answer format.  I wrote about the site a few times and at the beginning was very interested in the content that I had amassed there - and the relationships [...]

Twitter: @locksmith:springield:ma

I would like to add the following API to twitter or to have a service that would have made it easier for me today. I have to tell you a short story to set up the situation I was in today.
My wife (Shannon) and I decided to go to Six Flags Great Adventure today [...]