October 2009
1 post
The Twitter Nostalgia App
You know the feeling when you go through an old diary you wrote, or old pictures of your self?
You know this feeling of remembering your self back then, your thoughts, maybe the way you viewed the world?
Nostalgia is fun almost for everyone. My idea is to make a twitter nostalgia app. Since we update so much on twitter and have tweets we wrote from a while back it could be fun to see old tweets...
July 2009
2 posts
"Who Better To Go For a Search Than Your Friends"
Says Charlie Rose on a conversation with Michael Arrington: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/24/arrington-on-charlie-rose-talks-twittergate-crunchpad-and-competition/
Updates About Status Search
Louis Gray did a very nice write up about Status Search and I wanted to take advantage of it and add some information he did not include in his blog post.
So yeah we were focusing only on status updates until we figured out that there is a lot of important and valuable information in all the other kinds of content your friends share (video, links, pictures). Also if you think about it, all of...
June 2009
4 posts
“How David Beats Goliath
David’s victory over Goliath, in the Biblical account,...”
– http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_gladwell?printable=true
History Lesson: The First 5 Users On Facebook
The method for finding out who was the first 5 was simply to play with the id in the URL. You can see that Mark has id=4. 1,2,3 do not exist. The next 2 after Mark are his official co-founders.
Arie, id 7, is the first one who is not a co-founder (officially) . Which makes him actually the first user on Facebook. He’s a Jewish guy that studied with Mark in Harvard and later on did Aliyah to...
May 2009
4 posts
3 tags
Real Life Search
Have you ever thought how search works in real life (offline I mean. Not on the web)?
It all starts when you want to know something. It happens many times a day. So what do you do? how do you find information about the thing you want to know right now?
Give it a few seconds of thought and you’ll discover that the first thing you do in real life search is go check with your social network....
Why Status Search Might Work
I read this article on search engine land and it described few points that show why social search (or search in your friends’ status updates) is the next iteration of search.
I would like to quote few interesting parts of this article:
“ To make important decisions, people tend to turn to people they trust. The conventional search engines do a poor job of providing recommendations...
12 Things I Wouldn't Want To Search In Real Time
1. Recipes
2. Recommendations for good cameras
3. Lovely vacation places
4. Quality books to read
5. Restaurants that got good reviews from my friends
6. Good airline company
7. The wikipedia page of Sergey Brin.
8. The website of a coffee shop I have a meeting in
9. Nike’s website
10. SAT study material
11. What my friends said about a specific apple product
12. Information about...
How To Choose Your Partners
One question I get a lot is what documents should I prepare before starting up. Since I already answered this one I should now try to answer the second most popular question I get: “How to choose your partners”.
The ideal partner would be someone you know every inch of his soul. Because it’s very rare to find someone you know so well and is interested to work with you on the...
April 2009
1 post
Intelligent Content
I have this idea for a long time. I think it’s great and I would like to share it with you.
Remember when you were studying to these SAT tests and had to learn many unheard of long words? 7-15 letters words? remember those?
Words like: accumulate, accursed, achromatic, fledgling, tantamount, preponderant, mobocracy and more.
Well, usually people who know these words good enough to write them in...
March 2009
8 posts
Entrepreneurs Need Strong Nose Muscles
Many of the new friends I made in the last few years are young entrepreneurs. Most of them first time entrepreneurs.
I discovered that most young entrepreneurs have weak nose muscles. A slight gust of success wind, one that more experienced people won’t even notice - can hit their nose up to the sky.
The wind of success can be really self destroying. It’s worst when it feels like the...
How To Say Goodbye In A Digital World
This is a message I got today from one of my (former) facebook friends.
“
Hi Lior,
I am sorry but I have to say goodbye. I am having hard time with the frequency of your updates on facebook. It leaves no place for updates from my other friends. We’ll probably see each other on the street :)
“
Just to let you know. I had 13 new posts in the last 4 days. That’s about 3...
How To Solve Information Overload Problem (?)
Imagine you’re working in an office. You’re job is not the most important one in the office, but still, you have a little bit of responsibility.
In order to preform your work the way you’re expected to, you have to read 2 magazines each month. If you stay behind, you might miss important advances and new markets that are emerging. Which means comptitors will kill your company...
Help Me Discover Less
For the last 2 years people are working really hard to create the best solution for the ‘content consumption online’ problem. That includes me with my start-up Veedda.
The problem can be described in two words- “information overload”. It’s a well known problem that is affecting almost everyone in the connected world.
I want to do a short review of the latest...
5 Things That Will Not Make You Happy
Fame, Power, Beauty, Wealth, Genius.
http://www.cracked.com/article_17061_5-things-you-think-will-make-you-happy-but-wont.html
230 Tips and Tricks for Better Usability Testing →
17 Links About Web Usability →
55 Words To Describe A Product
Accessible Desirable Gets in the way Patronizing Stressful Appealing Easy to use Hard to use Personal Time-consuming Attractive Efficient High quality Predictable Time-saving Busy Empowering Inconsistent Relevant Too technical Collaborative Exciting Intimidating Reliable Trustworthy Complex Familiar Inviting Rigid Uncontrollable Comprehensive Fast Motivating Simplistic Unconventional Confusing...
February 2009
6 posts
3 tags
Have A Product Idea?
Here is what to do first:
Step 1: Do Your Homework
Sit in front of the computer and read about the market until your eyes turn red and your back hurts. When getting ready to go out and fight you have to know as much as possible. As much as you know before going out, the chances of succeeding will rise.
Remember when you’re a kid. Coming to class with your homework done always felt better...
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The 5 Document You Must Have Before Starting-Up
1. Market research
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/951952/market-research
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_research
2. Product vision
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/JimHighsmithonProductVisi.html
3. Product requirements
How To Write a Good PRD: http://www.svproduct.com/papers/goodprd.pdf
4. Product roadmap
http://www.woodsidefund.com/ent/articles/Building_Roadmap.html
5....
Product Questions to Ask Your Self Weekly
As a product manager you can get distracted easily by a million different things. It’s important once in a while (preferred once a week) to go back to basis and check with your self if the direction your going with the product is the right one.
So here are few questions to ask your self weekly:
Is my product compelling to our target customer?
Have we made this product as easy to use as...
Extreme Programming Method
To help illustrate what it really means to follow an Agile method, let’s look at the specifics of the most popular one, known as Extreme Programming (XP). While the creators emphasized that it is not a one-size-fits-all method, and that it should be applied selectively, there are a core set of fundamental principles that form the basis of the method:
- Pair Programming – the software is written...
Agile Methods For Product Development
There are twelve core principles that the various Agile methods all have in common. The ways in which each method carries out the principles vary sometimes considerably, but the common philosophy is:
1. The top priority is to satisfy the customer through early and frequent delivery of valuable software – valuable software early
2. Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a...