It’s so awesome having more space in our new house. One of the things that I had been looking forward to was getting back into homebrewing. I started homebrewing about 15 years ago, but when I moved back to Santa Cruz in ’03 we got a small place with no room to brew. My first [...]
This is a follow up to my previous post describing where I think social networking should go. Karen Snyder pointed out Motion, a plug in for Movable Type that is very much taking the approach I was thinking of. They’ve gone further and allow your friends to “log in” to your site with whatever other [...]
It seems to me that not much has changed between the version of the bailout bill that got rejected in the house and the one that got passed in the senate except for the addition of some pork. How about some real oversight? How about some help for the people in the troubled mortgages that [...]
Yesterday I went to another in a series of Product Management related breakfast discussions, the last one was on The Philosophy of Product, this one was about creating a value proposition. Once again Ellen Grace was an excellent host and facilitator of a great conversation.
Here are some of the key take-aways I had from this discussion:
A value proposition is a multi-layered and multi-faceted thing. Depending on what level you are at and what view you take the answer to “what is the value proposition?” may be very different.
Here’s my idea for the day, “Distributed Open Social Networking” free for anyone to take and implement. Take wordpress or similar self publishing platform and add a few features to it to make it into a distributed social networking platform. Make it easy to “add Bill as friend” from the DOSN enabled homepage so that [...]