Owner: Carl's Product Management Blog URL:www.carlknibbs.net Join Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:02:52 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: I'm Carl Knibbs, Head of Website for a London based internet company. I blog about product management, agile web development, social media and things that catch my eye on the internet. Site statistics:Click here
Ten Predictions For 2009 2008-12-30 09:18:13
Time for some 2009 predictions, here goes.
1. The England Football team will win all, yes all, of their qualifying games against, AndorraBelarus , Croatia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.
2. The iPhone will be freely available on 12 month phone contracts by December 2009.
3. ATARI will be in the news for bringing out a competitive gaming product and will have a renaissance in 2010.
4. Someone wil Read more:Predictions
My Maiden Podcast 2008-12-30 06:01:53 I had the pleasure of talking about Fool.co.uk's latest social application on David Quo's podcast, Money Talk.
Despite being nervous, I can say I rather enjoyed it! You can listen to the episode here Read more:Maiden
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Growing Blog Traffic 2008-12-18 16:00:47 Over the past four months the traffic to "Carl's Product Management Blog" (this blog) has grown pretty steadily:
This has been a pleasant surprise and one I hadn't really bargained on :-) So, I've found myself asking "why has it grown?" Well, I think there's a handful of reasons:
1. Luck and regular updates. I do monitor my stats. My blog comes with its own stat Read more:Growing
Top Business/Finance Blogs 2008-12-10 14:35:49 It's about time I wrote again about finance/business blogs. I wrote a post a while back now about some good ones and I really ought to keep it up. So, a few below that I have been reading recently.
The Times Money Blog is interesting, it has various contributors which means the posts jump around a bit on various subjects. The content is mixed but is fairly informal and if I was to criticise Read more:Blogs
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"Gettiing real" - 37signals 2008-12-04 06:36:41
Ben went and bought 37signals's book "Getting Real." He thought it was really good and suggested I read it.
I'm glad he did. This book is magnificient. It struck a major chord with a part of me that has always thought that there are lots of aspects of web development that are so wasteful. It's a treat that a company this successful shine a light on areas of truth and clarity that can so easily ge
BBC News: Robert Peston's Blog 2008-11-26 01:57:00 Especially at the moment, through these turbulent times for the global economy, I'd say the most compelling read is Robert
Peston's BBC Blog.
You have to hand it to the guy, he has stamina, the blog is updated frequently and when he has a story to break, he breaks it on his blog. The tone is informal and accessible in a way that is pehaps surprising considering he is an employee of The Corporation Read more:BBC News
Micro-blogging for Business: Yammer 2008-11-21 01:50:00 Everything is pointing towards writing a quick post about Yammer. It came up when I wrote about Twitter in my last post and when I was looking at my local St Albans blog I had a look at the blog roll and found someone else talking about it on the Business
Two Zero blog.
Yammer is Twitter for business environment and it is virtually identical to twitter accept for the fact that your updates (Yams?)
Twitter: Failure = Success 2008-11-18 10:21:26 Twitter is a great brand and a great site. You actually don't mind that it falls over intermittently do you? (or more exactly that it falls over a lot.)
I'd say if you can build a site/product that you like even when it fails, then you have done a tremendous job. It's got me thinking that maybe you have a success metric for a project/website that says: customers will like this product even w Read more:Success
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Re-branding - Virgin Radio & Absolute Radio. 2008-11-11 01:41:00 It's interesting to see from Google Trends how long it has taken (with the might of the radio broadcast medium behind them) for AbsoluteRadio
to build it's use as a Google search term. From this graph it looks like roughly two months to get to a point (admittedly a low point) that Virgin
Radio were at prior to the re-brand which began in September.
What this says is that it looks like Absolute Ra
Keeping Things Simple 2008-11-06 16:16:00 The web isn't meant to be complicated, it's easy to forget that. I notice, again and again, that Google (yawn) seem to appreciate this fact more than most.
They have a no fuss approach to explaining their products that keeps you engaged. Like here, to announce new features on Gmail, instead of spamming me with an email, or holding up my experience with an annoying interstitial, they pu Read more:Simple
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