Posted on December 5th, 2008 by Steve
The next release of Microsoft Office, codenamed “Office 14”, is to include a completely web-based version of the popular tools in the Office suite, including Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
A technical preview of these web-based tools was expected to be out and accessible to the general public by now, but apparently those plans have [...]
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Posted on December 5th, 2008 by Steve
According to a report published by Jobfox in October, 2008: yes.
Notable in the report of the top 25 recession-proof jobs: Software Design and Development ranked number 5 on the list of, Product Management was ranked number 23 (although depending on how you define Software Product Management, it could technically be lumped into the Software [...]
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Posted on December 5th, 2008 by Steve
One of the things I find fascinating as a Product Manager is what users find to be “valuable” to them, and what they describe as a product they would look forward to using every day.
In his book, Emotional Design, Donald Norman outlines how humans interact with everyday things, and how different aspects of the [...]
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Posted on December 5th, 2008 by Steve
Saw this recently, thought it was pretty good:
I get a kick out of sarcastic stuff.
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Posted on December 5th, 2008 by Steve
Amazon.com recently released its Public Data Sets service for applications hosted on Amazon’s EC2 compute platform.
According to Amazon:
Previously, large data sets such as the mapping of the Human Genome and the US Census data required hours or days to locate, download, customize, and analyze. Now, anyone can access these data sets from their Amazon [...]
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Posted on December 5th, 2008 by Steve
I tried Windows Vista for a while, and ultimately found nothing really wrong with it. The only problems I really had with it was that it hadn’t been on the market long enough for anyone to write any real tweaking tools for it yet, and the hardware I was running it on didn’t have [...]
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Posted on December 5th, 2008 by Steve
UserVoice, an online community where product users can provide feedback and vote on ideas for products, came out of beta today and declared that they are now ready to be considered as an Enterprise-level solution according to an official company blog posting.
Pricing for the service starts at “Free” for up to 10,000 users (and [...]
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