Wednesday, April 6, 2005

Now on feedburner

by alec on April 6, 2005

Alec Saunders .LOG now has a feedburner feed.

Randy provides a link to Google Maps beta with satellite images. It’s very cool. You can see all kinds of things in the photos. For instance, if you zoom in this link to my neighbourhood, you can compare all the neighbour’s swimming pools. Ours is the kidney shaped one in the middle of the photo. Unfortunately, Google Maps isn’t all that accurate. It places our house in the middle of the park.

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mvox MV900 BlueTooth Speaker Phone

April 6, 2005

I got a great new toy today — the mVox MV900 Bluetooth speaker phone. This little fella uses either Bluetooth or USB to connect to either a PC or a Bluetooth enabled cell phone. The sound quality is excellent. In addition, it has voice command software built into it, which allows me to program spoken [...]

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Don’t ask customers what they want!

April 6, 2005

I’ve just discovered Tom Evslin’s excellent blog Fractals of Change. This article, Great New Product Ideas – DON’T Ask the Users What They Want!, should be required reading for all technology startups. Too many product ideas are squashed by the marketing folks who say “But customers don’t want that…” (or the VCs saying “How do you know customers [...]

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