Steve Jobs Sold Solutions, Not Hardware
I love this quote. It teaches me that I should always focus on selling the benefits, not the features. > What we were selling was solutions, not hardware...
Chris Mendez
453 postsDigital Product Manager & Social Entrepreneur. Mostly write about AWS, Swift, R, and Ruby.
List of Resources for Online Learning
I've been stumbling upon all of these great, (sometimes) free, online resources, and rather than a bookmark to forget, I'm hoping these list will...
Shaping How Content is Made
> Spreadability is not just about viral videos, it can also be a public apparatus where people help shape how content is made.[1] @henryjenkins [https://twitter.com/...
Bake Your Marketing Strategy Into Your Product
> Great companies have marketing intentionally built into the DNA of their products. YouTube's video sharing, Groupon's group buying, Method's stunning packaging,...
Creating a Cronjob
There are times when I need to create a clock that will run a script at a certain time or interval. Here's how to do it...
Ruby: SMPTE Converter
Convert a frame number to an SMPTE string or vice versa.
Steve Jobs and NeXT
Incredible footage of Steve Jobs while at Next computers....
P2P for good
What do Skype, Spotify, and Joost have in common? They're companies using P2P technology for good. Yup, that's right. Contrary to popular belief, P2P...
Answering life's questions through research
Most of life's questions can be explained using one of these six methodologies: Case studies: * Focus groups * Interviews * Surveys * Experiments (Independent Research) * Behavioral Tracking / Monitoring...
6 reasons why your employees may leave
I'm here at SXSW Interactive, and I stumbled upon this fascinating lecture [http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP6885]. Six reasons why your employees may leave:...
HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS)
For the past couple of days, I've been doing a lot of research on HTTP Dynamic Streaming over Amazon Web Services, and I found these links...
Digital music: production, distribution, and consumption
I like this quote because it helps me understand the trade-off music will experience as it transitions from an analog medium to a digital one. > It could...
Digital theory: Theorizing New Media
I'm reading a few books on new media, including Digital Theory [1], and I thought these quotes were interesting. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Western cultures, people used products...
Internet Timestamp Generator for Google Calendar
This Internet Timestamp tool makes it possible for me to pull out data from within a specific range. It follows RF3339 Google Calendar Specifications: /* Internet Timestamp Generator Copyright...
Android Development Overview
Every Android app will consist of components, a manifest file, and resources. Components consist of four pieces: Activities * A single screen with a user interface (aka view) * Most...
Great Composer Quiz
This tool pulls, parses, and presents data from a Google Spreadsheet. This index.html file simply loads a public Google Spreadsheet [https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/0AuI2UhLz5jk7dERELVBDcUZQU3UzMnVNSVgzSUZCakE/...
Displaying "Now Playing" Music Data
This is a tool that pulls, parses, and presents "now playing" data from Classical KUSC. <!-- #whats_playing_now starts --> <div id=...
The role of a product owner
> Writer Jonathan Swift observed, "Vision is the art of seeing things invisible." The product owner is a visionary who can envision the final product and...
4 rules on how to be a great delegate
I was watching a video tutorial by Simon Allardice, where he began explaining the rules for being a great delegate in Objective-C. I found them quite useful in...
Everything is a Remix
"Dazed and Confused", "Stairway to Heaven", "Bring it on Home" might not be as original as you think....
Create a Dynamic Google Map Site w/ Marker for iPhone
This simple example will access your GeoLocation on mobile Safari and place a marker using Google Maps. <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en">...
Simple Socket.io Example
If you're ever working with real-time javascript, try Socket.io. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>My App<...
Creating a Static Google Map
This mini experiment simply shows how to create a static Google Map with a Marker based on a user's Geo Location. This was designed specifically for...
Don't start from scratch
My thesis advisor gave me this and I really took it to heart. I guess what I love about this quote is that it can be applied to...
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