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March 25, 2011

Friday fun: 10 Great Error Messages CIO.com

From the alphanumerically incomprehensible to the anger-abatingly astonishing, error messages have long been the computer's way of telling us we'll never truly understand it. Circular logic, tiny type, and an occasional flash of unexpected humor make error messages the Zeno's paradoxes of our time—and any PC's user all-too-frequent companion.

via cio.com

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Friday fun: Re-imaging the future with Microsoft

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March 18, 2011

Friday fun: Top 10 cities to date a nerd

With The Social Network nominated for an Oscar in 2011 and Mark Zuckerberg named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2010, it has never been cooler to be a nerd than it is right now. In this day and age of all things high-tech, we couldn’t think of a better time than now to celebrate the self-proclaimed nerds of Match.com. We researched our top 10 cities with the highest educated Match.com members (either in technical or educational occupations), and eureka! Sunnyvale, CA (in the heart of Silicon Valley) is THE number-one place to find yourself your very own nerd.

via yahoo.match.com

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March 17, 2011

Brilliant Forced Perspective Photography – Part 1 | Impact Lab

Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera.

via impactlab.net

Sometimes good positioning is just a question of changing your perspective. The new iPad2 has an HDMI adapter to show your screen on a TV. Jobs says, "You see exactly the same thing!" But actually, it's just mirroring. My reaction was, "Oh, that's bad. I wanted separate displays." But Jobs' excitement convinces us that this is a feature, not a weakness.

Whose perspectives do you need to change? Your sales team's? Your customers'? Yours?

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March 11, 2011

The iPad 2

http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2011/03/how-to-deal-with-informati...

(Two hours until I can order it).

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March 03, 2011

Video Thursday: Shuttle launch from the air

Have you seen this one? Over 2 million people have. It's a view from the sky of the space shuttle launch.

It's probably better if you turn off the sound so you don't get distracted by the inane comments.

Enjoy.

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February 25, 2011

You Might Be a Product Manager If... | Product Beautiful: Building Product Management by Paul Young

Since we at Pragmatic Marketing just released our 2010 Product Management Survey, the time is right to revist one of my favorite topics: You Might Be a Product Manager If… In the spirit of the American comedian Jeff Foxworthy (“You Might Be a Redneck If…”), this year, product managers around the world contributed to the #YMBAPMI list over Twitter, LinkedIn, and this blog. And the results were excellent. So without further ado, I present the 2011 list:

via productbeautiful.com

You might be a product manager if you use the term "requirements" in discussions with your spouse and children.

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February 11, 2011

Friday fun: Focus Groups (2)

Focus Groups are a helpful method for validating innovative ideas, but only if you get the right people in the room.

(Thanks to John for sharing this)

For an exploration of 7 research tools for managing risk in innovation, watch for my webinar with Vovici. The recorded session should be posted this weekend.

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February 10, 2011

Video Thursday: Sales is direct; Marketing is subtle

Thanks to Jeremy Epstein for sharing this.

Source: http://jer979.com/igniting-the-revolution/heinekentiger/

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February 04, 2011

Friday fun: focus groups

(Thanks to Dave J for sharing)

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January 28, 2011

Friday fun: Truth in Advertising

Thanks to Debra Mammen for sharing this.

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January 21, 2011

Friday fun: Star Wars help desk

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January 13, 2011

Video Thursday: If ad agencies planned kids' birthday parties

This is an excellent example of using video to spread your marketing message. A little tongue-in-cheek and fairly humorous. Obviously, the ad firm doesn't take themselves too seriously. Nice.

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