My colleagues Brad Hintze and Travis Ryan recently completed a nifty little Flickr/Google Maps demo app. Brad blogged it on The Bungee Blog, and speaks a bit about it design for rich internet apps.
[The IE screenshot was by done by Brad.]
An interesting recent move by emusic: Audiobooks in mp3 format.
Until now, Audible.com has been my provider of choice (in a world of few choices). But I’m also an eMusic subscriber. I got into Audible.com a long time ago. I got in early, and have enjoyed a generous subscription rate ever since. So, I will not switch immediately. However, the chances of me referring many new customers in Audible.com’s direction just got pretty slim. Go, eMusic!
The Catch-22 of Software Feature Releases
One of the most frustrating things with which product managers contend in the traditional software release model is the long wait between each new version. I faced this when I worked at Novell on products such as ZENworks, eDirectory, iManager, and SUSE Linux Enterprise. In managing these enterprise-focused products, it was agonizing to have researched requirements and documented specifications for a next version, and then have to languish while developers worked to create a complete, well-integrated and solid next version. But I highlight the long interim between software releases to address a common misconception and try to tear it down. (more…)
Quothe Luis Villa:
What exactly are you doing these days at bungee anyway, Ted? ‘ted haeger site:bungeelabs.com’ turns up zilch, which makes me suspect that if you’re still a community manager, you’re not managing much. (August 31, 2007 @ 2:06 pm)
Luis:
I decided to elevate the response to your comment to the blog level because it’s a totally fair question.
First, the technical note: the search you did won’t reveal anything much because bungeelabs.com is not yet crawlable by Google. The site is an Ajax application created with Bungee Connect. One of our long list of to-do’s is crawlability for Bungee-powered applications.
Nevertheless, you point out that I should probably document some of the community work that I am doing (along with Alex Barnett and others) at Bungee Labs. I’ll add that as an ongoing conversational topic.
In the mean time, I have two things to point to:
