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"So it came to be that the vendor used the South By Southwest conference this week – home to the hippest of Web developers and music aficionados – to announce the latest step in its strategy, on Friday unveiling a series of “API bundles” that developers can use to more rapidly build mobile and Web applications (following the earlier announcements of its Open API Service strategy and vision for delivering bundles of API capabilities)."
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"That said, I understand public companies will not disclose breaches of IP. It's not going to happen. Despite my strong personal feelings that breach notification is essential to the overall integrity of global financial markets, companies will act in their own best interests over the short term. Looking beyond the embarrassment factor, potential brand impact, and competitive disadvantages, the single question that foils my idealistic goal of full disclosure is: "How does the company benefit from disclosure?""
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"This is why doing the research and learning as much as you can about the people involved and the specific situations they're each facing is the key. The level of relevance prescribed to your content by your prospects will determine whether or not your ideas put your company "in the room" even before you ever speak with them personally."
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"Don’t trap yourself in worrying about the labeling of goals / requirements, but if you have to work with someone who does find that really important, before you call it a requirement, make sure it is at the right level of abstraction. And of course, make sure you follow the rules of writing requirements."
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" Industry leaders Google, PayPal, Equifax, VeriSign, Verizon, CA, and Booz Allen Hamilton today announced the formation of the Open Identity Exchange (OIX), a non-profit organization dedicated to building trust in the exchange of online identity credentials across public and private sectors. OIX also received initial grants from the OpenID Foundation (OIDF) and Information Card Foundation (ICF) to advance assurance for open identity technologies."
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"Use a bug tracking system. I won't mention any by name
Let the engineers open bugs against requirements that aren't clear. I've been doing this for years and it works great." -
"We have repeatedly stated in books, on this website, and in videos that holding to the young-earth view is not a requirement for the free gift of salvation offered to us through Jesus’s sacrificial death on the cross. We certainly believe that a person can be a Christian and hold to the Reasons to Believe model (progressive creationism), the framework hypothesis, theistic evolution, or any other harmonistic view out there. However, our concern is that a person who does this is being completely arbitrary in their hermeneutic (method of interpretation)."
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" The five profitable positions for any market category are The Market Leader, The Second, The Alternative, The Boutique, and the New Category Leader. In each of these positions it is possible to make money, and possible to grow. But it is next to impossible to move from one position to another without outside help."
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"To objectively improve the completeness of your requirements, apply market data in an assessment of your requirements. To heuristically improve the completeness of your requirements, look for logical inconsistencies and gaps in reasoning or coverage."
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"GRC is a feature, not a product. It's a reporting tool, not a new paradigm for doing business.
As for the "practice" of GRC? I wouldn't bet my career on a buzzword created by a small group of vendors to sell more product and jump on the bandwagon of yet another buzzword (compliance)."
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"IT-GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) products promise a wonderland of compliance bliss. Just buy this very expensive product — which typically requires major professional services to implement, and all your business units to buy-in and participate — and all your risk and compliance problems will go away. Your CEO and CIO get a kick-ass dashboard that allows him or her to assess all your risk and compliance issues across IT, and you can have all the reports your auditor could ever ask for with the press of a button.
Uh-huh. Right. Because that always works so well, just like ERP."
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"At the center of the vendor’s plans is what it is calling an API aggregation and bundling model that packages up collections of APIs and Web services that developers can use to create a new application. One of the problems with the application approaches of OS-centric environments like the Apple iPhone or Google Android is that they route around telco APIs altogether. For instance, rather than using network location they rely on GPS; or rather than relying on telco user info, they tap into social media profiles, and on and on."
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"Field marketers are the subject matter expert who can communicate the strength of the offered product or service in the language of the buyer in their local market. By language I do not just mean the spoken or written tongue, I also mean an affinity to the business issues being faced by the customer. Even in the days of social media and automatic language and personal control over Web sites, this contribution isn’t going to disappear overnight. But it will change."
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"Section 1706 is an example of how Congress enacted a discriminatory law that hurt thousands of technology consultants, their staffing firms and customers. And despite strong bipartisan efforts and unbiased studies supporting that law’s repeal, it remains on the books."
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"The secret to customer marketing is to realize that they know more than prospects. You've got to go up-level to add value. And, just because they've pulled out their wallets does not mean they've lost their perspective. They still care more about what your solutions enable than the feeds, speeds and features. It's just that now they care about those benefits as an expansion to the good stuff they're already getting from being your customer."
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"Cospace is a coworking space and community located in North Austin. We are a place for mobile professionals – entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, creatives, and telecommuters of all stripes – who want a professional space that combines creativity and productivity with the flexibility and fun that makes Austin what it is. Basically a place for someone who wants to get out of the house, get some work done, and meet with cool people.
We are also a great option for mobile professionals who need a place to have client meetings. If you are currently having meetings at coffee shops or restaurants, and they aren’t suiting your needs, give Cospace a try. We have two well equipped meeting and conference rooms available, at prices lower than you can find in the area." -
"There are top-down strategic initiatives behind every qualified product evaluation and they're not difficult to uncover. It's a matter of asking the right questions and keeping discovery conversations on a business level before moving on to a product and user process level.
Once uncovered, these strategic buying drivers become the overriding theme to your sales process, especially the demos. The most powerful demos tie a collection of tactical user scenarios back to the strategic buying drivers. It's the easiest way to make your products important/strategic enough to drive the sales cycle to a close."
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"The combined functions of product management and product marketing have to be the conscience of the company. They are the only functions whose collective responsibilities by definition, support all other disciplines."
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"The heart of Ecrio's communication solution is the FastTrack framework. Key to the new framework is the Ecrio ApplicatorTM interface, which provides access to a simple developer command set for rich IP communications. Developers who wish to add rich communications to an application – for example, chat capabilities for multi-player gaming, or live video for mobile social networks – simply add commands for those functions using their existing tools and application run-time environments. The FastTrack framework takes on the 'heavy lifting', handling the IP communications and ensuring interoperability with the telecom infrastructure for the application. Prior to the introduction of the FastTrack framework, developers writing in Java, Flash etc. had no practical means to leverage rich IP calling, video and IP messaging. FastTrack can be used on a variety of devices including mobile phones, PC's, MIDS, and IPTV."
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"NSN will provide the technology that will let Movistar subscribers automatically link to their online identities on sites such as Facebook through their SIM cards. That way, they don’t have to sign on separately to the social network site or other online destinations such as Flickr for photo-sharing."
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"Even though FLAIM provides many traditional database features (e.g., transactions, recovery, reliability, scalability), it was conceived with a broader view toward the greater flexibility and adaptability that is offered by an XML data model. FLAIM is not new; various products have used FLAIM for over 15 years. For instance, Novell’s scalable, reliable directory and collaboration products, eDirectory and GroupWise, both use FLAIM as the data store, with user licenses totaling well into the hundreds of millions."
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"Great product manager: A great product manager sees patterns. We're not looking for one request, one story, one mistake, one data point; great product managers see the patterns in the aggregate. Like watching the game film on Monday morning, you can see what really happened from an overall perspective."
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