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5 tips for your web service / product

By Pierre Sauvignon Monday March 9, 2009

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So that’s it? You think you have a great idea? you’ve pitched it to a few friends and they liked it? Even better they gave you money to make it happen? Well now starts the (real) hard part… Execution!

Part of my work at Pollenizer is to help our clients to go through the challenges of product / service development. So you will find here a selection of advices I have found myself giving frequently. The list could go on forever so I’ve picked the 5 points that I believe are the most frequently under-estimated or misunderstood.

1. The Software: Fast and Simple

What Google knows, God knows

By Pierre Sauvignon Thursday February 19, 2009

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google-is-evil Today’s trend is to shoot at Facebook and its TOS. It makes us feel good to catalyse our fear of privacy invasion onto one specific place. But the good thing with Facebook is that at the end of the day it’s just a bunch of drunken pictures and a couple of embarrassing philosophical reflections…

So I don’t think that Facebook represents such a danger for our privacy. However what about Google?

Let’s stop our compulsive clicks for 1 second, step back from the computer and think about this: Exactly how much does Google know about you?

DSLR range 2008-09

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I often get asked “What is the best DSLR?” or “Which camera to get when learning digital photography” and other “Canon Vs. Nikon” questions… These are fair questions that require a bit of thinking to come up with fair answers
In this post I tried to gather all information available on the current range [...]

Stats: 1 week of digital life

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Raw statistics from my week:
50 hours online (here)
600 web-pages view

Scams on Craigslist and Gumtree

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Being pretty disappointed by eBay, I had a go to other online marketplaces; Gumtree and Craigslist. They are both free and have quite a large community. They are also much easier to use than eBay and you can have your items for sale quickly.
So I put an ad on Craigslist here to sale my camera [...]

eBay is the worst online service I have ever used.

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I instinctively managed to stay away from eBay for a while. Unfortunately I had to create an account and sell stuff on it recently. Interesting experience from a Web 1.0 pioneer. Here are my notes:
1. It’s incredibly complicated: It took to Rai and myself a good 20-30 minutes to put our first item for [...]

Internet fairytales and other stories

the juicy cow

What Google knows, God knows

DSLR range 2008-09

Stats: 1 week of digital life

Scams on Craigslist and Gumtree

eBay is the worst online service I have ever used.

10+1 Great use of Music in Movies

Brand recognition… or not!

Google Reader Improvements (I wish!)

A word about Tangler

10+1 Great Video Advertisement

Design: Evolution idea for Apple’s remote control

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