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Proprietary e-readers are doomed | Productible
http://joeldowns.com/2009/12/04/proprietary-ereaders-are-doomed
Product management in media and tech. Proprietary e-readers are doomed. On December 4, 2009. Few tech gadgets these days inspire more wonder and press buzz than e-readers. Didn’t pioneer the e-reader space, they did popularize it with their bookworm-friendly Kindle. The Kindle, while rather feature-poor as a device, is great for pure book reading, and the passion shown by its users has apparently inspired many other companies to follow suit by developing their own e-readers. Until I find the e-reader wit...
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Dell Streak: Lame. Dell Inspiron Duo: Cool. | Productible
http://joeldowns.com/2010/11/16/dell-streak-lame-dell-inspiron-duo-cool
Product management in media and tech. Dell Streak: Lame. Dell Inspiron Duo: Cool. On November 16, 2010. I’m not sure what the price point will be on the Inspiron Duo when it comes out next week. But this may be the iPad for the rest of us who aren’t so keen on the whole iTunes ecosystem:. Social Games all the rage? Android: Classic Disruptor →. Hi there, I'm Joel. I've been working in social media and product management for 15-odd years, and my current project is Learnamic.
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Google+: Better than Buzz and Wave, but no Facebook Killer | Productible
http://joeldowns.com/2011/07/01/google-better-than-buzz-and-wave-but-no-facebook-killer
Product management in media and tech. Google : Better than Buzz and Wave, but no Facebook Killer. On July 1, 2011. So I finally got in to test out Google , and I have to say it’s definitely an interesting product. I can’t dismiss it the way I did with Google Wave. Here are some of my first impressions:. Update: I received this via IM from a friend today:. Why is google spamming me when they know I’m not a member and I can’t join? G has some neat features, but I’m not sure how Google is trying to po...
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The Kindle is dead, long live the Kindle | Productible
http://joeldowns.com/2011/10/10/kindle-dead-long-live-kindle
Product management in media and tech. The Kindle is dead, long live the Kindle. On October 10, 2011. I’ve been complaining ( whining. Amazon has now released the Kindle Fire, a color tablet that is based on the Android OS rather than their proprietary Kindle OS, just as I told them to. The world doesn’t need another OS, and Amazon doesn’t need to waste money designing one, so they’re much better off leveraging Google’s OS and adding the Kindle software on top of it. So to Amazon, I say well done: youR...
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Why I won’t buy Gateway ever again | Productible
http://joeldowns.com/2011/04/16/why-i-wont-buy-gateway-ever-again
Product management in media and tech. Why I won’t buy Gateway ever again. On April 16, 2011. So yeah, many of you probably read my headline and thought “duh.” I never had a very favorable impression of the Gateway. Normally when I buy a PC, I do my research, find a rig online that fits my specs, and then order it, typically online, so I can get a decent price. But, I needed the PC today, like now. So I headed on over to my local Fry’s to see what they had. I’m getting there. I wrote the whole situation o...
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Kindle will be history within a year | Productible
http://joeldowns.com/2009/05/19/kindle-will-be-history-within-a-year
Product management in media and tech. Kindle will be history within a year. On May 19, 2009. As sick as I am of hearing about the underwhelming Wolfram Alpha. I’m even more sick of hearing about the product-that-shouldn’t-be, Amazon’s Kindle. This machine is destined to be obsolete within a year, so Amazon should quick-like get back to ecommerce and leave hardware to companies that know something about it. For a few laughs, let’s look at Amazon’s pitch for their latest model, the Kindle DX:. 8211; PDF re...
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Q&A | Productible
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Product management in media and tech. Hi there, I'm Joel. I've been working in social media and product management for 15-odd years, and my current project is Learnamic. Previously I founded Answerbag.com. First English-language Social Q&A site, and still third largest), online magazine Gamers.com. And I built casual social gaming site Grab.com.
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Social Games all the rage? Not so much | Productible
http://joeldowns.com/2010/11/09/social-games-all-the-rage-not-so-much
Product management in media and tech. Social Games all the rage? On November 9, 2010. There’s a great article over at Search Engine Watch about how “ Social Networks don’t Automatically Make Games Social. True social gaming on Facebook is still pretty rare, and with the complexity of building truly social games, we’ll probably have to wait a while still before they come to the fore. Ben Elowitz on the rise of SMO: Social Media Optimization. Dell Streak: Lame. Dell Inspiron Duo: Cool. →.
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The morbidity of the Facebook Timeline | Productible
http://joeldowns.com/2012/02/26/morbidity-facebook-timeline
Product management in media and tech. The morbidity of the Facebook Timeline. On February 26, 2012. Not much happened in my life between being born and 2007. The Facebook Timeline is morbid. Where are we used to seeing the “timeline” paradigm? History books. Timelines are used for tracking progressions of significant events chronologically, events that usually have an explicit beginning and an explicit ending. As it stands, the morbidity of the Timeline has largely turned me off from using Facebook. ...
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Ben Elowitz on the rise of SMO: Social Media Optimization | Productible
http://joeldowns.com/2010/10/27/ben-elowitz-on-the-rise-of-smo-social-media-optimization
Product management in media and tech. Ben Elowitz on the rise of SMO: Social Media Optimization. On October 27, 2010. PaidContent features an article from our friend Ben Elowitz proclaiming the death of SEO in favor of Social Media Optimization. Or SMO, and it’s worth a read (his blog is here. As I discussed in my blog post on the rise of social search. NookColor: First of the iPad Challengers. Social Games all the rage? Not so much →. Previously I founded Answerbag.com.
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