As reported on alleyinsider, Microsoft is planning an iPhone-like App Store for their Windows Mobile phones dubbed “Skymarket”. It was only a matter of time before they announced this but yet again, MS is playing catch-up. Microsoft has been at the mobile OS for a while but hasn’t done much to innovate in that space. I [...]

So I ran into this webste today - www.mysearchoff.com. I like it so far and I am curious to know who created this. Not tough to create this but I like the idea and also the idea of voting on the searches by users. Try it out and let me know your thoughts.

So I wanted to check-in and select my seats on my early a.m. flight to San Jose and after logging into the site I could not select the seats on the website. This has happened to my about 3 times and this time I had to call their customer servcie number. After waiting for about [...]

Twitter has a decent API and so many applications have been built using the API but all of them are outside of the Twitter website. I think Twitter needs to launch a platform just like Facebook so that developers can build interesting applications onto Twitter - example includes photo-sharing, groups, events, classified / marketplace etc. [...]

Microsoft Research recently launched Search together  and I was really excited to read what they had to say on their research page. However, as i scrolled further I was shocked to see that they require users who download the beta to use a Windlows Live ID and IE. I mean come on, haven’t they learnt from [...]

I love reading the Indexed blog every morning - interesting to see how these simple charts and graphs start deep thoughts and conversations. This one is on inspection and innovation. Very cool blog - you should check it out.

What else would you add to this? Invention, Value?…..
 

So it’s been a week since GTA IV has been released and here is a first look at some of the numbers:

Buzz:
Here is a BlogPulse chart on the buzz for the last 2 months (this chart also includes EA games and Take Two Interactive as line charts which has announced a hostile take-over):

Sales: 
According to a report [...]

Apple always does a great job with their creatives…really like this one - catchy and perfect for the summer:

As a product manager, I am often challenged with the notion of what is a good user experience. Of-course when you think about user experience - or specifically sleek user experiences - a few brands or products come to mind. Google, Apple - the usual suspects. So to build-out a sleek and useful user interface [...]

So I have been working on this powerpoint presentation this week at work and really reflecting on how corporate citizens abuse powerpoint. Sometimes I wonder when did powerpoint become a tool for taking notes or writing memos. Even worse, when did we start writing business plans and proposals in ppt. Ridiculous! At my workplace, powerpoint [...]