Technical

A quick look at Twitter Music

Twitter recently launched a social music discovery site, music.twitter.com. It’s pretty interesting. There have been a variety of music discovery...

Creating a Data Driven Culture

Small companies have lots of advantages over their bigger competition. With less bureaucracy, less politics and fewer obligations to existing customers, they are...

How I Doubled My Website Speed in 10 Minutes

Here at Yottaa we’re obsessed with making websites better, and a major component of that mission is improving website speed. Simply put: We eat, sleep, and breathe web...

Spottah's Streak Ends: 3 Rules to Avoid Future Thrashes

Over the past six months, Spottah managed to quiet the "Lizard Brain." It was an amazing streak that would make Seth Godin proud. We delivered a minimal viable product, a beta...

Top 5 Challenges Migrating to a New Cloud

Over the last year I’ve had the opportunity to gain hands on experience building software to support multiple clouds. While most cloud consumers can live within the gated...

On Not Being Scrum Enough

A few months back I had dinner with a group of product managers returning from Scrum training. The team had been struggling to find the right process for their organization, and hoped...

WANTED: Engineer to Build My Product

As many fellow non-technical folks know, it’s not easy selling an engineer on building a product that’s not their own. To remedy this situation, many people (including myself) have...

Facebook Hosts a Mobile Social Hack in Cambridge

On Friday I was able to participate in Facebook's mobile-social hack in Cambridge.  More than 60 developers were in attendance for the all day event with several teams hacking...

Learn how to code
1.)  Start here:   http://www.codecademy.com/#!/exercise/0.  It’s the basics.  See if it interests you.  It’s a process that’ll take a while, so it’s key to see if it interests you right...
CXO Guide to Moneyball

As the CXO, you have watched the monthly cloud bills steadily rise. You’ve tried everything to drive them down, but nothing seems to make a difference. You have lingering doubts...

Dark Side of the Cloud: Problems with Storage

We recently moved from Amazon on-demand “cloud” hosting to our own dedicated servers.  It took about three months to order and set up the new servers versus a few minutes...

The Consumerization of Business Software

One of the themes that we've been most interested in at NextView over the last 12+ months has been the impact of consumer web trends on business software... 

The Future of the Tablet

It’s a well known thing that when television came into the world, the initial televison programs looked like radio but with the camera on.  Namely, it was the news delivered by a person...

Landing pages: Bringing Speed to the Money Page [Infographic]

First impressions count and perceptions about your brand identity, offering and call to action all converge on the landing page.  It does not matter if the landing page is a product page with...