Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail, has a valuable piece of advice on building a great product, citing examples of Gmail and iPod: If you’re creating a new product, what are the three (or fewer) key features that will make it so great that you can cut or half-ass everything else? Are you focusing at least 80% of your effort on getting those three things right? Very nicely and concisely put. [Continue]
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ifacethoughtsPosts for February, 2010
Ubuntu Defaults To Google Docs For Netbooks
Ubuntu Netbook Edition has dropped OpenOffice in favour of Google Docs. One of my friends asked me if this was because a netbook’s resources were not enough for Ubuntu and OpenOffice. I doubt. [Continue]
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