My burgeoning amazon kindle bookshelf 3/3

 

List of Gadgets purchased in 2012/13/14

I have been on a gadget buying binge for the past few years! I have personally made huge investments to spruce up my study room – as I choose to call it – my mission control! 🙂

Press releases of present/past product launches

Core breakthrough product / feature launches from the beginning of my career till date!

Flipkart Internet Private Limited, India

Flipkart Immediate payments service for instant refunds – http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Flipkart-to-offer-customers-refund-within-24-hours/articleshow/48742538.cms

Flipkart Reservation service for flash sales – http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/LeEco-sells-70000-Le-1S-phones-in-two-seconds-during-Flipkart-flash-sale/articleshow/50823070.cms

Flipkart Product exchange offer to provide good value for money – http://stories.flipkart.com/exchange-your-old-phone/

Flipkart/EKart – Smart pickup capability for the e/m-commerce last mile (supply chain/logistics eco-system)

Flipkart/EKart – Cash deposit machine automation for delivery hubs in the last mile (supply chain/logistics eco-system)

Capillary Technologies Pte. Ltd., Singapore

Dual screen technology for Retail Point of sale cashier systems – http://www.freshpatents.com/Naveen-Athresh-Bangalore-invdxn.php

Point of sale loyalty / coupon integration store client / clienteling system – http://capillarytech.com/products/instore-marketer/

Omni channel / social media integration for Capillary’s clients – http://capillarytech.com/products/social-connect/

iPass Inc. San Francisco

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ipass-offers-it-sponsored-global-wi-fi-access-to-resolve-rising-byod-network-costs-2012-09-18
–Enterprise connectivity (Wi-Fi) product (USA)

http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/roundup/ipass-launches-new-service-to-reduce-byod-costs-1098124
–Enterprise connectivity (Wi-Fi) product (UK)

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/mobile-wireless/3382108/firms-offered-more-control-over-byod-mobile-costs/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/19/ipass_local/

http://www.techzone360.com/topics/techzone/articles/2012/09/18/308248-ipass-offers-it-sponsored-global-wi-fi-access.htm

http://www.afaqsreporter.com/static_pages/66/2383.html

IDrive Inc.

–Online media Consumer product

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/04/prweb514541.htm

–Online backup SAS 70 certification (Statement of auditing standards)

http://www.ibackup.com/online-backup-news/

–IBackup SMB / online backup consumer product

http://www.idrive.com/online-backup-news.htm

–IDrive online backup consumer product

No blog posts for sometime

I will not be blogging for sometime now as I have some priority issues to take care of. I look forward to syncing up with my blogger community as soon as I can!

Take care and happy new year 2011!

Interaction design (IXD) – design/strategy

Image courtesy: http://www.amazon.com/About-Face-Essentials-Interaction-ebook/dp/B001C323BI/ref=pd_sim_kinc_1?ie=UTF8&m=AH9CGK6QR37LL

Image courtesy: http://www.amazon.com/Inmates-Are-Running-Asylum-ebook/dp/B000OZ0N62/ref=pd_sim_kinc_2?ie=UTF8&m=AH9CGK6QR37LL

I have always believed in IXD as a forefront of developing and building and selling products customers would love.

I have been in the Product industry for long enough and used to recruit/closely work with a fairly large sized IXD and graphic design team in my previous company so understand the importance of this.

Cooper (http://www.cooper.com/about/books.html) is a major IXD company and I found references to some books by Alan Cooper from Marty Cagan’s book – Inspired so decided to give those a read.

Apple Mac Store – review

I have been playing around with the Apple Mac Store over the last weekend and found it absolutely enthralling and easy to use.

I wanted Keynote which I had been using on my MacBook White from quite a while. However, the iWork 09 website gives me the Keynote as part of the total package to buy and install or ship to.

I then tried to goto the Keynote website and it connected me to the Mac Store where I could purchase a licensed copy of Keynote for just $19.99 without Numbers and Pages (part of the bundle with iWork 09).

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 50,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 6 days for that many people to see it.

In 2010, there were 20 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 316 posts. There were 44 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 23mb. That’s about 4 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was December 13th with 221 views. The most popular post that day was Apple iStore in Bangalore.

Where did they come from?

Trainings/certifications for 2010

As I look back towards my 2010, it’s been an eventful year. The icing on the cake was the number of trainings I went to and got myself educated. I basically went back to school to learn more.

amazon kindle – amazing app for iPhone 4/iPad

I wanted to read up a few books and decided to download it wirelessly on my mobile devices namely the iPhone 4 and the iPad. It’s been about 1-year since I became a Certified Agile ScrumMaster and I am now in the Product Owner role in Product Management in a company which uses Agile methodologies heavily. It was but natural that I read up as much as I can on Agile best practices.

1. Agile Estimating and Planning – Mike Cohn

Agile estimating and planning - Mike Cohn

2. Succeeding with Agile: Software development using Scrum

Succeeding with Agile - Mike Cohn

It was fabulous! The ease of use of connectivity with amazon servers and the instant 1-click purchase made things so simple that I was left wondering: Why would anybody want to goto Barnes and Noble anymore when ease of use of book purchases trumps every other mechanism! This is high quality information at my fingertips within a single click!

I also was freely able to use amazon’s Manage my kindle option to send an ebook to my iPad and then because that was at home, transfer and download it on my iPhone 4 which I had in my pocket!

Awesome – amazon.com – the kindle app on the iPhone 4 and iPad rocks!

Silicon valley product group (SVPG)

Inspired - Marty Cagan

Image courtesy: http://www.amazon.com/Inspired-Create-Products-Customers-Love/dp/0981690408/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1293701512&sr=1-1

http://www.svpg.com

http://svpg.com/inspired-how-to-create-products-customers-love/

A couple of months ago, I got this fantastic opportunity to attend this training and found it extremely value adding. My friend recommended it to me and I jumped at this chance!

I am a products person and have been in this field from the beginning of my career so this is the only language I understand. I am in a job where I have to travel occasionally and work across distributed time zones and multiple cultures/people and it is a very valuable learning experience in building products and productized service offerings for the future!