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App review: OpenTable
“The UK’s number one restaurant booking website” is what it says on OpenTable’s homepage. One of the reasons why I was keen to find out more about OpenTable is the fact that it serves two types of customers since its connects restaurateurs with customers. This is a similar mechanism which Carwow specialises in, a website which…
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Learning about the basic constructs of XML
A few weeks ago I wrote about relational data models and databases and some of the basic principles which I learned about in an online Stanford course. As part of the same course I recently learned about “XML” which stands for Extensible Markup Language, a standard for data representation and exchange. Having worked in the entertainment…
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Some dos and don’ts for product managers
Do you ever wonder what to do when you start a new job!? How do you get a good sense of what’s going on and when can you start making some sort of an impact? Ken Norton, Product Partner at Google Ventures, has written a great article which offers practical tips to product managers on things they do…
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Site review: Carwow
“Be a happy car buyer” is what it says on the homepage of http://www.carwow.co.uk/. The promise here is that people will “Experience new car buying without any of the hassle or uncertainty”. Carwow’s proposition is effectively a reverse marketplace; enabling users to specify the car that they would like to buy and attracting offers based on their specifications. Once…
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“Web Metrics” (Book Review)
When I asked analytics expert Barry Mann about any good books on analytics, his advice was short and sweet: “simple, read Web Metrics by Jim Sterne“. Even though this book was published back in 2002, Barry recommended this as a great textbook on analytics. And so it proved to be. “Web Analytics – Proven methods…
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