Tag: technology
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Meerkat (Product Review)
The other day is saw a discussion about whether Meerkat will or won’t last. Meerkat is a simple video app which lets people stream live to their Twitters. It launched about two weeks ago and has been talked about (and used) a lot since. Let’s do a quick review of the app: Main learning point: It…
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Mr & Mrs Smith – Learning from Tamara Heber-Percy
Last week I wrote about Mr & Mrs Smith, a 12-year old UK company that curates luxury boutique hotels, and its personalisation drive. A few days ago I attended a talk by Tamara Heber-Percy, co-founder and CTO of Mr & Mrs Smith. In this talk, largely aimed at MBA students at London Business School, Tamara talked…
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Product management at Amazon – What is it like?
Since reading the well known answer on Quora about Amazon’s approach to product development and product management by Ian McAllister I’ve been intrigued about Amazon and its product management function. In his Quora answer, McAllister – General Manager for AmazonSmile explains about Amazon’s approach called “working backwards”. I guess most non-Amazon product people are familiar with the internal press releases that Amazon product people…
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Thread (Product Review)
Thread looks like the perfect site for fashionable men or those who perhaps want to become a bit more fashionable. It was founded by serial entrepreneur Kieran O’Neill who explained to GQ at the end of last year what Thread is all about: “what’s special is that you have access to the exact same stylists that celebrities or wealthy…
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Find similar fashion through Cortexica visual search
Last week, I went to a great talk by Alex Semenzato, who works as a Business Development Manager at Cortexica and is founder of FashTech. In his talk, Alex explained about the visual technology as developed by Cortexica. He discussed this technology in the context of fashion products, making the case for how visual search…
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