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Product Failure is An Opportunity

The Product Coalition

The messaging feature “Slack” quickly became more successful than the game, and Glitch was cut in 2012. Odeo was a small podcasting startup in 2005. It allowed users to call a phone number to leave a message, which automatically created a web-based podcast. A great example is Tiny Spec, a former gaming company.

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Paving the Cow Path and Other Stories by Simon Cross

Mind the Product

The lesson here for Cross is that every development in the Facebook photos product can be linked to that moment in 2005 when the team saw how people were using the photos: “Instead of trying to change people’s behaviour, they codified it.”. Within a few years Facebook had more photos than the other top 10 photo services combined.

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Why we need Product Management, with Rich Mironov

BrainMates

They want the message. I’ve been working at Agile since maybe 2005. What sales wants more than anything in the world is a story that they can repeat to users or prospects that will cause the users and prospects to fill out a purchase order or send money. They want the high level. They want the benefits. Agile Development.

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Why Product Management Is Not The Same As Oprah’s Favorite Things

The Product Guy

For example, in 2005 the audience received items such as a Burberry coat, an iPod, and a Blackberry phone, but in 2006 each audience member received a $1,000 gift card and a camcorder and were told to record themselves using the money to do a good deed for someone else. You don’t get to choose the favorite things alone.

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4 Challenges Every Growing SaaS Business Will Face: Lessons from Micha? Sadowski of Brand24

Userpilot

explains, “but back in 2005, this was new and innovative.”. Using an app like Userpilot , you can customize your onboarding flows and use in-app messaging to drive product adoption and cut down on that frustration. The best cold messages do these 3 things: Personalize it with the reason why you’re reaching out to them.

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Microsoft Kin, iPhone, and the perils of chasing hipness

UX Planet

Even in 2005, Facebook only succeeded because it fulfilled a practical need for its users. Messages sent from anything other than an iPhone are depicted as green speech balloons while those from an iPhone are blue. Ridiculous as it sounds, there is a social stigma around your messages coming through as green.

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Collection, Analysis, Action: A Beginner’s Guide to the Product Stack

Mixpanel

In 2005, fresh off of an IPO the previous year, Google analyzed how it could invest its war chest in a forward-looking manner. The world of engagement and messaging is powerful, but can admittedly be daunting for the uninitiated. Whatever you choose, be sure to approach collection with intentionality.