Comments on: On features and bugs http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/01/30/on-features-and-bugs/ a blog about information Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tb http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/01/30/on-features-and-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-94322 tb Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:45:58 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/01/30/on-features-and-bugs/#comment-94322 flickr is another great example of this, and twitter is too in that a company's side project became it's main focus - although twitter is even more interesting in that it's succeeded in spite of being incredibly buggy and unreliable. flickr is another great example of this, and twitter is too in that a company’s side project became it’s main focus – although twitter is even more interesting in that it’s succeeded in spite of being incredibly buggy and unreliable.

]]> By: JP http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/01/30/on-features-and-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-93883 JP Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:40:41 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/01/30/on-features-and-bugs/#comment-93883 Interesting line of thought. Make the product fit for someone. Anyone. But make it fit. Work with the customer. Keep it open, and you will find that other "untargeted" customers will follow. There goes the concept of channels.... Interesting line of thought.

Make the product fit for someone. Anyone. But make it fit. Work with the customer. Keep it open, and you will find that other “untargeted” customers will follow. There goes the concept of channels….

]]> By: John Dodds http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/01/30/on-features-and-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-93873 John Dodds Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:23:08 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/01/30/on-features-and-bugs/#comment-93873 Coincidentally, I mused yesterday on my blog about the "unintended" effects of marketing with specific reference to the Boston security alerts caused by urban spam for a TV show. In similar vein, you will be aware of the software packages targetted at "small businesses" that were rejected by them but fund great success and take-up by small dpeartments within big businesses because they were more manageable than the company-wide systems. The bottom line is I think increasingly to make something effective at meeting a specific type of need and then letting the audience decide or co-create the actual manifestation of that need. Coincidentally, I mused yesterday on my blog about the “unintended” effects of marketing with specific reference to the Boston security alerts caused by urban spam for a TV show.

In similar vein, you will be aware of the software packages targetted at “small businesses” that were rejected by them but fund great success and take-up by small dpeartments within big businesses because they were more manageable than the company-wide systems.

The bottom line is I think increasingly to make something effective at meeting a specific type of need and then letting the audience decide or co-create the actual manifestation of that need.

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