January, 2009

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Monetize the Twitter API

Sachin Rekhi

Silicon Alley Insider recently announced The Create a Twitter Revenue Model contest. I decided to throw together an entry and today SAI has picked it as one of the finalists. So I thought I would write a blog post summarizing my submission. Thinking about business models for Twitter is always a fun exercise. I see Twitter as the epitome of web 2.0 - a sticky communication app with few differentiated user segments, minimal expressed interest, and no purchase intent.

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Eye of the Storm, Part II: the Genetics of Successful Scrumming

Pragmatic Marketing

In May 2008, I authored an article that discussed the day-to-day challenges facing the Product Manager in the Agile world. In that article, I remarked that the debate surrounding the role of the Scrum Master and Product Owner was worthy of a paper all of their own. A colleague of mine called my bluff the other day by asking me “ What’s the issue with Scrum Masters and Product Owners?

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Make Something People Will Buy

Sachin Rekhi

Y Combinator is famous for its well known motto " Make Something People Want." This very simple statement serves as a guiding principle for a startup, helping to focus it on this core goal early on: to ensure that its product provides compelling value to its target audience. It also de-emphasizes many secondary issues that, while important, are not likely to be an early cause of failure for a startup.

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The Rise of Media APIs

Sachin Rekhi

Last year at the SocialMedia Business School I gave a presentation on Media APIs and how they could be leveraged to enhance existing experiences or build entirely new services around freely available media content. Since I have received many follow up questions, I thought I would take the opportunity to expand on the topic. Media APIs. 2008 definitely saw a rise in media APIs across the major media content types with ProgrammableWeb cataloging 38 music, 42 video, and 37 photo APIs.

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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Palm Gets it Right With Mojo Developer Platform

Sachin Rekhi

The most exciting news out of CES 2009 was the Palm announcement of the Palm Pre, webOS, and Palm Mojo Application Framework. Palm to my surprise has reinvented itself and gotten back into the smartphone game with the release of the sexy Palm Pre device and new webOS operating system. Early indications suggests it should be in the same consideration set as Apple iPhone, Android G1, and Blackberry Storm.

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5 Music Startups to Watch in 2009

Sachin Rekhi

It's that time of year that everyone is putting together their predictions for 2009 and so I decided to do one of my own. Over the past year I've had the opportunity to work with a variety of music startups. Not only with the two music startups I've been directly involved with ( Anywhere.FM and imeem ), but also countless music startups looking to leverage the imeem Media Platform APIs I manage at imeem.

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Is Google App Engine Ready for Prime Time?

Sachin Rekhi

I recently took the time to build a web application on Google App Engine and wanted to share my thoughts on the experience and the pros and cons of Google App Engine as a web development platform. TuneChimp. The app I developed is TuneChimp, a music mashup that was recently named ProgrammableWeb's Mashup of the Day and a finalist in Mashable's Y! BOSS Challenge.

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Does Facebook Connect Deliver on its Promise?

Sachin Rekhi

The announcement of Facebook Connect in May 2008 brought the next major chapter in the Facebook platform story. After building the first and most successful social networking platform, Facebook decided to expand beyond its own destination to bring the power of the social graph to any third party site. Facebook Connect promised to deliver on the five following tenants : trusted authentication, real identity, friend linking, dynamic privacy, and social distribution.