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Posted on 29 December 2011

This is Brian DeWitt’s Product Manager portfolio. The list begins with the most recent item and continues down to the least recent at the bottom. 

» At Turner I simultaneously managed their TV Everywhere Authentication on websites and connected devices (smartphones, tablets, GoogleTV, etc.) with internal, external (front-end app development & technology vendors like Adobe) and partner (content providers like Comcast, Verizon, etc.) for the following platforms and properties:

» At TheHighwayGirl.com I managed:

  • the platform switch from a custom CMS to Wordpress
  • redesign and relaunch of the main website
  • design, development management and final coding of the Roku channel

» Socialthing, a first-of-its-kind digital life manager, was a company I co-founded. During my time there I managed all development, investor relations, materials & requirements gathering, process revisions and client education/feature requests. Socialthing was purchased by AOL in August 2008 and has since been turned into AOL Lifestream (http://lifestream.aol.com)

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A Nifty Internet Video!

Posted 1 month ago


Gary Vaynerchuk isn’t the only one predicting the end - or at least very harsh times ahead - for RIM and the Blackberry. Gary V is spot on about RIM. As a Blackberry user of many years, I agree that RIM’s management fools don’t Get It™.

Here’s how RIM can survive, if they want to. Who knows? The CEOs may not care.

  • Cut the CEO count in half. Or add 3 more so they can have a basketball team and make all meetings have to be conducted during a game to 11. Sell tickets to the meetings
  • Make the keyboard a peripheral for all smartphones. I love being able to not look at the phone when I need to type a quick text or email. A boxed BB keyboard that is MFi (http://developer.apple.com/programs/mfi/)? Yes please now
  • Use Android as the OS base. RIM already switched to the Webkit browser and bought QNX to run Android apps on the Playbook. So just become an Android shop like other device makers. Crapping up the Android OS seems to work well for Motorola, HTC, LG and Samsung.
  • Get a better device naming group/algorithm. Whats with all the 8xxx and 9xxx for Curve and Bold, respectively? Non-tech-junkie consumers, judging by Android and iPhone devices, like either a company name and a word (Samsung Galaxy) or the device and its nth version (iPhone 4). The occasional one-letter modifier works too but a name and 4 digits?
  • Let the people designing and developing the devices and software actually create the devices and software. No more huge design committees and endless meetings. Encourage and reward rapid prototyping by individuals in the company. Remember that letter to RIM by an employee that circulated? There are people working at RIM that care and can probably save the company. They certainly couldn’t do any worse than the current process.

I really think I’m on to something with that first point. What do you think?

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25)

Posted on 28 December 2011

  1. Jimmy Eat World (Holiday) (1)
  2. The Drifters (Holiday) (1)
  3. Guster (Holiday) (1)
  4. Warren G (1)
  5. Sixpence None The Richer (Holiday) (1)

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A Nifty Internet Video!

Posted 1 month ago


thedailywhat:

Slow News Day of the Day: An adorable lil’ assassin makes a precious attempt on President Obama’s life in plain sight of 17 Secret Service agents and his mommy.

[wonkette.]

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A Nifty Internet Video!

Posted 1 month ago


topgear:

Doctor Who’s David Tennant on Top Gear, discussing the top speed of the ‘TARDIS’

(Source: treadstoned)

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Picture Time!

Posted 23 December 2011

topgear:

James May on singing Christmas carols in the car

“…I decided to see how many Christmas carols I could remember. I hadn’t done any carol singing all year, and the car seemed like a good place for it. It may be the only place, as public carol singing has now almost certainly been made illegal. 
All went well. I could do all of Oh Come, including the descant, and most of hark the Herald and Once in Royal.”

topgear:

James May on singing Christmas carols in the car

“…I decided to see how many Christmas carols I could remember. I hadn’t done any carol singing all year, and the car seemed like a good place for it. It may be the only place, as public carol singing has now almost certainly been made illegal. 

All went well. I could do all of Oh Come, including the descant, and most of hark the Herald and Once in Royal.”


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A Nifty Internet Video!

Posted 2 months ago


thedailywhat:

Very Important Interview of the Day: “When the going gets tough, the tough make the best of what they can find around the house”: Rock Center’s Brian Williams speaks with Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp and their son — Marcel the Shell With Shoes On.

[rockcenter.]

Bonus: A frank discussion on gender with Marcel’s “parents.”

First saw this when we were in the hospital, waiting for our little one to arrive. 

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A Nifty Internet Video!

Posted 2 months ago


thedailywhat:

Morning Fluff: If there is anything in this world cuter than confused corgi puppies, I’ve yet to see it — and that includes the time I saw puppies exchange love letters with kittens on a rainbow made of gumdrops.

[dpaf.]

INSANEOMGIWANTACORGI!

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Picture Time!

Posted 13 December 2011

thedailywhat:

Before And After of the Day: Google today unveiled the result of an initiative to document the aftermath of Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami through Google Maps Street View.
A special website — Build the Memory — has also been set up to host the images gathered through a 44,000 kilometer trek across the affected regions.
From Google’s blog: 

A virtual tour via Street View profoundly illustrates how much these natural disasters have transformed these communities. If you start inland and venture out toward the coast, you’ll see the idyllic countryside change dramatically, becoming cluttered with mountains of rubble and debris as you get closer to the ocean. In the cities, buildings that once stood proud are now empty spaces.

[googleblog.]

thedailywhat:

Before And After of the Day: Google today unveiled the result of an initiative to document the aftermath of Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami through Google Maps Street View.

A special website — Build the Memory — has also been set up to host the images gathered through a 44,000 kilometer trek across the affected regions.

From Google’s blog

A virtual tour via Street View profoundly illustrates how much these natural disasters have transformed these communities. If you start inland and venture out toward the coast, you’ll see the idyllic countryside change dramatically, becoming cluttered with mountains of rubble and debris as you get closer to the ocean. In the cities, buildings that once stood proud are now empty spaces.

[googleblog.]

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