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  • On Latency

    Andrew Certain helps getting an understanding of percentile measurements and why it is important to look at certain things from specific perspectives. I found this useful.

  • U-Bahn in Stockholm

    Pac-Man <3

  • Die PARTEI zum Urheberrecht.

  • Empowering the Product Team

    Point Towards the Mountain

    Set Rules for the Journey

    Focus on Learning and Teaching

    Empowerment is Worth it

    Source: 4 Keys to Empowering Your Product Team – Mind the Product

  • Someone is pulling emergency brakes on subways

    New York is facing an unusual incarnation of Denial of Service, in this case public transport. Just like on the web, thats’s extremely annoying and in this case, really has impact on peoples’s lives. From the article:

    “The reports caused major disruption,” says Wikipedia, “affecting approximately 140,000 passengers and 1,000 flights.”

    Asymmetric warfare: someone is pulling emergency brakes on NYC subway cars

    Source: Asymmetric warfare: someone is pulling emergency brakes on NYC subway cars / Boing Boing

  • Google stored G Suite passwords in plaintext

    In today’s edition of privacy related topics, it is Google that apparently stored customer passwords in plaintext. Google didn’t disclose which (enterprise) customers have been affected, but was clear that improper access is out of question. With this recent incident, Google joins ranks of Facebook, Instagram, but also Twitter and LinkedIn.

    Google says it discovered a bug that caused some of its enterprise G Suite customers to have their passwords stored in an unhashed form for about 14 years.

    Source: Google stored some G Suite passwords in plaintext for 14 years

  • Auth0 Raises $103M

    Auth0 Logo
    Auth0 Logo

    Auth0, a Bellevue, WA-based Identity-as-a-Service platform provider, closed a $103M Series E funding.The round valued the company at more than $1 Billion
    Source: Auth0 Raises $103M in Funding, Valued at Over $1 Billion | FinSMEs

  • Product Management vs Product Ownership

    The organisation that I am part of introduced an overlaying Product Management department only fairly recently, less than a year ago. Early in the time it was exciting to see this role dedicated to market and customer perspective, but it raised questions over how this was different from Product Ownership from day one.

    Over the course of the past year many discussions have been led and lot’s of articles have been led. This week Anthony Murphy shared his perspective and experiences on the Product Coalition. While my own experiences with this separated role have been predominantly positive, I tend to see the necessity to split responsibilities for larger organisations. The article is reflecting on why the Agile movement created the Product Owner in the way it did and how it was meant to abolish the Product Manager to start with.

    A story of love, hate, oppression and triumph

    Source: The Collision of Product Management and Product Ownership

  • Instagram had private contact data scraped

    Another week, another Facebook leak. This time an Instagram dataset with apparently scraped profile information was found online.

    A massive database containing contact information of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been found online. The database, hosted by Amazon Web Services, was left exposed and without a password allowing anyone to look inside. At the time of writing, the database had over 49 million records — but was growing by […]

    Source: Millions of Instagram influencers had their private contact data scraped and exposed | TechCrunch

  • Competitive Analysis and Strategy To Win

    A product’s success is not only defined by its features. Whether it can win in the market to a large extent is owed to the environment it is offered. Customer requirements, competitive offering, market climate, environmental conditions, total cost of ownership (TCO) can have an impact on the products success. A competitive overview is essential for any product manager and a competitive analysis can help sharpen the view.

    Product School just today let Joao Fiadeiro share the experience he gathered during his tenure at Google as a Product Manager for Youtube.

    Competitive Analysis and Strategy To Win by YouTube PM in Product School.

    Competitive Analysis
    Competitive Product Analysis

    Source: Competitive Analysis and Strategy To Win by YouTube PM – Product School