Will this battle ever get old? I think not. Fortunately, there is never a shortage of beef between the two camps, and people keep creating flammable content to feed the fires of war. Best of all is the creative stuff. The Mac Vs. PC music video was great, but this is taking it to another level. I’m not sure how long it takes to put something like this together, but its surely not a project to take lightly. These guys did a great job. I look forward to the sequel.
Needless to say, Excel, GoogleDocs, Wikis, Word, are not the right tools for managing product requirements within an organization. Its like using a screwdriver as a hammer. That said, I’ve seen a few products that have steep learning curves which are unacceptable to my organization. Not everyone will spend all night figuring out a new system(nor would I want them to, they should be building the products). Accompa seems to be the best thing to fill the void, but I’m curious if any Product Managers out there have any recs. Oh, and money is not just an object.
Over at techflash.com, Todd Bishop, co-founder and managing editor, decided to play around with Amazon’s latest iPhone App. You take a photo and submit it to Amazon’s infamous Mechanical Turk, then it spits out a product recommendation based on the pic. Sounds like a recipe for wacky recommendations, but I haven’t played with it yet.
Anyways, it looks like the app got a little confused with Todd’s BBQ and mistook it for an iPod Nano, as you can see below:
As a recommendation system geek at Baynote, I always love to see funny product recommendations. I loved the “My Tivo Thinks I’m Gay” write up a few years back. Most of the wacky recommendations I have seen has been from Amazon. I’m not sure if that’s a function of their methodology or popularity. Here’s the latest I saw on a blog post:
For those of you non-gamer geeks out there, Neverwinter nights is a medieval fantasy game with a very similar look to that of Lord of the Rings. Not exactly a close match to “Paws and Claws: Pampered Pets.”
If anyone has had any funny or strange recommendations, please let me know!
Needless to say, Excel, GoogleDocs, Wikis, Word, are not the right tools for managing product requirements within an organization. Its like using a screwdriver as a hammer. That said, I’ve seen a few products that have steep learning curves which are unacceptable to my organization. Not everyone will spend all night figuring out a new system(nor would I want them to, they should be building the products). Accompa seems to be the best thing to fill the void, but I’m curious if any Product Managers out there have any recs. Oh, and money is not just an object.
