So-Called Expert: Avoid Cyberspace Blunders on MyFace.com

A good product is something that helps people solve problems. A good product developer knows what those problems are because he knows the market, i.e. the people who have problems that need solving.

What a lot of people don't seem to understand is that the Internet is a market. Attitudes, habits and expectations are different on the Internet than in any other medium.

So it's not surprising that a "workplace/etiquette expert" touting how to "Avoid Making Costly Cyberspace Etiquette Blunders" doesn't get the Internet market, so much that she screws up the name MySpace.

Picture after the jump.

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Help Needed: A Business Credit Card

Now that our product development is really getting underway, we've obviously found ourselves in need of money. Since all of our early expenses will be out of pocket, I'm looking for a business credit card that is suitable for a small business.

This will be our first business credit card, and we don't need a large line of credit. But I don't know where to go.

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5 Steps to Making It (Big)

I'm all about making it big here at Making It Big, so when I saw "The get-started guide to making it" on CNNMoney.com (via Young and Broke), I had to know.

The tips are good, mostly common sense but worth re-iterating. These are all within the context of working for someone else, which is not exactly what I consider "making it," but everyone has his or her own definition.

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5 Reasons Why Transparency Rules The Internet

The Internet has revolutionized the way that information is communicated, distributed and discovered. Want to find a piece of information about anything or anyone? The Web is the first place you go.

Anything and everything can be found online, and Web surfers now expect to be in the loop when it comes to product development, as well. The open source movement thrives online and has pushed open, transparent methods of product development.

On the Internet, transparency rules. Here's 5 reasons why online products should be developed transparently.

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New Product Development Method, Part 1: The Idea

Welcome to the first in what I hope will be a continuing series on the development, design and execution of a new product that I am working on. My plan with the New Product Development Method series is to document every stage that will take place in the process to get a new product to market.

The first step in developing any new product is easily the most important and most difficult: the idea.

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