Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 30, 2009

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.

Advertising 60

Advertising Customer Experience Differentiation Presentation 60

Pragmatic Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2009

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?

Reporting Tools 70

Reporting Tools Data Visualization Analytic Tools Technical Review 70

Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 25, 2009

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.

Advertising 60

Advertising Startups Definition UX 60

Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 16, 2009

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.

User Testing 60

User Testing Customer Experience Advertising Startups 60

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.

Product Management

Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 11, 2009

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.

Development 60

Development Framework Data Visualization Vision 60

Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 5, 2009

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.

Startups 60

Startups Technical Review Customer Experience Events 60

Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 1, 2009

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.

Engineering 60

Engineering Web Development Web Developers Framework 60

Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 19, 2009

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.

Customer Experience 60

Customer Experience Data Visualization Government Definition 60