good luck with getting into anything good with insane amounts of time & effort. capital is cheap.

How is the luck different from the luck involved with being an early employee? Labor is cheaper than capital.

that's a scam and a fake account.

this piece literally tells only half the story — the execution part.

what makes a great product manager is the raw product level insights and instincts that very few individuals have about the product itself and the direction the world is actually moving in.

this is basically the conjoined triangles of success kinda BS.

I think it really depends. If you have a visionary at the top (say the CEO, CPO, VP of product etc) then you just need good colonels and lieutenants below. If you're relying on bottom up innovation (e.g. Google's 20% time) then you absolutely need a different set of skills.

Alternative to your desktop client.

http://www.goofyapp.com/

I would love this for Windows. I've missed a Windows client since Trillian/Pidgin couldn't keep up with proprietary features, and Facebook discontinued its own messenger application.

I found out about Goofy a couple of months ago and when I'm at my desk, I don't have to use my phone at all for messaging (except for whatsapp).

Now I'd wish someone would do the same for Gmail chat / Hangouts, or maybe a way to combine all the webviews into one ;)

Hangouts new chrome extension, the one with float circles, it's pretty good, and works on Linux.

Unfortunately it doesn't work well on OS X and still requires me to run Chrome in background next to the Firefox leading to alot of annoying horrible window switching issues (for some reason chrome apps tend to get stuck in background when alt-tabbing, sometimes it just hangs, burns alot of memory for a really simple interface....)

All those "web apps" that were meant to be coming to the desktop and the flurry of excitement when browsers started adding the ability to add shortcuts on the desktop to a "web app" seems to have died down, and with good reason I think! Some people don't want to be sat with a browser open all day. Given that browsers are turning into mini-OSes themselves, it's irritating as they don't fit into the OS window management system easily (like awkward popups/alerts).

Whatsapp has a web client.

I saw this, but from what I understand it was only if you had an Android phone, and it needed to be beside you the whole time while it procesed the messages for you in the background?

Not beside you, just online, but yes.

Awesome, thanks! I was just looking for something like this today! :)

The Twitter app for iPad does an incredible job of solving the side-by-side portrait orientation split view problem. I wish the native mail app behaved like this.

Heck, I'd go one further and wish it were a native Cocoa Touch framework.

Chad Etzel wrote a pretty good Android app already! It's super well done.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jazzychad.hn&f...

Not to mention placing calls. That's a huge part of the interface.

What about voicemail transcriptions? These are sent by a slightly different address.

yes, working on adding support for voicemail alerts and transcriptions as well. coming soon! watch the blog for updates :)

Services on top of Prowl have been doing this in the exact same manner for quite some time. Glad to see a service like Notifo supporting this though. It has a somewhat nicer interface than the Prowl app.