After yesterday's bout of silliness, here's something a little more substantial....
Does the mere mention of marketing cause your lip to curl up in a snarl? Yeah, me too. But, somebody's gotta push product, and there are a few new articles out that cover the marketing of software, and how developers and marketers can play nice:
- Fuzzyblog has an article on "Marketing Software When You Are a Small Company" which provides a nice overview of software marketing (link obtained from Makovision, who credits Xblog, who credits...)
- Builder.com has an article for developers on working with the sales team that can help each side understand what the other does and how they can work together
Also on a quasi-marketing-related tack is an article I found via Slashdot on the economics underlying the game console price war.
BTW, should you have found the article I linked to recently called "Designing e-Business Web Sites" a bit fluffy, I apologize. I only glanced at Part 1, which turns out to be very rudimentary (do we still need to talk about colours and fonts?). At least Part 2, which discusses the three types of audiences who visit a website, is a bit more informative. Such are the perils of indiscriminate link propagation....
Going back to another link I found via Makovision, Boxes and Arrows has an article on designing on both sides of your brain, which is all about using analytical skills and creative skills equally. It reminds me a lot of an older piece from A List Apart titled "Usability Experts are from Mars, Graphic Designers are from Venus". Bottom line: it's all about balance, people. Bottle of Ex not included.
And if that's not enough for you to read in your copious spare time, the latest issue of Business 2.0 in online. Can't say that there's anything that jumps out and screams at me -- another article on young hotshots in the tech world, another article on where the jobs are, another article on up-and-coming technologies to watch.... It's your call if you want to got for it or not.