benhedrington

ASUS RT-N66U is nice, didn't have a need for AC. I have that and an older Netgear WNR3500l (v1) running upstairs and down same SSID different channels. Tomato is my firmware of choice although ASUS with Merlin is pretty solid.

There were some pretty good router deal on Black Friday, be on the lookout for the ASUS on Cyber Monday I'd say.

Best Buy (Minneapolis, MN) - Full time, strong in HQ presence required to start. Team growing quickly working on more flexible officing as we grow.

Best Buy is looking for an entrepreneurial minded Product Managers to be key part of our fast growing Digital Experience and Mobile team focused on producing a diverse array of Mobile and digital products on the go, online or in-store. This role will bring to life new digital products that empower consumers to learn, explore, and engage with consumer electronics across Best Buy's digital and physical touch points. Official job post: http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/job/Richfield-Senior-Product-Lin...

I am the hiring manager, willing to talk over email, phone, etc. No need to go through the machine to simply learn more. ben dot hedrington at bestbuy.com, ben at hedrington dot com or http://linkedin.com/in/benhedrington

Google doc here:

https://docs.google.com/a/hedrington.com/document/d/1QshvPcS...

For what it is worth looks like they just released an iOS app as a companion for the book. $15 is the price. It appears to capture the methods of the book plus contains videos teaching the method. No reviews yet.

Best Buy (Minneapolis, MN) - Full time, strong in HQ presence required to start. Team growing quickly working on more flexible officing (possibly west coast, remote) as we grow.

Best Buy is looking for an entrepreneurial minded Product Managers to be key part of our fast growing Digital Experience and Mobile team focused on producing a diverse array of Mobile and digital products on the go, online or in-store. This role will bring to life new digital products that empower consumers to learn, explore, and engage with consumer electronics across Best Buy's digital and physical touch points.

Official job post: http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/job/Richfield-Senior-Product-Lin... http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/job/Richfield-Product-Line-Manag...

I am the hiring manager, willing to talk over email, phone, etc. No need to go through the machine to simply learn more. ben dot hedrington at bestbuy.com, ben at hedrington dot com or http://linkedin.com/in/benhedrington

Thanks man... hate these application sites and the people they must turn away. Feel free to contact me directly if interested and I can make sure you don't get lost in those machines.

Best Buy (Minneapolis, MN) - Full time, strong in HQ presence required to start. Team growing quickly working on more flexible officing (west coast, remote) as we grow.

Best Buy is looking for an entrepreneurial minded Product Manager to be key part of our fast growing "Digital Experience Team" business; focused on producing a diverse array of Mobile and wider digital products; to help envision new digital tools to deliver Best Buy's strategic goal of 'making technology work for you'. This role will bring to life new digital products that empower consumers to learn, explore, and engage with consumer electronics across Best Buy's digital and physical touch points.

Official job post: http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/job/Richfield-Product-Line-Manag...

I am the hiring manager, willing to talk over email, phone, etc. No need to go through the machine to simply learn more. ben dot hedrington at bestbuy.com or http://linkedin.com/in/benhedrington

Best Buy (Minneapolis, MN) - Full time, strong in HQ presence required, team growing quickly working on more flexible officing as they grow.

Best Buy is looking for an entrepreneurial minded Product Manager to be key part of our fast growing "Digital Experience Team" business; focused on producing a diverse array of Mobile and wider digital products; to help envision new digital tools to deliver Best Buy's strategic goal of 'making technology work for you'. This role will bring to life new digital products that empower consumers to learn, explore, and engage with consumer electronics across Best Buy's digital and physical touch points.

Official job post: http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/job/Richfield-Product-Line-Manag...

I am the hiring manager, willing to talk over email, phone, etc. No need to go through the machine to simply learn more. ben dot hedrington at bestbuy.com or http://linkedin.com/in/benhedrington

Yep, not saying it was a secret... Tim O'Reilly had it nailed back then... but the story I have to remind myself of is that too many times we go off face value rather than digging in and listening to people like Tim... This happens all over the place and it was worth capturing the story that replays in my head each time I see a new revision of it.

If anyone from Dropbox is listening/interested I may be able to setup a conversation with the IT guys if you are working on a solution... email me.

I hear the control part but what control is there really... Don't you think the physical files on the laptop of the average corporate worker are more likely to be compromised than dropbox itself?

Not sure companies will survive and be competent if it all goes this way...

Do we need FDIC (from the banking world) for data?

Saw Jason live at DLD talking about "the pivot" it seemed like a genuine change backed up by some very quality video snippets from the new site... much different than his internet persona I had read about in the past. He even apologized to the crowd for "talking too much" when he was younger. A new leaf for sure.

BBYOpen, Best Buy's API team, found some other interesting uses for the $99 Android tablet... :)

http://bbyopen.com/2010/11/maylong-android-tablet-more-versa...

Anyone here doing startups in China? From inside or outside the country?

Happy to hear you see that, we are trying every day to pivot where we need to... it's hard... it's a big company but these posts remind me we have definitely made movement... thanks.

As you might imagine we didn't have all the say on the license we chose... fell free to send over some educational links we can share so next time we pick something that would make :/ -> :)

I guess to some degree... we just thought if it was worth it for us to build vs. buy we'd share what we made with others choosing that road to get them started. Our site is here: http://bestbuyideax.com

The team was going to publish this on github as well but never got around to it, I'll see what I can do.

Good idea, I'll let the team know that would widen the potential user base considerably. I think you are right for our needs recency is not as important as mass up votes.

From the site:

"BBYIDX is a free and open source idea-gathering application written in Ruby and distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License. It's the basis of the Best Buy IdeaX website and was created by and supported by Best Buy Enterprise Services Inc and Bust Out Solutions, Inc. The standard release is known as BBYIDX and features the ability for users to simply post, tag, comment and vote on ideas. It also features the ability for administrators to moderate incoming ideas and comments as well as assign work-flow to certain ideas for further exploration. It also offers the ability to group ideas by "current" or category to create new "currents" which serve as problems or issues to be solved by comments and moderation. It also features read and write APIs that can be used to make access to an instance of BBYIDX via another website or mobile application."

In the same vein Best Buy created http://bestbuyideax.com and made the engine free and open source at http://bbyidx.com.

You are right this is about the home interface but to me that is one of the bigger disruptions. I will see what else we can switch off.

Not a fan of this article, many inconsistencies in it as @mmastrac points out but to be honest in the big company I work in points of view held by people making the decisions of what we all use are similar as of now so having this out is important.

I work for Best Buy and I believe some of that's been tried probably not to the degree to make it comfortable enough...

My thought after reading this was how do we enable his Dad to sell a new one out store stock (maybe via mobile device) and get some sort of affiliate pay thus decentralizing the whole concept... seems very possible by APIs Best Buy can create only a need to make it easier to use in any living room by anyone.