February 2010 Blog Posts

Business Speed

A lot was already written about the speed advantage of small businesses, in the time it takes the big established competitor to organize a pre-meeting to set the schedule for setting the agenda for a meeting to brainstorm if farther meetings are required to decide if a new product is worth exploring the small business can get the product to market. This speed advantage is especially important because nobody really know the right thing to do, there is no way to find out how profitable a product will be or what the effect of a change to the web...

A/B Split Testing – an introduction

Let’s imagine for a moment you run a web site, and that you make money from this web site somehow (for example selling time tracking software) – how can you improve the web site to increase your profits? One very common method is to blindly make changes to the site and hope for the best, sometimes it even work, but there got to be a better way. And that better way is A/B testing or split testing – in this method you show half the site visitors your old design while the other half get the new design – then you compare...

yaTimer Version 2.5.1 Update

yaTimer version 2.5.1 is a bug fix release with no new features, it is scheduled for release later this month and is almost ready. If you encountered any bugs in yaTimer now is a good chance to tell me about it so I can solve them for this version. You can report bugs using the contact form, clicking “Send Feedback” on yaTimer’s main menu, via e-mail or in a comment on this blog. yaTimer 2.5.1 will be a free upgrade for all existing customers.

Status Updates and Plans for 2010

I’ve been so busy lately I didn’t have time to blog so I’m writing this post to summarize everything I’m working on and my plans for the future. The most important thing for 2010 is the decision to retire StartMenuSearch and focus on time tracking and time management related products, this will let me expand the Nbd-Tech product line in a way that makes sense from a marketing perspective. I’ve released the second time tracking product - Squirrel Clock – and I have 4 (yes four) other time management products in various stages of planning and development. ...