Bill Watt’s Blog

Ok… I think the job might kill me but in a good way.

When I worked for FairMarket and for eBay I was pretty removed from users. I got to do tech support (and I loved it) and I worked directly for the customers who paid us (big companies) but there was a real separation from the end user. That’s ok… our business was different and we built cool tools that the people paying us wanted to let them better work with their end users. It was just a layer removed is all.

At Current I’m not exactly close to the users… but it won’t be long. I’m talking to the community team, using the site, and working my way to the point where we’ll have a product management voice out there too. The delay is that I’m still trying to get a handle on the day to day PM duties, working on better PRD’s, getting in front of deals, and generally trying to make all the internal stakeholders happy. But I can see the day when we have that stuff firing on all cylinders and I can get out there an work with the community directly.

Anyway- what prompted this? A community member posted the item, “what happened to current.com” and generated a good amount of discussion. My assumption is that by the time I wake up tomorrow the thread will be much longer.

I want to post a thread right now asking people for feedback but until I can be prepared (time wise) to actually address the expected flurry I’d better hold off. It won’t be long… and it will be good.

I don’t care what Alice says… Jerry Maguire rocks. Hell… tomorrow might be Jerry Maguire quote day!

Ofer better be on the lookout for this one:

“I am out here for you. You don’t know what it’s like to be ME out here for YOU. It is an up-at-dawn, pride-swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about, ok?”

We just ordered our Roku Netflix player and I just added Jerry Maguire to the watch instantly queue. In about a week I’ll be watching a bunch of movies on this toy and will let you know how it works.

I love the marketing behind the new Hulk movie and how it ends with this line, “every bit as good as Iron Man.” Wow… talk about a real world application of PageRank transfer.

But after a quick search on “AppleTV Hot” it appears this is par for the course with this blog post having a great picture of a hot AppleTV. Granted, it doesn’t make me feel better and we’ll be unplugging it when we’re not using it (yes, it is that hot).

This leads me to my next thought… I can’t wait to try the new Roku Netflix box and I’m a little jealous that DPP has his Roku already.

A good password is hard to guess. Check this google password post for some suggestions.

But in case anyone is reading this and thinks to them self, “this guy seems fun on his blog… it might be great to work for him!” now is your chance:

Check out this job post for an SEO job at Current that would be on my product management team. Let me know if you have any questions.