I’m using Thinkfuse with our account managers so we can easily capture the status of various customer accounts, comment on them and see the history of everything rolled up. Side-note:  I know someone who wrote a script to crawl GitHub to identify the best coders for recruiting purposes! More startups should be using this. MORE >>

That requires a team of people including an information architect, a designer, a front-end coder, a back-end developer, a quality assurance expert, and a project manager to coordinate all of the work. Americans spent $200 billion online in 2011. The opportunity for retailers is huge--but you're not going to grab it with a DIY website. MORE >>

Even celebrities backed it: Jimmy Fallon, Ashton Kutcher, and both Lady Gaga's and Madonna's managers invested. Goldstein's latest read is simple: Coders are the new rock stars. As Goldstein set to work on other projects, Chasen became a full-time coder at betaworks. Last summer, Turntable.fm is Amazing." They look tired. MORE >>

Many of the founding teams we back include a strong coder and a strong product person. The product person sets the overall requirements, specs them, focuses on the UI and UX and manages the process. The engineering person builds the product or manages the team that builds the product, or both. They will be managers. MORE >>

The rest of the room was filled with designers, coders, and especially designers who code. saw Kevin Cheng ( @k ) talk about product managing the creation of #newtwitter. Brooklyn Beta Originally uploaded by Simon Collison. Yesterday afternoon, I hopped onto the F Train and got off at Bergen Street, my old subway stop. loved it. MORE >>