Eating one’s own dog food is a term used to refer to the practice of actually using the products you make. We certainly believe in doing that, and I had the opportunity recently to use my travel journal on a short holiday break.
I’m going to be biased so I won’t bore you with tales of how great it is. Instead I’ll describe how I used it. The first thing I wanted to do was add entries for the places we were going – hotel addresses and flight numbers. With a quick google search I found a photo from the hotel website to add to the entry.
The first couple of days we were away I had convenient access to the Internet, so I updated my journal through the website and added some photos from the day. However I still use the phone to send text updates during the day – making a short note of interesting things we were doing, or the names of good restaurants or pubs we visited.
The rest of the trip I didn’t have Internet access so I used the phone exclusively and I found myself sending text posts when we did something interesting, and also used the posts as placeholders for photos. Later when I did have Internet access I added photos I had taken to those posts.
Other people at ekit are using the travel journal when they travel, and customers are telling us about their experience through the feedback form on the website. All of this feedback is feeding into our development process to to improve the way the travel journal works and to help us prioritize the new features we add.
Eating our own dog food
Published September 18, 2008 commentary 1 CommentTags: travel, travel journal
Eating one’s own dog food is a term used to refer to the practice of actually using the products you make. We certainly believe in doing that, and I had the opportunity recently to use my travel journal on a short holiday break.
I’m going to be biased so I won’t bore you with tales of how great it is. Instead I’ll describe how I used it. The first thing I wanted to do was add entries for the places we were going – hotel addresses and flight numbers. With a quick google search I found a photo from the hotel website to add to the entry.
The first couple of days we were away I had convenient access to the Internet, so I updated my journal through the website and added some photos from the day. However I still use the phone to send text updates during the day – making a short note of interesting things we were doing, or the names of good restaurants or pubs we visited.
The rest of the trip I didn’t have Internet access so I used the phone exclusively and I found myself sending text posts when we did something interesting, and also used the posts as placeholders for photos. Later when I did have Internet access I added photos I had taken to those posts.
Other people at ekit are using the travel journal when they travel, and customers are telling us about their experience through the feedback form on the website. All of this feedback is feeding into our development process to to improve the way the travel journal works and to help us prioritize the new features we add.