Comment on iPad Usability Study Reveals What We Do and Don’t Like In Apps by wonderwhy-er
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Friday, May 27, 2011
Comment on iPad Usability Study Reveals What We Do and Don’t Like In Apps by wonderwhy-er
Actually just day before read another criticism on touch/gesture interfaces usability http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/gestural_interfaces_a_step_backwards_in_usability_6.html that makes good points on how they are step backward for now and need a lot more work.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Google CEO Reveals Details On What's Next For Android (GOOG)
Google CEO Eric Schmidt offered some details about the next version of Android in a question-and-answer session at Mobile World Congress earlier today.
An audience member questioned Schmidt about Google's fragmented OS strategy, with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) for smartphones, Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) for tablets, and Chrome for netbooks.
Schmidt said that the next version of Android will be out in about six months, and will consolidate features from both 2.3 and 3.0 in a single platform.
He explained that the Android codenames are in alphabetical order -- G for Gingerbread, H for Honeycomb -- and confirmed the next codename would be a dessert beginning with the letter I. The likely name: Ice Cream Sandwich.
Schmidt also said that he wished Nokia had chosen Android instead of Windows Phone 7, and that he hopes Nokia will embrace Android in the future.
Apart from Android, he also said that Chrome is going to compete in the PC market, sketched out a vision of the future in which highly creative TV-like advertisements would be targeted to particular users and sent to mobile phones, and said that once-and-future Google CEO Larry Page was very happy NOT to travel to Barcelona -- he's leaving all the travel to Schmidt. He also reiterated his past statements that Microsoft, not Facebook, is Google's most important competitor.
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Google CEO Reveals Details On What's Next For Android (GOOG)
Monday, February 7, 2011
Facebook Cofounder Finally Reveals His New Startup
Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz is finally ready to reveal what he's been working on since he left Facebook two years ago.
His new startup, Asana, is a software company focused on making collaboration for businesses simpler.
TechCrunch shot a video of the one-hour demo and vision statement that Asana presented at an event for friends-and-family investors. (The demo section starts around 12:00 in the video, which is embedded below.)
It's hard to judge any product based on a short video demo, but at least Asana is taking a fresh approach to an old problem.
The basic idea: Users create tasks and post them to a public message board as a list. They can then update each task with new messages, creating a kind of real-time conversation about what's going on .(If you've ever used Yammer, it's similar in concept.)
All updates are synced in real time, and any user who has subscribed to that task will see an email message about the update. Users can respond to the email directly and the update will appear on the task board -- a nice step for users with mobile devices who otherwise might have trouble logging into the site to make a change.
At first glance, it looks like a dramatically simpler version of Microsoft's SharePoint, which also lets users create and update lists in a shared online space -- along with a ton of other functions.
But Asana is keeping the product simple on purpose to avoid the fate that befalls so many SharePoint (and other) "enterprise collaboration" installations: people use them for a week or a particular project, then abandon them forever.
That said, Asana doesn't look like "enterprise collaboration" software at this early beta stage. Rather, it's a useful tool for small teams -- particularly teams with members scattered across different locations -- to keep track of what everybody's doing. Enterprise collaboration implies all sorts of things that the video doesn't discuss: integration with data from a wide range of legacy enterprise software systems, complicated project management, real-time communication and presence detection, hardened security, and much more. You have to please IT as much as you please users, or it's no sale.
Asana may have luck selling to startups and mid-size businesses. But selling to enterprises is a whole different game. Even Google, with its massive resources, is having trouble turning its enterprise software into a serious revenue-generating business.
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Facebook Cofounder Finally Reveals His New Startup
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Photo Reveals That Google Is Still Baking Android Gingerbread — Literally
I know, I know. The indications were that the next version of Android, 2.3, was supposed to be out already. It has been nearly a week since an OHA member tweeted that the Nexus One would be getting the Gingerbread OTA update in "the next few days". So far, nothing. But Google is doing their best to keep whetting everyones' appetite.
Yesterday, the search giant sent out a tweet from their mobile account (yes, the one they paid to promote on Twitter two days ago). The tweet read, "Our cafes are baking something sweet", and contained a link to a TwitPic of dozens of gingerbread Android cookies. Cute Google, cute.
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