Interesting article. In the end, it makes the case for tighter fiscal and economic integration of Europe and the Eurozone in particular. I hope we’ll see Germany adopt this view and push it in the coming months.
Is everybody misdiagnosing the euro area’s crisis? Jorg Bibow of the Levy Economics Institute in New York thinks so. He says the region’s problem is not sovereign debt at all, but rather an internal balance of payments crisis.
Why you should care. The rollout of Windows 8 has very important implications for not just Microsoft but everyone in the tech industry. In normal times, most people are unwilling to reconsider the basic decisions they have made about operating system and applications. They’ve spent a huge amount of time learning how to use the system, and the last thing they want to do is start learning all over again. That’s why the market share of a standard like Windows is so stable over time. But when a platform makes a major transition, people are forced to stop and reconsider their purchase. They’re going to have to learn something new anyway, so for a brief moment they are open to possibly switching to something else. The more relearning people have to do, the more willing they are to switch. Rapid changes in OS and app market share usually happen during transitions like this. Windows 8 is a revolutionary transition in Windows, easily the biggest change since the move from DOS to Windows in the early 1990s.
To move Europe away from the brink, voters and politicians on all sides need to stop asking themselves what’s fair and start asking themselves what’s possible.
Yahoo had a chance to buy Google in 2001 but then-CEO Terry Semel didn’t pull the trigger. I don’t think Instagram is the next Google, but Zuckerberg sure as shit doesn’t want Facebook to be the next Yahoo.
Microsoft really did spend a lot of time thinking Windows 8 through. They made some pretty bold bets. This article is well worth a read to get a sense of where they think the future of computing (especially PC computing) is going.
Whether it works in its Windows 8 embodiment or not, the idea of one-PC-device-to-rule-them-all has a strongly seductive sense to it. I hope their hardware partners will live up to the hype Microsoft is generating!
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After playing a bit with Asana today, I decided to try out the iPhone application as well. While it’s nice overall, there are a couple of points that I thought would deserve to be improved. General impressionAt first, I was a bit disoriented using the application. It does not follow the standard interface guidelines of other iPhone apps, which can be both a good and a bad thing. Asana’s app home screen:
For instance, there is no “back” button at the top left when looking at a task list or at a single task. Of course, it’s quite easy to go back to those pages by tapping on the left of the screen, but this leads to the second remark: the current interface wastes a bit of space of an already small screen estate. The task list does not use the full available screen real estate:
An iPhone screen only offers so much space to display information, and the app insists on not using the full available height and width to display the information on the page at hand. As a result, it can be tough to make out the name of a task from the task list screen. Screen-by-screen remarksI noted a couple additional things while trying out the app.The tag list doesn’t display how many tags are associated to each tag…
Leading the user to tap to see an empty tag page:
Task pages feature a “More” button…
That only gives access to one additional “Delete Task” button:
ConclusionIt feels like the current version of Asana’s iPhone application is a first try at building something cool, and, as such, it’s still a bit rough around the edges.
Important note: I like the app very much, which is why I went into the business of being nitty-picky to begin with. Given the care given to the UX of the web app, I was actually surprised to find these (admittedly small) issues in the iPhone app.
