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Monday, July 23, 2012

Asana And Enterprise

English: Photograph of Justin Rosenstein, crea...
English: Photograph of Justin Rosenstein, creator of "Asana." (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I think Asana is upto something.

In It to Win It: Asana Raises $28M Series B, Peter Thiel Joins the Board
The Root of the Problem: Asana Boldly Aims to Kill Email
“Social business is an oxymoron,” Rosenstein says. “In your personal life what you want is a system to help you track relationships with people. At work, it’s less interesting to follow people. You want a work, task graph that tracks all the units of work, what has been done and what still needs to be done. You want to track all the piles around those work items. That’s what’s central the story — the items of work, not the people.”

Or put more simply by Moskovitz, “If we felt that a Facebook for enterprise was what businesses needed, we would have built that.”
It is a really interesting enterprise company. They are saying some sensical things about the work space.

The problem with your email inbox is it is many different companies/applications crammed into one. Just like Craig's List was 50 different companies, your email inbox is 20 different companies.


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5, 7 And 10 Inches

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I think those three are the right sizes. And all three should be similar in functionality. As in, all three should be able to make phone calls. And I don't necessarily mean cellular. An app working over wifi is fine. Don't deprive it of a camera, front and back.

With the smartphone we are already in the four and a half inch territory. We are almost there. Amazon cracked the 7 incher with the Kindle Fire and Google nailed it with Nexus 7, and Apple is scrambling to get in there.

10 inches is almost Macbook Air territory. Things start getting a little fuzzy around there. And if touch is not to stay put at smartphone and tablet levels, if it is also to be part of the PC experience - Hello Windows 8 - then the size thing becomes even more important. It is just about the size. Otherwise it is pretty much the same thing. Which probably means you don't need them all. I think it is possible to get by with two.
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Amazon And Mobile

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Reuters: Amazon's mobile ambitions grow
Engadget: Amazon plans for ‘five or six’ new tablets, will include 10-inch model, says Staples president
VentureBeat: Amazon set to release up to six new tablets, including a 10-incher
Gizmodo: Why “Five or Six” New Kindle Fires Is Really Just Two Kindle Fires
Gadgetsteria: Staples CEO: 5-6 New Kindle Fire SKUs (And Phone?) Coming “Shortly”.
Business Insider: To Be Clear, Amazon Is NOT Going To Release Six New Tablets
Telegraph: London ‘obvious choice’ for Amazon's expansion
Fast Company: Amazon Opening London Office For Digital Streaming TV
TechCrunch: Amazon Ramps Up Global Expansion, Opens Massive Media R&D Center In London
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Sunday, July 22, 2012

Brazil Carnival





Android Tablet, Phone

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By now Android is no longer playing second place to the iOS in either the smartphone space or the tablet space. Nexus 7 has been a major arrival. Before that Amazon's Kindle Fire was the best product in the space running Android, but it was not Google's version of Android, and so it did not count for a win in Google's lap.

The Nexus 7 and the Samsung Galaxy S III have exceeded their Apple counterparts. Who is playing catch up now?

Google halts new orders for 16GB Nexus 7, surprised by demand
sales of the Nexus 7 have been "extremely brisk"
Samsung’s Galaxy S III surpasses 10 million sales in less than two months
By the end of the month, the device will be on sale via 296 carriers in 145 countries worldwide...... it and predecessor the Galaxy S, have together passed 50 million sales across the planet..... Samsung now counts itself as the biggest smartphone manufacturer in the world ..... an August launch for its next-generation Galaxy Note

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