The MIT Technology Review published an interesting short article: “Redesigning the Web for Touch Screens A new crop of touch-based devices is changing the way users interact with Web pages” By Erica Naone
Excerpts:
- the advent of touch-based devices “is almost asking the entire Web to change its behavior from what’s been built up over 20 years,”
- Individual problems are often small, but they add up to something more significant, Vegesna says. For example, roll-over interactions are common on many websites, but these don’t work on touch devices. Other common tricks, such as hovering over a link to see the connected URL in the status bar, have to be adjusted before a user can perform the same function.
Read the whole article at http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/25236/?nlid=2950&a=f
Creative Overflow has an interesting and helpful take on why only 4% of small businesses survive 10 years
Excerpt:
“Three distinct personalities make up a successful business; an entrepreneur, a manager and a technician.
The entrepreneurs job is to be the go getter. The one that creates out of thin air; the person constantly coming up with new and wonderful ideas for the future of the business, creating new products and new services. Always looking for new ideas and ways to lead the market. Without these people in your company the future will be nothing more than mediocre, if there is any future at all.
A manager is a person that builds business systems around the things that the entrepreneur creates. He makes sure that things are done in an effective way, that there are systems, rules and guidelines in place. He maximizes profits and make sure that the business runs like a well oiled machine.
The technician is the person, building the fiscal things that the entrepreneur has thought up, and that the manager is managing. He is the here and now guy, he brings home the bacon. If there was no technician, nothing would get done. The only person making the fiscal goods that brings in money is the technician. Without them there would be no business. will edit more in the morning am tired!
Unfortunately and inevitably these 3 personalities clash.The way that an entrepreneur goes about achieving their goals causes a lot of havoc around the office, this is unsettling to those in his employment, therefore he is usually met with a lot of resistance. The entrepreneurs worldview then becomes that of people being the thing that gets in the way of the dream.
The manager craves order, constantly feels the need to keep the entrepreneur in line and focused otherwise he feels that the entrepreneur will drive them out of business with all his ideas and schemes. He tries to order the technicians work into a system that would consistently give predictable results.The technician is happiest when he is in control of the work flow and left alone to do his work. The entrepreneur always gets in the way, throwing new ideas into the mix (that would probably not work anyway) and keeps the technician away from focusing on the job at hand. The manager also gets in the way of the technician onto whom he wants to impose.
The technician can’t stand being treated that way. To the manager the technician becomes a problem to be managed. To the technician the manager becomes a meddler to be avoided, and to both of them the entrepreneur is the one that started the trouble in the first place.”
Click http://creativeoverflow.net/why-9-out-of-10-small-businesses-fail/ to read the rest of Creative Overflow’s article.
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