The Best Long Introduction to a Company and a Product

On Monday Asana had an open house publicly revealed the state of the project management web service they are developing. Justin Rosenstein did an amazing job presenting the vision of Asana and doing a demo of the Asana product.

I don’t think I’ve seen a better long introduction to a company and a product. The talk is about 45 minutes, and Justin maintains his mellow. He is articulate, cheerful, and on point throughout.

Online Productivity Expensive?

With a young family I’ve found myself drawn to calendaring and to using “to do” lists extensively. It has freed my time and energy to instead enjoy it with my wife and son.

I’ve turned my eye to doing some selective time tracking. This class of software is most often integrated into billing applications.

I’m looking at a few Mac apps:

And a couple of web services:

The spread in pricing of the web services surprised me. How does FreshBooks justify being so much more expensive?

Those prices are a year’s worth at the “solo” levels of these services. Except toggl, these web services are magnitudes more expensive than the Mac applications.