I wonder if you know TouchZoomDesktop. While it focus on touch input, it can be used with mouse/keyboard as well and offers easy zooming of the whole screen. I use it in presentations. http://www.lovesummertrue.com/touchzoomdesktop/en-us/
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1. Was the feature designed badly? Yes. Friends should be unchecked by default.
2. Did Path call anyone? No. That's a service from phone providers when a text is sent to a landline.
3. Did Path sent texts without permission of the user? No. But the feature was designed in a way that many people just tapped yes and didn't uncheck their contacts.
I like their out of service page. Static html with popular vines from some time ago.
One problem I have: With a slow connection it doesn't play smoothly but stops after every vine.
Dislosure: I know the people behind weavly and slept on their couch last year.
Nothing wrong with that but I don't see me updating another app while the information is in most cases available somewhere else. For the app to be useful I would need to give it even more information than I do with all other platforms while the benefit is that people aren't annoyed because I don't take their calls.
Right now you only can decide to connect or unlink your whole account. This is done on your profile page. Let us know if there is a problem so we can look into it. You can hide topics, industries and geographies we have pulled from your accounts.
If you choose to delete your account (no clickable link right now, mail us) we will remove all of your personal data. We will retain data you submitted as part of fulfilling a job. There may be backups that still contain other data by you but these won't be used if we can avoid it.
Recently a developer created a task. He has a popular plugin for an open source CMS and wants to offer a paid version of it. Therefore he needs TOS. Finding a lawyer who has the right expertise in that space takes time. Instead he went to work.io, defined what he wants as a result and paid. The task is now distributed to fitting lawyers and the developer will get back exactly the results he asked for.
On the other side is the lawyer who gets contacted by people who ask what random things cost. She has to make an estimate and doesn't always get the job. Often she has to explain things instead of just getting them done. She charges by the hour because every client is different. On work.io she has a a list of tasks, sees how much she will get for each of them and can fulfill them immediately. She doesn't have to run after the money because work.io can pay her as soon as the buyer accepted the results.
We already plan landing pages for specific industries as it is easier to explain it with examples. A marketplace for services that can be fulfilled without further interaction between buyer and provider.
Elevator pitch for my grandmother: Work has changed. You already experienced how less people were needed to work at farms while there was more food for everyone. Today factories get the same treatment. Intelligent machines, we call them roboters, can make many tasks and at some point in the future there will only be a handful of people needed to build for example a car. Most people work in the service industry. The teller at your bank for example. Or your taxi driver. Or the cashier when you buy groceries. These jobs will be automated too. I can use my computer to do the same things the teller does. It can talk with nearly all other computers on the world through some kind of phone line. While you need to go to the bank to send me money, I can do it myself. Taxis will be able to drive on their own and you surely remember the last time we were at Ikea were we used that laserthingy ourselves and paid with the plastic card instead of waiting in a line to have someone else to do exactly the same thing. Computers enable us to do things we paid others to do for us in the past in less time because we don't have to wait in lines. * ping * We are already there? On the way down I will explain you what work.io actually does.
Elevator pitch for my grandmother (second try): work.io enables people to work like they were employed by a company without the corporate bullshit. They get a list of tasks and can decide on what they want to work. They get paid by tasks and know upfront how much they will get for each of them. They even can do only a part of the task and someone else will do the rest. They will then be paid for the percentage they did.
Instead of enroll others, people who need something done can create a task on work.io and pay for it. We then make sure that they get the results they wanted.
This creates a much flexibler environment for everyone involved. Companies can be managed by a core team that gets things done by great people done as they need it. They can buy an evaluation of their idea, a list of competitors and all legal documents they need for incorporation and doing business. If they want to get into a new market they buy the needed insights. They can buy a marketing strategy and the needed copy. They can even have someone else to incorporate their company. Nearly everything is at their fingertips.
You can offer services without connecting anything. Right now they additional info is only used for matching.
We will work on a way to enter information manually.
I know that we have that problem and we try to solve it. I believe that discussions like this one help with it. We try to describe what we offer and others tell us what they don't understand.
We remove overhead from outsourcing. You define what results you need and the people on the platform deliver. No management needed. (Sounds like more bullshit? work.io takes care about who fulfills your tasks so you don't need to.)
Sorry for the social media verification thingy. It works for most people and so we choose to start from there. We will look into alternatives in the future.
Thanks! If I can help you with anything let me know.
You could still provide buyers with awesome cookie recipes!
* reputation: We also have a rating system in place which is used to give the provider feedback on their work and also helps us with matching future tasks. Buyer will get rated too. At work.io the buyers don't have to choose the provider but only defines what results they want to have delivered. There is the option to buy services directly by someone but these deals are normally done because of the reputation someone has outside of work.io
Does that work for you?