It happened mysteriously, but we suddenly seem to have a short, sensible URL for the Kerika page on Google+: it’s http://plus.google.com/s/kerika, which is a huge improvement on https://plus.google.com/110330426240622128664/posts.
We have no idea why, or when exactly, Google decided to give us a reasonable URL, but we are certainly glad it happened.
Your Kerika Account Team consists of you (the Account Owner), and all the people you have added as Project Leaders or Team Members, across all your projects. Each person is counted just once, regardless of how many projects that person works on, and Visitors are not counted at all.
When you sign up as a new Kerika user, you get set up with a free Standard Account, which lets you have up to 3 people in your Account Team — and that includes you, as the Account Owner.
As your projects get larger and you add more people to your teams, you will need to upgrade your account to a paid Professional Account, which you can do within the application itself. Here’s how you can manage your account team, and the type of account you have with Kerika: click on your name or photograph, which appears in the top-left corner of the Kerika application.
This will show you a menu of actions:
From this menu, select Manage my Account and you will see your Account screen, right inside the Kerika application. It looks like this:
If your account is currently over its allowed size, you will see an alert here. (In the example above, the account shown is authorized for 3 users, as a free Standard Account, but is currently hosting 13 users).
Below this alert is a list of everyone who is part of your Account Team. If you want to reduce the size of your Account Team, perhaps to account for changes in your organization, or perhaps simply to reduce your use of the Kerika service, you can remove people easily by selecting them from this list.
Hover your mouse over that entry in the list of Account Team members, and you will see a full list of all the projects that person is working on:
To remove someone from your Account Team, click on the “x” button at the right end of the listing:
Before the person is actually removed, you will see a warning message that reminds you which projects will be affected:
If you are sure, go ahead and click on the Remove user from my Account button on the bottom left of this warning. (We have deliberately put it there, so you don’t click on it by accident.)
Removing someone from your Account will remove that person from every project where they are working, and this is will immediately affect your Account Team size.
Vimeo is really nice: great UI, much less cluttered than YouTube.
We are putting up our videos there now.
The transcript at the Wall Street Journal is extensive, and makes for great reading. Here are some of our favorite bits:
On whether Apple is too frugal:
My definition of a depression-era mentality wouldn’t be of a company investing a pair of tens over two years. [“tens” refers to $10 billion.]
On Einhorn’s lawsuit and Apple’s Proposal 2:
You’re not gonna see us do campaign mailing, you’re not gonna see a “yes on 2” in my front yard. This is a waste of shareholder money, it’s a distraction, and it’s not a seminal issue for Apple.
On innovation:
If there was a formula, a lot of companies would have bought their ability to innovate…
Consumers want an elegant experience where the technology flows to the background
These skills, this isn’t something you can just go write a check for. This is decades of experience
On specs:
Do you know the speed of an AX processor? You probably don’t. Does it matter? You want a fantastic experience
On iPad market share:
I have no idea what market share is, we’re the only company that really reports the units we sell.
On cannibalization:
I think if a company ever begins to use cannibalization as a primary or even a major factor of what products to go to, it’s the beginning of the end.
On iPad Mini:
I think this is gonna be the mother of all markets.
On the value of Apple Stores:
The tablet was ingrained in their mind as this heavy thing the Hertz guy held. But our store is the place to go and discover and try it out and see what it can do.
On being a good corporate citizen:
I’m very proud that we’re out front, that we have a spine on supply responsibility.
Cool! We just got our application approved, and now you can download Kerika from the Google Apps Marketplace.
The process was relatively smooth, and we are particularly impressed by the responsiveness of the Google team that deals with feedback from users — turnaround to our questions was just a few hours.
We will have a longer blog post soon with details.
Here’s a really great example of how you can easily create rich Web pages using Kerika:
This page was created in just minutes, and can be changed in real-time. The page is an example of Kerika’s Whiteboard projects, being used by the Seattle chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE).
This page is also a great example of you can create pages within pages: just click on the “Parking Directions” shape, and you get taken to another page that’s organized as a picture board:
Publishing these web pages is easy and instantaneous: just take the URL of your Kerika project page, and replace the “/m/” in the middle with “/c/” and you will have a real-time Web page that anyone can access, from anywhere, even if they don’t use the Kerika software.
(In this example, the project page is at kerika.com/m/BSxW, and the published page is at kerika.com/c/BSxW)
Want to learn more about how to create these great canvases? Check out this video.
We are now listed in the Chrome Web Store (and, hopefully, soon in the Google Apps Marketplace as well). If you are using Chrome, it’s a handy way to get it installed as part of your browser’s app.
Try it out today — even if you are already a Kerika user! (You will be sent to the account you already have.) And, please rate and review the app as well.
Our latest version includes a bunch of usability improvements, as usual, but the biggest changes are to the billing mechanism and account management:
Our thanks to everyone who has been giving us feedback!
Next up: Kerika will be available from the Google Apps Marketplace and the Chrome Web Store.