My daily readings 04/30/2009

• 新旧厂商混战手机浏览器：寻宝也疯狂_互联网_科技时代_新浪网

  tags: Mobile, browser

  • 张向东把话筒举起来，似乎犹豫了一下，看了一眼坐在身边的俞永福，但还是大声地把话说了出来：“下面我说一下，我们也要做手机浏览器。”
  • 　就在数天前，业内才传出消息称，巨头腾讯正进行内部的手机浏览器测试，近期将上线推出，加上早已进入的微软、诺基亚、苹果、Opera、Mozilla等国际厂商，还是国内的星际、航海家、MP等浏览器，一时间，手机浏览器市场风云变幻，混战激烈。
  • 比如微软，在WindowsMobile系统中，微软依然捆绑了移动版IE，以及Mozilla推出的手机版火狐，挪威手机浏览器Opera更在中国采取积极战略，去年底首次将中国版的发布融入Opera全球发布体系，与Opera国际版同步升级，并与展讯和联发科接洽，目标直指山寨机，此外还联手空中网拓展中国市场。

  • “随着移动互联网应用不断增加，浏览器在价值链中的地位愈发重要。手机浏览器与门户内容往往都紧密捆绑，这使得越来越多的无线互联网企业都在开发手机浏览器，从而把握用户的上网门户，确保自己的业务不会因为其他厂商的浏览器捆绑被削弱。”一位SP负责人分析说，在这样的情势下，未来强势的手机浏览器将成为第二个“移动梦网”，而手机游戏器也已成为3G门户的战略布局中不可或缺一环。

    　　“不论手机浏览器能不能挣钱，3G门户都需要推出‘GO’，通过手机浏览器的平台，巩固自己的门户战略，确保自身的内容和应用软件推广。”该负责人说。

  • 　“目前已经安装内测S60版手机，界面与UCWEB界面相似，运行速度似乎还略胜一筹。”坊间流传的消息称，该产品预计会在3-6个月后正式发布。

    　　该消息目前仍未获腾讯证实，但多位SP人士均向记者表示，该消息应该属实。

    　　除此之外，业内还有未经证实的消息称，百度也在研发自己的手机浏览器，预计今年6月推出。另据某SP负责人透露，还有多家互联网和SP厂商的手机浏览器也已经在开发中。

• Beej’s Guide to Network Programming

  tags: network, programming

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My daily readings 04/28/2009

• Omegle

  tags: chat, talk, socialmedia, networking

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My daily readings 04/27/2009

• What You Can’t Say

  tags: philosophy

  • What scares me is that there are moral fashions too.
    They’re just as arbitrary, and just as invisible to most people.
    But they’re much more dangerous.
    Fashion is mistaken for good design;
    moral fashion is mistaken for good.
    Dressing oddly gets you laughed at. Violating
    moral fashions can get you fired, ostracized, imprisoned, or
    even killed.

• What is Android? | Android Developers

  tags: no_tag

  • Developers have full access to the same framework APIs used by the core
    applications. The application architecture is designed to simplify the reuse
    of components; any application can publish its capabilities and any other
    application may then make use of those capabilities (subject to security
    constraints enforced by the framework). This same mechanism allows components
    to be replaced by the user.

  • Android includes a set of core libraries that provides most of
    the functionality available in the core libraries of the Java programming
    language.

    Every Android application runs in its own process, with its own instance of
    the Dalvik virtual machine. Dalvik has been written so that a device can run
    multiple VMs efficiently. The Dalvik VM executes files in the Dalvik
    Executable (.dex) format which is optimized for minimal memory
    footprint. The VM is register-based, and runs classes
    compiled by a Java language compiler that have been transformed into the .dex
    format by the included “dx” tool.

    The Dalvik VM relies on the Linux kernel for underlying functionality such
    as threading and low-level memory management.

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• How the OAuth Security Battle Was Won, Open Web Style – ReadWriteWeb

  tags: OAuth

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My daily readings 04/26/2009

• 10 Social Bookmarking Websites for Non-Stop Visual Inspiration | Inspired Magazine

  tags: bookmark, image

• Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2009: The Finalists – BusinessWeek

  tags: startups

• Confessions of an Entrepreneur’s Wife | Printer-friendly version

  tags: startups, life, wife

  • I had originally thought of this as his company, his work, his life. But now Lily and I were also paying a price. With Bill rarely home, I soon lost the time and energy to focus on my work. Left with no profession, and essentially no husband, I became frustrated and resentful. I found myself thinking that it might be easier if Lily and I lived alone, with no illusions about being able to depend on Bill. Fortunately we found a good therapist and held our marriage together, but it became clear that Bill just didn’t have the mental or physical energy to maintain much of a personal relationship. I knew he wanted me to be happy, but I couldn’t stop picking fights about his lack of time at home. I wanted him to succeed, but I hadn’t expected the company to so deeply invade our personal lives.
  • A CEO sells everyone. When he asks suppliers for better terms he’s also selling them on why they should do it. When he convinces a new hire to join a super-risky venture, he’s selling her on the potential the job offers. When he convinces me to stay married to him, he’s selling me on the better future we will have together.
  • By the same token, Bill fits another classic CEO profile: He has weak people-managing skills. When he’s driving that start-up train at top speed, all he sees is the urgency of reaching the depot. He expects his teammates to put their heads down and shovel coal, not slow things down with questions, discussions, or arguments. He is impatient with many personnel issues and doesn’t take the time to apply his sales skills to those situations.
  • From the day Bill started The Switch we knew something like this could happen–I kept saying that on any given day we could be millionaires or bankrupt. He didn’t choose to end the dream this way, but even he agrees that by the end it was sucking too much out of him for too little return. We’re better people, and a stronger family, for what we’ve been through. And that’s a good thing, because I’m betting that before too long, Bill will decide to do it all again.

• TG Daily – Google goes after iPhone 3.0 with Android 1.5

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  • Most importantly, Android 1.5 now runs on the Linux kernel 2.6.27. The software will add an on-screen keyboard that works in both landscape and portrait viewing modes, support for the installation of 3rd party keyboards, a dictionary for user-defined words, new widgets for the home screen, video recording and playback capability, stereo Bluetooth support including an auto-pairing feature, as well as picture and video upload support for Picasa and YouTube.

    The Android browser will be updated with faster Webkit and Sqirrelfish engines, get copy and paste support, a search-within-the-page feature as well as a unified Go and Search box, among others. All new features are mentioned on Google’s Android pages. The “early look” SDK 1.5 can be downloaded here.

• TG Daily – 1 Million Google Android Phones sold by T-Mobile

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  • During a conference call last week Eric Schmidt, Google CEO stated that he felt the Android had a chance for great success this year. Schmidt claimed that the open source strategy was gaining ground and hinted that the company would deliver future announcements.

    “There are announcements happening between now and the end of the year that are quite significant from operators and new hardware partners in the Android space, which I won’t preannounce except to say that they really do fulfill much of the vision that we laid out more than a year ago,” stated Schmidt during the call. “On the netbook side, there are a number of people who have actually taken Android and ported it over to netbook or netbook-similar devices.”

• Creating A Successful Web 2.0 Business | SiteBoat

  tags: no_tag

  • Use The Network Effect: Web 2.0 World is people-centric and there are countless free ways of collaboration with people who may become your users, investors or team-mates. Social networks and social bookmarking sites likes Digg are the best places to find volunteers for testing your products or advertising your business for free. Listen to your customers and let their feedback shape your product.Try to develop a community around your web business and hire a community manager as soon as possible. Motivated fans will be the best and the cheapest marketing staff of your company. The network effect is the main reason why leading Internet companies got so big, so  fast.

• 10 Books To Make You A Better Product Manager | The Experience is the Product

  tags: no_tag

• Elven Architecture at amdev

  tags: Architecture

• evhead: Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea

  tags: startup, product

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My daily readings 04/24/2009

• Digg the Blog » Blog Archive » DUI.Stream and MXHR

  tags: frontend, performance

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My daily readings 04/18/2009

• Coding Horror: The Eight Levels of Programmers

  tags: no_tag

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My daily readings 04/17/2009

• Tim Ferriss: Smash fear, learn anything | Video on TED.com

  tags: learning

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My daily readings 04/16/2009

• A Local Revolution?

  tags: no_tag

• Getting Attention Is a Stupid Business Plan

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• 13 “Twits” Who Will Change Your Perspective on Reality

  tags: no_tag

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My daily readings 04/14/2009

• WNYC – Radiolab

  tags: podcast, science

• Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner: Podcasts

  tags: podcasting, Entrepreneurship, startups

• Venture Voice – podcast on entrepreneurship, venture capital, business

  tags: podcast, entrepreneurship, startups

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My daily readings 04/13/2009

• Social Entrepreneurs

  tags: no_tag

• 消息称戴尔将联合中移动推出两款智能手机_业界_科技时代_新浪网

  tags: no_tag

  • 　　这位人士进一步透露说，这两款手机均采用了中国移动的OMS系统(Open Mobile System，开放手机系统)。这是一个基于谷歌Android的中国移动深度定制的智能手机操作系统，其中捆绑了中国移动的多项数据业务，如飞信、快讯、无线音乐随身听、139邮箱、移动梦网、号簿管家、百宝箱、mSpaces等，OMS由一家与中国移动关系紧密的名为“播思通讯”的公司开发。
  • 　一些海外分析师对戴尔进军智能手机并不是特别看好，因为他们认为智能手机市场已经“拥挤不堪”，竞争对手过多，戴尔的手机很难像苹果那样吸引用户。不过，智能手机市场的成功者并非只有苹果一家，戴尔的优势在于其供应链管理及直销模式，戴尔在PC方面的成功即是在一个“拥挤不堪”的市场，且产品没有苹果电脑Mac那样有十足的设计感。

• Workshop-diigo

  tags: no_tag

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