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My daily readings 10/30/2009
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My daily readings 10/27/2009
October 27, 2009-
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Evernote
lets you capture things (web pages,
screenshots, photos, note, etc), which you can tag, store and find
again fast . It works across many different (Windows and Mac OS)
computers and phones (iPhone, iPod Touch, Blackberry, Palm Pre) that
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Posterous
is a very simple blogging system.
If you haven’t yet got into blogging this is by far the simplest way
to start. Just post to your Posterous blog using email and attach
any type of file – photo, MP3, video, document, etc – if you want to
include it. If you already have a blog elsewhere (e.g. Blogger,
Wordpress or Typepad) you can also auto-post to it, or even
auto-post to Facebook, Twitter or Flickr.
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韩国3G启示录：开放心态有助于成功_通讯与电讯_科技时代_新浪网
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在这个问题上，SK电讯也犯了想当然的错误。几乎所有的移动运营商都认为，既然在2G时代高端商务用户每个月交的电话费最多，到了3G时代他们肯定也会是首批尝鲜者。SK电讯一开始也是这么想的，但是他们很快就发现自己错了。真正对3G感兴趣的反而是年轻人，正因为他们无所事事，所以有更为充足的时间和热情去尝试新事物，而忙于工作的高端商务人群一开始对3G并不感兴趣。
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“June”的成功使得韩国的几大运营商都发现了年轻人这座“金矿”。如今，韩国的三家移动运营商SK电讯、KTF和LG电信都推出了3G子品牌，而且都竭尽全力地讨好年轻人：KTF的3G子品牌“SHOW”里面的字母“O”打扮得像快进键一样，LG电信的“OZ”则是一副全红。
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CEO康培凯：iPhone是诺基亚的叫醒电话_通讯与电讯_科技时代_新浪网
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如今，同样的故事再次上演，只是这一次，主角变成了诺基亚。在昔日的竞争对手摩托罗拉陷入危机之后，诺基亚却走上了一条漫无目的的产品浅层升级之路。从N73到N96，诺基亚推出N系列的速度越来越快，但技术和外观的改进却越来越少。
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My daily readings 10/26/2009
October 26, 2009-
Apple – MacBook – Features of the $999 MacBook.
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The moment you open your new MacBook, its glossy LED-backlit display greets you with glorious, full-screen brightness and brings your photos, movies, and presentations alive with
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“这个魔咒是存在的。”史玉柱承认，“一个产品成功之后，同一个团队做第二个产品往往都不怎么成功。”
不仅是在互联网行业，史玉柱所熟知的保健品行业，这一规律也同样具有魔力。太太口服液很成功，但这家公司后面推的几十个产品全部没能再续辉煌。昂立一号也很成功，后面推的昂立所有的系列也都失败。
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史玉柱如此理解这一魔咒。“第一个产品成功，第二个产品(在判断上)可能就武断了。这种情况是很容易发生的。细节不可能像做第一个那么完美。背水一战、提心吊胆，可能没有这种情况了。所以，第一次成功往往会成为第二次的包袱。”
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首当其冲的是团队的创业激情消失。上市半年后，正是员工开始行权的时候。“这些研发人员住着别墅，开着宝马上班，就不像以前那么拼命了，也就是他的干扰多了。过去一上班就研发这个事，他现在的干扰是，宝马又出了一个新系列，有一个别墅打折销售这一类的信息多起来了，人被干扰了。”史玉柱说。巨人的账上长期放着超过50亿人民币现金，这又导致公司“人浮于事”的情形出现。
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“我们就有本事每做一个产品都是精品，这是当时的想法，后来发现不行，我们没这个能力。”刘伟反思。即便是史玉柱，一段时间内也只能把精力放在一款产品上，《巨人》的不成功，也有部分原因在于当时史玉柱无法从《征途》中抽身。
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“基本上一年以前都是以我的意见为主，我拍板。现在都是放到那个小伙子(纪学锋)那里去拍板。”不过，史玉柱现在有了新的帮手来监督研发团队的效果，他组织了一支超过30人的游戏评测队伍，这些人代替史玉柱在各个游戏里体验，然后将各种体验结果告诉他。在刚开始做《征途》时，史玉柱是通过逼迫身边的秘书等人玩游戏来获得他人的感受。
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史玉柱把更多的精力花在了巨人的下一个“核武器”的研发上，他正在研发一款“颠覆性”的融合社交网络理念的游戏，在仔细研究了类似第二人生在中国的水土不服后，他计划要做出一款“玩家去创造玩法，玩家去玩，把这当成一个社区去经营”的网络游戏，这款游戏史玉柱已经研发了1年，他的计划表一共是需要3年。
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史玉柱：我觉得最重要的是，一个时期只做一件事。我自从搞《征途》的时候，脑白金我基本上不管，我一年在他那个项目上花的总时间不会超过8个小时。我知道我的企业家朋友里能做到这一点的不超过10%。
第二个就是做这件事的时候战略要想清楚，要慎重，战略想清楚了之后再想一个就是细节。重要的细节自己亲自抓。我觉得基本上就是这样的一个套路。
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Startup School: Tony Hsieh On Delivering Happiness
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Hsieh talked about the Zappos hiring process — each time Zappos interviews a candidate, Zappos sends a shuttle to the airport to pick up the interviewee. The shuttle driver then will tell the recruiting team what happened in the shuttle so that Zappos can get a better understanding of the interviewee.
Zappos has 10 core vallues that each employee must meet in order to work at Zappos. All 10 of these core values are talked about during the interview process as well. Hsieh mentioned that if employees don’t have the right company culture, they won’t be welcomed in the Zappos culture, so they make sure they hire employees with the right company culture.
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My daily readings 10/25/2009
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My daily readings 10/24/2009
October 24, 2009-
Sean Parker’s Rise of Facebook And Twitter, Fall Of Google Presentation (Full Slide Deck)
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He doesn’t characterize value of “information services” very well. The core value isn’t the collection and processing of information–that is relatively easy. The core value is making available the right information when/where needed to make the right decision, etc. It’s not a total sum game where one must defeat the other; they can be complementary and exist in parallel. Both can continue to grow in value. There’s still a lot of growth to information services and it will transform over time. To ignore it would be short-sighted.
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Sean Parker: Twitter/Facebook Will Soon Dominate The Web — Not Google.
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Why? Parker believes we’re shifting from the first phase of the Internet, which was dominated by what he calls “information services” These are companies like Google and Yahoo. But next up to dominate the web will be the “network services” like Facebook and Twitter, he believes.
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He went on to say that Friendster was not a fad, it failed because of the failure to scale, not because of poor product execution. So how did MySpace fall? It was a “systematic product failure,” said Parker. And Facebook was smart to launch with the college campus networks. “College students didn’t have MySpace accounts, so we went for them,” Parker said. It was all about tightly spun networks at colleges, and that helped Facebook spread naturally and virally.
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Parker also talked a bit about why it’s not always the best products that win. Craigslist, MySpace, AIM and eBay all were poorly designed or executed, yet they did well. This was because their networks were strong enough to overcome their bad products, Parker said.
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Excitement For Hardware Keeps Sergey Brin Up At Night. And Maybe Chrome For Mac Too.
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SB: I think they’re just tying Google with change. The world is changing, the business models are changing. They’re making a leap that we’re causing that or we’re stealing from them, I think. I don’t agree with the conclusion, but I hear the pain.
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SB: Yeah thanks for that question. I’ve been surprised about the controversy there. We want to make books available on a huge scale. We overcame tech challenges. We had to overcome the legal dispute, which we’re working on. These books have great content, even if they’re 50 years old. People need to access them and we need to pay them for that, we know that. I’m surprised by the resistance. But I’m optimistic that we’ll be successful and that we’ll provide access to tens of millions of books.
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Box.net Launches Integration With Salesforce
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My daily readings 10/23/2009
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My daily readings 10/20/2009
October 20, 2009-
The Sea of Ideas » Underestimated UI techniques: Morphing
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“Now, when coding, I try to think: ‘how can I write this such that if people saw my code, they’d be amazed at how little there is and how little it does’.”
golden. i’ve been trying to pound this concept into my head lately, and this is a very well-stated version of it.
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“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
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The first point hit home big time. When you’re doing a startup you feel like every day is precious and the tide of change is racing along impossibly fast. It’s healthy to remember that the world doesn’t reinvent itself every month. The problem you’re working on now will probably still be relevant in 1-2 years.
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It’s true that you rarely have to work fast because the world will leave you behind otherwise (though that has occasionally been the case with startups we’ve funded). The reason you have to work fast is that your initial idea is probably wrong, and you have to iterate till you get it right.
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How slowly things change.
depends on the context. for huge macro level projects e.g. iPhone reshaping cell phone industry or FB having Google size revenue, ebay’s network effects being broken, that all takes time.
but in the same time period (past 2.5 years) a lot of things have completely changed. FB platform has gone from launch to supporting companies that could IPO (and made a whole load of single developers v rich). social gaming has gone from scrabulous to now posing a credible threat to the entire console gaming industry. the wii destroyed the xbox and ps3 within its first year of launch and now sells more than both of them combined.
i’d argue that it’s the faster moving trends that impact startups and startup opportunities more than the slower moving macro trends.
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Patrick Collison » blog » Surprises
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Tied to this, the realization that a good product is so much more important than first mover advantage. Obvious, but keeps surprising me. Facebook, the iPhone, Dropbox, Skype, etc., have an amazing array of failed predecessors.
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My daily readings 10/19/2009
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My daily readings 10/18/2009
October 18, 2009-
Perspectives – Jeff Dean: Design Lessons and Advice from Building Large Scale Distributed Systems
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Be lucky – it’s an easy skill to learn – Telegraph
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A decade ago, I set out to investigate luck. I wanted to examine the impact on people’s lives of chance opportunities, lucky breaks and being in the right place at the right time. After many experiments, I believe that I now understand why some people are luckier than others and that it is possible to become luckier.
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I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. On average, the unlucky people took about two minutes to count the photographs, whereas the lucky people took just seconds. Why? Because the second page of the newspaper contained the message: “Stop counting. There are 43 photographs in this newspaper.” This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than 2in high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it.
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And so it is with luck – unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and as a result miss other types of jobs. Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for.
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My research revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.
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“We don’t really practice agile development nor CD” – Mint.com
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Emory University | Atlanta, GA | Busting Psychology Myths
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If you believe that opposites attract, that most people use only 10 percent of their brains, and that handwriting can reveal your personality, then you need to check out Emory psychologist Scott Lilienfeld’s latest book, “50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior.”
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- Subliminal messages can persuade people to purchase products
- Playing Mozart to infants boosts their intelligence
- Hypnosis is useful for retrieving memories of forgotten events
- The defining feature of dyslexia is reversing letters
- Researchers have demonstrated that dreams possess symbolic meaning
- Low self-esteem is a major cause of psychological problems
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