Archive for January, 2011
My daily readings 01/31/2011
January 31, 2011My daily readings 01/29/2011
January 29, 2011-
Steve’s blog: The 3 most important things I learned from Google (part 2)
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I was the website bizdev guy so I was on the inaugural ad design team. I was one of the few people sitting around the conference room table when Larry [Page] walked in and declared that “ads can be as relevant as search results” and then basically walked out. I scratched my head a bit and remember thinking “what does that mean?”. What it meant was that we were in no hurry to make money from our website. It meant that we weren’t going to have graphical banners on our site. It didn’t matter that all of the advertisers of the world were used to hiring an agency, having a small number of creative banners produced and then distributed to the pages of the web. It didn’t matter that not only were our ads going to be different, but it was going to be an entirely different sale and require changing buyer behavior and a whole new process. We were not going to consider how the entire industry worked, we were just supposed to build this thing as if the rest of the world and its established practices didn’t exist…as if we were operating in a vacuum.
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虾米发红包了，我领了快100块钱，开心死了！快去快去：玉兔迎春虾过年 http://bit.ly/hivLjQ
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我们的报纸越来越厚，我们的理想渐行渐远。穿过你的油墨的我的手
我们的报纸越来越厚，我们的理想渐行渐远。穿过你的油墨的我的手，在八股新闻和淋病广告中寻找着真话。——我在2005年某报哗变时写的一句话。
My daily readings 01/27/2011
January 27, 2011-
Amazon Launches Its Collection Of Short Works, Kindle Singles
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@cnanson – I found one down side of Diigo is the inability to save links from so many RSS readers. Intapaper and Delicious always seem there
My daily readings 01/26/2011
January 26, 2011-
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My daily readings 01/25/2011
January 25, 2011-
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My daily readings 01/24/2011
January 24, 2011-
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But acquiring innovating emerging web services is not the only thing that big companies do that can be detrimental to the web. Worse is competing head on with them. Look at Facebook. They have ripped off Twitter, Foursquare, Quora, and many more small innovative startups. They haven’t “killed” any of these companies but they have muddled the market and caused users to have to make choices that may turn out to be the wrong choices for them.
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Hacker News | Why I Don’t Buy the Quora Hype
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He is both right and wrong on this.
Right, for the present: Quora is special because of who is there, not what, and there is an upper limit to the success of a fan-club.
But he is wrong in the long term, or could be wrong, if Quora adapts and allows the rest of the world to create their own fan-club universes. If it goes on to inspire communities from different backgrounds, fields, industries and specialties, then yes, Quora can become “Stack Exchange” + resident celebrity monks + Wikipedia.
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Why I Don’t Buy the Quora Hype
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Quora isn’t going to be a Facebook or a Twitter. It is not likely to even catch up with the current market leaders in the Q&A space—Answers.com and Yahoo! Answers (which both get more than 40 million unique visitors a month, compared with Quora’s meager 150,000). Unlike Facebook, where everyone socializes, and Twitter, where ordinary people tell their friends what they are thinking, a Quora-like tool is only for those who want to learn what their intellectual peers are saying on, or to research, a particular topic. This is for the tech types—who dabble in technology and dream about things like startups and funding.
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What is more likely to happen and makes far more sense is that a new generation of private, gated communities will grow and evolve. This is where people with common interests will gather and exchange ideas. For example, for people seeking legal advice, there is LawPivot, and for businesses looking for experts, there is Focus. For techies, there are sites like StackOverflow, Slashdot, Hacker News; for children, there is Togetherville; for business students, there is PoetsandQuants; for entrepreneurs in India, there is StartupQnA; for Indian accountants, there is CAClubIndia; and China has its own groups, and so do many other countries. Why do the Silicon Valley elite believe that everyone will flock to a U.S.-based tech site like Quora?
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My daily readings 01/23/2011
January 23, 2011My daily readings 01/22/2011
January 22, 2011-
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对于他们的商业成功，你可以使用任何字眼来形容，但唯独“注定”是不合适的——如果将时钟调回到十年之前，我不知道有多少人敢大胆做出预言，说满脑子点子的首席执行官乔布斯(Steve Jobs)有朝一日会成为全美第二大企业的领导者，除了埃克森美孚(XOM)之外，让所有的上市公司都拜倒在自己脚下。
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Nikita the Spider * Encoding Divination
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The flowchart below describes how Nikita divines the encoding of a Web document. You can click on any white shape (the diamonds and boxes) to learn more about that step. First, some terminology: what I call an encoding is also called a character set. Some of the specifications that I quote use the latter term. Also, when I say the HTTP spec I am referring to both HTTP 1.0 (RFC 1945) and HTTP 1.1 (RFC 2616). They don’t differ on the subject of encodings, so I can safely lump them together.
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The HTML 4.01 specification passes harsh judgement on this portion of the HTTP spec. It says,
The HTTP protocol ([RFC2616], section 3.7.1) mentions ISO-8859-1 as a default character encoding when the “charset” parameter is absent from the “Content-Type” header field. In practice, this recommendation has proved useless because some servers don’t allow a “charset” parameter to be sent, and others may not be configured to send the parameter. Therefore, user agents must not assume any default value for the “charset” parameter.
(emphasis mine)In practice, when the encoding isn’t specified most browsers either guess (using their own encoding diviniation tricks) or default to win-1252 which is a superset of ISO-8859-1. Since Nikita’s goal is to help you to comply with published specs, she sticks with the HTTP-specified default of ISO-8859-1.
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Official Google Blog: An update from the Chairman
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When I joined Google in 2001 I never imagined—even in my wildest dreams—that we would get as far, as fast as we have today. Search has quite literally changed people’s lives—increasing the collective sum of the world’s knowledge and revolutionizing advertising in the process. And our emerging businesses—display, Android, YouTube and Chrome—are on fire. Of course, like any successful organization we’ve had our fair share of good luck, but the entire team—now over 24,000 Googlers globally—deserves most of the credit.
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Larry will now lead product development and technology strategy, his greatest strengths, and starting from April 4 he will take charge of our day-to-day operations as Google’s Chief Executive Officer. In this new role I know he will merge Google’s technology and business vision brilliantly. I am enormously proud of my last decade as CEO, and I am certain that the next 10 years under Larry will be even better! Larry, in my clear opinion, is ready to lead.
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My daily readings 01/20/2011
January 20, 2011-
10 Golden Lessons From Steve Jobs | Ririan Project
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1. Steve Jobs said: “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
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Steve Jobs said: “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
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3. Steve Jobs said: “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”
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4. Steve Jobs said: “You know, we don’t grow most of the food we eat. We wear clothes other people make. We speak a language that other people developed. We use a mathematics that other people evolved… I mean, we’re constantly taking things. It’s a wonderful, ecstatic feeling to create something that puts it back in the pool of human experience and knowledge.”
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5. Steve Jobs said: “There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.”
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Think of beginner’s mind as the mind that faces life like a small child, full of curiosity and wonder and amazement.
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My daily readings 01/19/2011
January 19, 2011-
Friday Reflections: Excellence is not an act but a habit: journey of Steve Jobs
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Then he joined a company called Pixar and created a revolution in the entertainment industry by introducing computer animated films. Remember the movies: Toy Story, A bug’s life and many more? Pixar was later acquired by Disney and he is now the largest stockholder of Disney.
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But what I have described so far is the work of A Creative Genius. So where is the emotional part? Steve recognizes that a technology is relevant to people as long as it satisfies their emotional needs. The keen understanding of the importance of design and the role of aesthetics is reflected in all his products. His ability to combine and recombine ideas, draw associations from his experiences in other fields (example: calligraphy class and Mac special fonts) and establish emotional connection with people have not only created great products but also created great markets for them.
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For any person or organization interested in getting lessons in Presentation, Marketing, Creativity, Out of the Box Thinking or Emotional Intelligence skills, just click on the following link and get all five in one by watching his iPhone introduction video. You can bring a lot of efficiency by using this 90 minute video of the Master and reduce or eliminate other training programs.
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纽约时报：苹果人才济济 但乔布斯无可替代_业界_科技时代_新浪网
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“问题不是苹果的运营和执行能力，”蒙斯特说，“从他们目前的表现来看，无疑可以完成任务。但是构思未知产品的灵感，他们却存在不足。”
“真正的核心问题是，乔布斯的灵感无可替代。”他说。
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You have to be very nimble and very open minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how your adapt.
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Hacker News | Why You Should Not Charge for Your Webapp From Day One
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The author has not charged money for his app yet so while we know some users like the application, it doesn’t tell if they are willing to pay for it.
But my real point is that it depends on the type of users you have. I sell my web apps to towns and city administrations and also to some small businesses. At first we had a few clients for free, their employees didn’t use the application much and we did get some feedback but not that much. The year after, we found clients (including one from our original free clients) who were willing to pay for the service (incomplete, buggy and all) and things changed a lot. These clients had much more users day to day using the system, they also provided much more frequent feedback.
If your client is an organization, the importance something has for them is very often tied to how much of their budget they dedicated to that something.
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Justin Vincent — Why You Should NOT Charge for Your Webapp From Day One
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“You should charge From Day 1″
…that meme is still doing the rounds today (Jan 2011).
If you’re about to launch your web app let me tell you don’t do that!
Lucky Mistake
I made the lucky mistake with Pluggio of not charging from day one. Not because I didn’t want to – but because I didn’t have the payment stuff setup and I was too lazy to do it before launch.
Lucky for me, instead, I made it very easy to signup for free and explained that I would be charging in a few months, but for now it’s 100% free. So signup! Play while you can! Get value out of it! (before it costs anything).
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Better Product. More Money.
Due to having so many people testing it out, the site was massively better than it could have been if I had a pay-wall from at the beginning. Subsequently Pluggio retention rates of paid users are thorugh the roof – with the average paid user sticking around for six to nine months.
In my opinion, you won’t make real money on your product until it’s rounded out and bug free.
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I would especially suggest not having any kind of Plans & Pricing page that committed to price points or plan limits. Yes have a plans and pricing page, but just say “coming in a few months, for now everything is 100% free”. If you put any kind of real plans and pricing it hurts you because it makes it way more likely for people not to test your product.
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Disclaimer: As always there is no one truth, so if you have any counter (or supporting) examples please feel free to comment below.
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Hacker News | Why U.S. Galaxy S Phones run Android 2.1
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If Samsung (for example) just made one phone a year, they’d lose market share because it would only be ‘the latest thing’ for a few weeks until someone else came out with an Android phone. Even if Samsung’s product life cycle comes in one-year intervals, the rest of the Android community is much faster, and carriers will be glad to push the latest new phone with the latest whiz-bang features.
In order for Samsung to really compete, they would have to make a high-end, cutting-edge phone, comparable in build quality, features, and software to the iPhone. It would have to stand head and shoulders above the sea of mediocre Android handsets, and stay there for quite a while. It would need to be different enough from the rest that it was a clear winner, the Android phone to own this year. This would have to be said about the hardware and the software.
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Scribd Raises Another $13 Million, Aims To Bring Social Reading To Every Device
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CEO Trip Adler says that the money will primarily be used to expand the team, which is current at around 45 employees. New hires will mostly come on the engineering side, with personnel also being added to Scribd’s business development and sales teams. Adler also says that Scribd has an agressive product roadmap for the next six to twelve months — a key piece of which will be mobile.
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Scribd has been the leading service for social, online reading for quite a while now, but there’s an increasing amount of action in this space from Amazon (via its Kindle platform) and Google (via Google Books). Neither of these are particularly social yet, but Kindle recently started allowing users to ‘lend’ their books to friends for two weeks (which the Nook can do as well), and other social features are likely to follow eventually — a more robust Kindle community would make sense. Of course, Scribd’s corpus of content includes millions of user-uploaded documents, while Kindle and Google Books are mostly focused on published works.
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Android 3.0 Honeycomb sweetens the pot for business users | androidGoD.Net/
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You’re able to have multiple smartphone-sized apps displayed next to one another on the tablet screen and interact with them, creating a windows-like environment.
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Better web browsing
Business users often need to have multiple web pages open. Although you can do this with current tablets, it generally requires going to another page where the open pages are displayed in a stack to select the one you want to view. The browser in Android 3.0, which (not surprisingly) resembles Chrome, was demonstrated on the Motorola XOOM (which is likely to be the first Honeycomb-based tablet to hit the market). The new browser brings the type of tabbed browsing that we’re all familiar with from Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Chrome to the tablet. This should speed up web research for business users and make it easier to keep track of which web pages you have open.
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微软张亚勤:反省移动搜索的失利 三大平台之战刚开始_滚动新闻_新浪财经_新浪网
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张亚勤：首先数学要好，要有很好的理论基础。第二点，编程要好，不仅要有好基础，还能自己写程序，要有执行力。第三个是要有好的态度，你的诚信和团队合作的能力。所以，要三好学生。还有三种人是坚决不能要的。
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张亚勤：首先一种人是这种双面人，爱玩政治的。
主持人：这是微软最讨厌的。
张亚勤：这是我们最讨厌的。第二种人是负面人，心态是很负面的。
主持人：悲观的。
张亚勤：天生就很悲观，这种悲观的情绪也是有传染性的。第三种就是玩世不恭的，对什么都不care，对好的技术，对公司的发展，对产业，什么都不care，属于感官相对比较麻痹的。
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张亚勤：做错了之后，要对事不对人，我总是在讲，我说要hard on issues,easy on
people。另外一点，你必须要允许大家去犯错误，特别是做科研，它本身有的时候没有对错的，它可能往往需要……
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张亚勤：我曾经讲过一个故事，巴菲特的故事。原来我在做手机的时候，我有一个习惯，见了别人之后就问您用什么手机，我见了巴菲特也不例外，我说沃伦，你用的是什么手机。他给我一看手机，很老的一个手机，那个手机没什么功能，只能打电话，我本来想象它可能是智能手机。这里头有日程表，有各种功能。我说你的日程表怎么办，你的电话也看不到。他就在口袋里拿了一个小黑本，薄薄的黑本，里面就是电话号码，然后一个星期就两三个会。所以说不是说忙就是一个好的事情，成功的人不一定是最忙的人，最重要是要掌控自己的生活，至少你可以做到，不能说你做的事情都是你喜欢的，至少可以控制到不做你不喜欢的事。
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» 挪威最大教学平台——It’s Learning简介 » Alice & Alex’s Travel
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It’s Learning 现在的版本是3.3，是世界上领先的教学支持平台，拥有超过100万活跃用户，该平台可以用于支持学生与老师学习过程的各个方面。该平台结合了易用性以及支持高级应用的可能，并且适合个个年龄层次的教学活动。该平台拥有从小学开始包括中学、大学、说是一直到博士生阶段的用户。可见其应用的广泛性。
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