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July 2005 Archives

Driving in Hangzhou Jul 31, 2005
Driving in Hangzhou is totally a different experience than walking in the city. The mountains are near the city and the city is part of the mountain. The traffic in east part of the city is good - the winding...
Hangzhou's Entrepreneur Spirit Jul 30, 2005
I am visiting some partners in Hangzhou again. For the second time, I am quite impressed by the entrepreneur spirit in Hangzhou. Recent, the Internet center seems to be shifting a little bit out of Beijing and to cities in...
Wiki is Weak-y Jul 28, 2005
Wiki spam is worse the email spam. Look at this picture: I receive about more than 10 Wiki author request within every minute and it never stopped since two days ago. The page they created contains link to their porn...
OOB Jul 27, 2005
These days, I am busy with some very key initiaves at Kijiji, so will Out of Blogging for some days. :-) Will be back soon....
Real Name Requirement for QQ Jul 25, 2005
The most popular IM QQ in China has a great feature called QQ Group. It is real time chatting groups integrated in QQ client. Recently, Tecent was asked to enforce real name registration for all group owners. People much submit...
Taxi Driver's Life Tougher - Part II Jul 23, 2005
Taxi drivers' life is one of the major topic I continously observe the report. They are very typical hard-working people in this city, and come from a world I don't normal have access. Talking with taxi drivers is always my...
RMB Finally Goes Strong Jul 22, 2005
This afternoon, I got a SMS from Eric that RMB finally changed its policy and become floating rate. The rumar is the exchange rate between RMB to USD may change to 8.1 or something (I cannot find sources and proof...
Kai-Fu Joined Google China Jul 21, 2005
Lee Kai-Fu Joined Google and will be the president of Google China....
Donghai Bridge Jul 17, 2005
Donghai Bridge is under construction. It is one of the most interesting projects I know besides the World Expo and the Hangzhou Bay bridge. The 32 km long bridge will extend to the island at the heart of the Hangzhou...
On Time Management Jul 16, 2005
Richard asked: As reading your blog, reading your life. I start wondering how can you manage your time so well? As a director of Kijiji, a person who keeps writing a blog every single day, and also occasionally gives speech...
The Heart of the City is in Theatre Jul 15, 2005
It was quite some time before I saw another exciting drama in Shanghai. About 6:20 PM, when I was in a discussion with a very experienced person in the classified industry, Wendy sent a SMS to me: "How abuot drama...
Hotmail Backlogs Jul 14, 2005
Let me get rid of my hotmail backlog. Sometimes, I can check hotmail account several times to se if there is no emails for me, but some time (just like recently), I didn't check it in the last two days...
When the House Prices Goes Down Jul 14, 2005
It seems the turning point of the Shanghai Real Estate has appeared. It seems to me that the price of real estate in Shanghai (one of the hottest topic) is turning down. Evidence: 1. The latest flyer I got from...
Back from Beijing Trip Jul 13, 2005
I am back from a short business trip in Beijing. I slept a little bit on the Boeing 777-300 aircraft - very nice seat + a little bit tired Jian Shuo = a good sleep. The two airports in Beijing...
Pudong Starbucks is Nice Jul 11, 2005
My favorite place to meet in the last two months in Shanghai shte the Starbucks at the Pudong side of the Bund, or typically refered to as Binjiang Store. Origional posted at Starbucks in A Day It is a nice...
eCommunity Center in Shanghai Jul 8, 2005
Shanghai is famous for the strong execution power of the government. I read about the eCommunity Center project on newspaper. It was reported that 400 eCommunity Center will be built in the recent 3 years to help people who do...
Web 2.0, With Whose Name We Gather Jul 7, 2005
I share the pain Mao had for frequently being asked about comment on Web 2.0. Web 2.0 started from a conference in San Francisco about 1 year ago, and now Web 2.0 is the hottest buzz words in the IT...
Shanghai Under Stress Test Jul 4, 2005
The weather is hot and all kinds of functions of Shanghai are therefore under a stress test - a test that seldom happened so strong before. The 37 - 39 exteremely hot weather not only generated red high temperature alarm,...
Registration? Claim of Buggage? Jul 1, 2005
Let me update something that seems important for me but I didn't take too serious about. :-) 1. Registration of blogs. After I registered all my information with the official website, nothing happened so far. I checked every other day,...