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Going Back to Shanghai Dec 10, 2006
I am flying back to Shanghai. If I can choose, the next time I travel, I will never try to transit in Tokyo. The travel time is 50% more than direct flight from San Francisco to Shanghai: 10DEC 10:50 SFO -> 15:05 NRT (11 hours 15 minutes), NH007 11DEC 18:40 NRT -> 21:05 PVG (3 hours 25 minutes), NH921 Flying time: 14 hours 40 minutes Transition time: 3 hours 35 minutes Total travel time: 18 hours 15 minutes Direct flight...
Hello from San Jose, Dec 4 Dec 4, 2006
Hello from San Jose. I arrived at 10:00 sharp at hotel. This time, I drove without a map. I am happy that I finally setup some sense of location, and for most places, like University Ave, Downtown Mountview, San Jose, Stanford, I don't need a map now. Getting to bed to have sleep now to kill the jet lag - my way....
Chaminade in Santa Cruz Nov 24, 2006
In the last week, the whole week, I didn't take any pictures in Chaminade Hotel in Santa Cruz. The week was so intense that all my time, including nights were used up. I did manage to take severl photos (when it is not too dark outside). Here they are: Chaminade seems to be a famous place. When I am back, Haisong told me he was also in the same hotel one week ago, for the Young Leader's Forum (from National...
Back to Shanghai Nov 20, 2006
I am back to Shanghai. Nice flight. I am not sure whether the trip was too intense for me or something else, I slept so well on the plane and was not aware of what happened during the trip. I wake up a little bit, wrote about 18 emails, and fell a sleep again. I managed to wake up about 14 minutes before departure, when the land of Shanghai is clearly in my sight again. For the first time in...
Heading Back to Shanghai Nov 18, 2006
I completed the amazing five days in Chaminade in Santa Cruz. What a journey it is! It takes some time for me to reflect and recap what I have experienced with the team, but there is no doubt that it was such a unique experience for me personally, and it placed big impact on me. Due to confidentiality requirement, I cannot explain more in details about what I did, but I will sumarize the learnings in the next few weeks...
Companies in Silicon Valley Jun 14, 2006
Company List: eBay Cisco Sun Intel Yahoo! AMD Palm Apple eBay 2054 Hamilton Ave, San Jose, CA Cisco, 170 W Tasman Dr, San Jose, CA 95134 Cisco is huge. There are so many buildings along the Tasman Dr. There are large Chinese shopping center and many Chinese restaurant near them. The naming of the company is the cisco part of San Francisco, and the sign is the Golden Gate bridge. Sun Microsystem, 4150 Network Cir, Santa Clara, CA 95054 Sun...
Flying back to Shanghai Jun 12, 2006
I am heading to San Francisco airport now, and my flight will leave SFO within 4 hours. I will be in Shanghai around 7:00 Monday, 12, 2006. During the 10 hours, there is no way to access emails (obviously), and phone calls (even more obvious). :-) The trip is very rewarding for me, both on business and on personal side. No only I had the opportunity to join the four full day of session, I was able to experience Silicon...
High-Tech Companies in a Day Jun 11, 2006
It is already late after I am back from good friends home. I hope I can post more about the trip when I am back to Shanghai. Tomorrow I am flying back to Shanghai via UA857 at 14:18. Obviously, I don't have time to put more information on blog tomorrow. To be short, I visited about 10 high-tech companies in silicon valley one by one in half day, from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM. San Jose, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, and Mountview,...
City in China = County in U.S. Jun 8, 2006
What? San Jose is bigger than San Francisco in terms of population? It may be a well known fact, but I just find it out. I keep reading "San Jose is the third largest city in California after Los Angles and San Diego". I was wondering whether San Francisco is not included in California, or have some kind of San Francisco, D.C. arrangement... It turned out San Francisco is really smaller in population than San Jose. According to Wikipedia: Rank...
San Jose Impression Jun 7, 2006
It is the third time in San Jose in the last 12 months. My impression are not the first-impression, just some more deeper understanding. 1. Mountains are Great. There are mountains whenever you drive. The mountains are just there, far at the horizon. No wonder at all, because the Silicon Valley is a valley anyway. There are mountains on both side. This time, I am closers to the mountain on the east side, because I move around places along the...
Arrived at San Jose Jun 6, 2006
Arrived at San Jose. California is always sunny - the three trips to CA were 100% sunny. I doubt whether CA rains or not. With the United Mileage Plus membership, I got 44A seat - the United Economy Plus seat with larger space. :-) Had lunch at Wing's Chinese Restaurant. You have to be in the States to really understand why applications like Google Maps are so important. Of cause, it is the same. When you are in China, and...
Flying... Jun 5, 2006
Pause the blog for a short period of time. I am flying... to San Francisco via UA858. It will be another long day....
Jian Shuo Wang Flying to San Jose Jun 2, 2006
Jian Shuo Wang is heading to San Jose on June 5, and will return on June 11, 20006. Ticket information: I am a big fan of technical details, abbr. and the secret codes used on the airline ticket. Here are all printed information on my ticket. I enjoy dig into details to find out meaning behind these characters. NON REF/CHANGE FEE APPLIES VA LID ON UA ONLY PENALTY/CHANGES31MAY06 WANG/JIANSHUO SHASHA W(LB1I/qG SHA MERCHANTS INTL RANS / GDSL SHANG HAI CN...
High-Tech Company Logo Plate Dec 26, 2005
Hengge and his Blogbus.com is going to move to a new warehouse in Longhua. He is obviously excited about the move and asked me for some photos of logo plate for high tech companies. He think it may inspires him about the design of new blogbus logo outside their small building. I am sorry that I didn't response in a timely manner. Here are some I grabbed in my photo folders. © Jian Shuo Wang. Logo on the buildings ©...
Weekend at San Jose Dec 12, 2005
Stayed in San Jose for the weekend. Thanks RC for taking care of me and showed me around the region and Carroll/Jim to host me for their trimming tree party at their beautiful house. I learnt a lot recently about how the U.S. society works. Some very interesting details I found: Head in or Rear in? At all the parking lot, most cars will put their head into the slot and rear pointing to the road. It seems the nature...
SFO Pictures Dec 9, 2005
Post some pictures in SFO on US 101. Victor was with me and took the pictures. Photograph by Victor Photograph by Victor Photograph by Victor Photograph by Victor Photograph by Victor Photograph by Victor Photograph by Victor Night, had dinner at Los Gatos - I love the small town - the town were lit up for X'mas - really nice place....
In San Jose Already Dec 6, 2005
Don't worry about me. Jia dropped us an SMS as early as 6:30 AM Shanghai time about whether we arrived safely. Thanks. I am OK. I am in San Jose already. The weather in California is great - as everytime I visit - sunny, cool wind, and nice color of the trees. California always seems so clean - there is a long way for Shanghai to go to get rid of pollution. I believe it is something meaningful that I...
Flying to SFO Dec 4, 2005
Flying to San Francisco again tomorrow. I will be back to Shanghai on Dec 15, Shanghai time. During these 10 days, I will keep blogging but keep in mind that the time of the entries will be offset by 8 hours. Itinerary PVGUA 858 05DEC 1345 0810 SFOUA 857 14DEC 1355 1930+1 I hate jet lag, and I know I have to experience it again. Life is the Accumulation of Mileage I log into my United Mileage Plus account and...
Jian Shuo Wang in San Jose in Dec Nov 19, 2005
I will have a trip to San Jose in early Dec. The weekend, Dec 12 and Dec 13, are open. I'd like to meet more friends there and take the opporunity to continue to improve my understanding about the U.S. sociaty and especially on technical side. Web 2.0 is a buzz word in China. I want to learn more new application and innovation. :-) If you happen to be in that area, feel free to post a comment or drop...
Thanks Everyone! Apr 28, 2005
I am back from SFO trip to Shanghai (three days ago), and I joined another meeting and they don't have Internet access, so... sorry for the pause of blogging these days. I am still very excited about the trip, and feel so happy to have great friends in the bay area. I know I have a very long list to thank. Here is the abbridged version. First of all, thank RC, Yumi and all the great persons in eBay for...
Meetup in San Francisco, CA Apr 24, 2005
I am thinking of hosting Wangjianshuo's Blog Meetup in San Francisco at Cafe Flore. I have no idea about this place. I asked Andreas where should I put the meetup, SFO airport or downtown. He directly posted me to Cafe Flore. It must be good, I think, although it can be a little bit far from where I live. So here is the detailed information about the meetup. Cafe Flore 2298 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94114 Time: 9:30 AM...
The Silicon Valley Spirit is Back Apr 23, 2005
I was sitting in the office of Rojo.com, the newly launched website to manage RSS more effectively with the help of tagging and friends’ recommendation (some kind of SNS). It is located in a large warehouse-like space – actually it is the AT&T building in downtown San Francisco. The reason it looks like a warehouse instead of an office is, it is a large space, in terms of areas and height. Evryone share the same open space by placing their...
Trip to SFO Apr 18, 2005
I am afraid there may be a short pause in the following days. I will be on my trip to SFO. I know I have lots of friends there in SFO, like Carroll. however, I am not sure if I have time during the trip to meet everyone. Maybe a Sunday meet-up (April 24) in Starbucks in SFO before I get on my flight is possible. The Art of Travel told people that when you assume that there is nothing...

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