Was in eBay in the morning.
Visited Google at noon. Thanks Zhiheng for hosting,
and met with Adam D’angelo and Charlie of Quora.com,
and spent dinner and night in Facebook.
P.S. My sina weibo backup is here
In Google and Facebook Today
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Baixing is Sending out 15 iPhone
Let my friends know a marketing program by Baixing. We are sending out 15 iPhone and 35 iPod Shuffle in the next few weeks. Check it out here. Good luck!
In the following two pictures are 20% of the people we have in our company. :-)
Death of Blogging?
I am trying to avoid this topic, but as a 9 year blogger, I have to admit that the declining of blog sphere has been an obvious trend, and we have to face it.
The whole Internet is involving quickly. Just like the Geocities.com cannot be hot for ever as its first few years, blogging cannot be as cool as 2001 – 2005. Comparing to the newest media, and tools, blog started to fall short in many aspects.
Real Time Web
The Internet has never been as instant as today. The whole Internet is more like a big IRC chat room by itself. When you enter some short messages, and hit enter in twitter.com or t.sina.com.cn, you are like chatting with the world like old MSN or chat room days. Your message is broadcasted to people, not only at the other side of your IM, or people in a chat room, or a IRC channel. Your message is seen by the whole Internet. That type of real time is never possible before.
Blogging has been the frontier of the Internet of real time web. Blogs have been quicker than news in early days, but now, it is slower than twitter, or weibo.
Information Fragmentation and Defragmentation
To make real time web possible, you have to cut what you are going to ship into smaller chunks. You just cannot input 500 worlds before you hit “Send” in your Instant Messager (MSN or QQ). Only information pieces, not articles, or longer paragraphs can goes fast enough, and make it easier to consume on the reader side. It is easier to combine many short 140 characters sentences into a bigger article that makes sense, than putting many paragraphs togather.
Information defragmentation involves a process of information distribution, and combination. “Follow”is a much easier action than RSS – people can learn to click a button quicker than installing a RSS reader, locating the small orange RSS icon, get the URL of XML, and add it to the reader. People like simple stuff. Always.
Personalized Web
With the fragemented information in real time, that is huge volume of information. You have to personalize the web. Different people should see different thing on the same page. To give everyone the same thing – the last tweets from everyone – just does not make any sense. The reader will complain there is nothing interesting on the homepage of twitter, and the writer complains that their message got skip to the 100+ page in one secnd. The only solution is personalized web – everyone has its own news feed (in Facebook’s term) or time line (in twitter’s).
Blogging itself is not personalized to user. It has to be used in combination with a RSS read and manual work of many people. That is also a reason why people prefer microblogging.
The Death of Blog?
Does the evolution of Internet claim the death of blogging? Not that quick yet. Although I see significant decline in number of blog posts people write, and less readership than before, and at the mean time, the microblogging writer and readership went up dramatically, I still think blogging will survive and be a long lasting platform for people to write stuff, although not as hip or cool as before. It is still the best way to write longer articles that has long last values, instead of real time information like news, or dinner appointments.
At the end of the day, blogging or microblogging or the future stuff are just the tools of thoughts, and the only thing that matters are the thoughts behind it, and the people around it.
Harvard MBA Recommendation Questions
I started to help people to give recommendation for business schools. This is the question from Harvard, and I think they are great dimensions to assets people’s ability. This is a list:
Below Average (Button Third)
Average (Middle Third)
Good (Top Third)
Excellent (Top 15%)
Outstanding (Top 5%)
Leadership Potential:
Self-Confidence:
Personal Maturity:
Professional Maturity:
Imagination and Creativity:
Motivation:
Intellectual Ability:
Analytical Ability:
Quantitative Ability:
Teamwork Skills:
Listening Skills:
Ability in Oral Expression:
Ability in Written Expression:
Self-Awareness:
Global Perspective/Awareness:
Interpersonal Skills – With Subordinates/Colleagues:
Interpersonal Skills – With Superiors:
Beijing use Lucky Draw for License Plate
After 20 years for Shanghai to use bidding for car license, Beijing is introducing a lottery based license plate system. You have to submit application, and try your luck. For the first week, the odd is 1 out of 12. With more and more people joining and the previous participants still in the pool, the chance gets fewer and fewer. If I can vote, I would definitely vote against it.
Just watched the 10:30 CCTV-2 program by Rui Cheng Gang 芮成钢, another YLFer focusing on Gabby. He interviewed John Holden, the previous chairman of National Committee of US-China Relationship, and one of the founder of YLF program, and shared his own experience with Gabby and Mark. (YLF was held in Huangshan in 2003, and Gabby’s home state Arizona in Sedona in 2004).
YLFers Gathered to Pray for Gabrielle Giffords
I didn’t expect a normal Sunday morning started with beeping of many email alerts on my phone. It was from the email threads from YLFer friends that I heard the sad news about the shooting of Gabby and other innocent people in Arizona. I was completely shocked. It turned out to be the headline of all major news sites, even the headlines of Sina.com.cn later this morning.
Gabby was a YLF 2003 Fellow, and so was her husband Mark Kelly. They met each other via the Young Leader’s Forum in Huanshan in 2003. Thier marriage was among the few other unexpected, wonderful side effects of the US-China relationship program. It is also rare that both persons of a couple are friends of the same group of people.
With the strong personal connection within the small YLF community, we felt so sad for Gabby and Mark. Besides the emails, the 8 Shanghai based (and visiting) YLF just gathered in Lujiazui to send our sympathy, support and prayers. The same gather happens in NYC.
It will take me more time to understand the whole situation, how it happened, and why, but it does not require too much thoughts to immediately feel the pain, shock, and sadness, when the person involved is someone you know, and greatly admire of.
I was angry to see the typical comments on some Shanghai forums who expressed some kind of “joy”when something bad happens in America. It is a shame for the persons who wrote it. It is a global community and everyone on both side of the ocean should make the personal commitment to fight against the senseless violence like this. China is also not unfamiliar with tragedy with completely innocent people involved. We should stop this violence no matter at what reason, at what country.
I just hope Gabby could be fine very soon.
Baixing Campaign to Win iPad
We are sending out 13 iPad, 28 iPad Shuffle in the following 7 days to Baixing’s users. In case you are interested to enter the luck draw, click here.
Curiosity Keeps People Happy
I am generally happy in 2011, from the first few days of holiday and the first day of working. At night, Wendy and I went downstairs to the Paris Spring shopping mall for a cup of coffee. Two interesting things happened.
Starbucks!
To our greatest surprise, a section of the shopping mall was under construction. On it hangs big Starbucks logo, and big “OPENING SOON”. Below it was “We look forward to serving you amazing coffee, we just have a few things to take care of first.”.
Great! I finally have a Starbucks store that I can walk into from my bed room in 2 minutes. The store is just outside my reading room window.
I started to walk to all Starbucks store in a day in 2003. There were just 12 of them. Then it grew to 117 in 2010. Now, it is coming to Pudong near my home.
I am a big fan of Starbucks. I hear you, their coffee may not be the best. I personally prefer Coffee Bean and Tea Leafs too. But I like the store.
Where is it?
About 5 years ago, Eric randomly pointed to a Microsoft ad and asked Which subway station was the picture taken?. That led to an interesting journey of searching, blog posting, comment reading and replying, and finally result finding.
Today, I did the same thing. At the basement floor of the shopping mall, on the wall, there was a big photo of an Europe architect. On the architect, it showed something like this:
TIS XII PONT. MAX. …. MDCCLXII
I know MDCCLXII = 1000+500+100+100+50+10+1+1 = 1762. What the rest means?
By doing a simple Google search in my iPhone, I learnt that the whole sentence should be:
POSITIS SIGNIS ET ANAGLIPHIS TABULIS IUSSU CLEMENTIS XIII PONT. MAX. OPUS CUM OMNI CULTU ABSOLUTUM A. D. MDCCLXII.
It is carved on the Trevi Fountain, one of the most beautiful fountains in the world, in Rome, Italy.
Let me quote what I wrote 5 years ago on curiosity of life here again:
This is a vivid example of curiosity for life – the rational motivation for many things we did. I enjoyed the time to search for the answer for the simple question “Where is this station”, and enjoyed the excitement when I happen to see the picture on my dinner table. The research time and the excitement moment are quite rewarding to me. It brings something new to life, so the life is not boring at all. Sometime the reason we travel, ask, research, and study is simply out of curiosity. Curiosity is the genuine human being’s instinct that must be satisfied. The city life, sometime, has killed the passion so people feel boring, while there are millions of poorer people who are happier.
Challenges to Trust
I started to re-think about the Google’s decision to withdraw from China. If the rumor “attack-from-within” turned out to be true, it is a very reasonable action. The company’s culture is built on trust – new hires from intern to employee were given enough freedom based on trust – they can see documents they need to see, and access to resources they need to access, without limit. That was exactly like the time in Microsoft before 2000 (I still remember how shock I was when I was able to see piece of source code few weeks after I got into the company).
However, that culture, and the way of people’s behaviors were seriously challenged when integrity issue happens. When misbehavior of very few force the company to change its foundation – the full trust to its people, it is the worst challenge possible. No over-react is too over.
The same philosophy applies to the gun right in some countries. Although massive shooting caused many people to die, people still firmly believe gun rights equal to human rights. They are not defending the criminals, they are defending the foundation that people should be trusted to own their own weapons. It is a matter of choice of lifestyle and culture.
Integrity can never be comprised, no matter how bad the consequences are, because it was the culture of “trust”, and freedom to trust people that in stake.
I hope I had made it clear about it.
Android Seems to be Very Easy
At 3 PM in the afternoon, started to read an Android book (Hello, Android, Introducing Google’s Mobile Development Platform, Third Edition) and started to write some Android application. It turned out everything was simple and smooth, much better than I had expected. It always takes people some time to learn new things, and as a technical guy by heart, I just cannot stop and don’t do some coding on the Android platform myself. It won’t occupy too much of my time, since my time is better used in other stuff than coding, but to get a real sense of a system, the best way is always to do it yourself.
jianshuo@facebook.com
It is obviously a new era.
I was happy to register jianshuo @ hotmail.com email address about 14 years ago, when hotmail.com was just launched one year before. That was the starting point of Internet, and email communication.
Then I got jianshuo @ gmail.com, the main email address I am using today (I still keep telling people the old jianshuo @ hotmail.com email address, and let the mail forwarded to the gmail one).
This morning, I got a new email address jianshuo @ facebook.com – the Modern Messaging System of Facebook. I have to say, Facebook has a good product design that we can learn a lot from – the way they helped people to get started with the new messaging system. Feel free to send some test mail to my new email address, and see how it goes.
My Observation
At first glance, and few try, I have to say, it is a wonderful product. I was amazed by the following improvement:
1. How it shows the sender – no longer email addresses, or simple profile – it is a complicated profile of a real person.
2. How it replies. It makes replying an email as quick and simple as replying a chat message – just one single line that you can send message back to the person with some typing and just a “return” key. How far it is from “stop writing, change to mouse, move over send button, and click”, to “enter”? It is farther than people think.
Good job again, Facebook team!
The New Year Holiday Ends
The last day of the three day holiday of the New Year. Enjoyed the three relaxed day before putting all my effort back to my website. It is shining here in Shanghai. It snowed a little bit when I was in the Liangzhu 良渚 area in Hangzhou yesterday, and I heard it snowed this morning (I found some evidence on my car), but now, it is sunny and pleasant in Shanghai again.
Looking back, I just realized how age, or the arrival of Yifan changed the family routines so greatly. The two-person family is filled of party, movie, afternoon tea, and friends. The three-person family is more of staying at home, or family gathering. It is kid-centric. I feel I am far away from this city – whether I live in Shanghai or other small town does not matter that much for a family, as long as there is kindergarten, and parks.
New Expressways
Yesterday, we drove back from Hangzhou. The misleading signs (“To Shanghai”) led the cars to a new expressway, named S13 练杭高速 near Hangzhou. It turned out it connects with S12 (申嘉湖高速), and S32 in Shanghai. There are basically no traffic on the newly built expressway. I was always amazed by the newly addition of infrastructure in the Shanghai/Hangzhou area. I often run into roads that leads to sometimes seems “nowhere”.
Xinyang Market
The third day of the new year, Wendy and I went to the Xinyang Market under the Science and Technology Museum. It is the closest replica of once famous Xiangyang Market. We bought some cloths, and shoes for the kid – a fresh new year.
The Art of Travel
The new year also started with some reading. I started to re-read Alain De Botton’s The Art of Travel, the book I desperately fell in love in 2005. I appreciate the sensation it helped readers to build in themselves in daily life. Isn’t it pleasant to start a new year with some good books?
Again, Happy New Year! I am happy to have enjoyed the first 1% of the near year (or about 1/3 of the new week).
First Day of 2011 in Hangzhou
I am at Farmer’s Paradise at north of Hangzhou with several of Wendy’s friends. The first day of 2011 is very pleasant, very different from the first few days of 2010, when Yifan got cold and it was completely a mess for the family. I sent SMS greetings to my close friends, and received many. New Year is a good excuse to connect with long lost friends, and say hi. That is social stuff (the reason the Poke feature was successful).
The Farmer’s Paradise is an interesting place. In some sense, it is even comparable to our experience in Disneyland in Hong Kong – the merry-go-around, and the facilities are the same (well, I mean that Hong Kong Disneyland was disappointing, and didn’t deliver much more than a normal amusement park. The show at 2:00 PM successfully engaged people to play games in the New Year. Pretty decent work.
Very relaxed and energetic after the New Year arrives. Shall I celebrate new month every 1st day to feel that type of refreshment?
Wendy, Yifan and I will stay in the Farmer’s Paradise hotel for one night, and head back to Shanghai tomorrow before noon. Good choice to come, and good choice to bring Yifan with us too.
Shanghai Pudong Library Photos
The first post in 2011 – good year. Waked up early, shining, cold outside, but warm inside. Sitting in my reading room, thinking about what to share today as the first post.
I posted a blog about the open of Pudong Library, but without photos. Now, I got some.
© Jian Shuo Wang. January 2011
© Jian Shuo Wang. January 2011
© Jian Shuo Wang. January 2011
© Jian Shuo Wang. January 2011
© Jian Shuo Wang. January 2011
It is a huge interior space with several meters high – two floors combined. There are huge stairs inside the room. The room is actually the entire building – the big square surrounding the bookshelf in the middle, with windows on four directions and tables around it. It takes quite a while to walk around the whole room.
Refer to my previous open blog to find out location. You should go there to check out the modern architecture, although I don’t enjoy reading there – I even doubt the value of a library in the current digital world, just as I doubt the value of Expo.
P.S. Going to Hangzhou today with Yifan and Wendy for the New Year party of Wendy’s Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business class. The first party in 2011.
Happy New Year, 2011
Happy New Year!
Days pass our lives quickly. When people got busier and busier, days pass even faster. The last day of 2009 was still vividly in my memory, when the bell of the year 2011 rings.
I read through all the posts I wrote in the year of 2010. It was a long year. The beginning of the year was not a good one – my ankle was broken so I could not walk, and Yifan’s forehead was hurt. The crazy Internet control in the winter of 2010 was depressing. That was not a very good start. I have my best hope for the year of 2011, and I believe the year of 2011 will be a very good and exciting year.
Here are a list of posts I wrote in the whole year of 2010.
December 2010
- Node.js is Exciting December 26, 2010
- Paused Blog for a While December 23, 2010
- Misunderstood Hong Kong December 12, 2010
- Tired November 30, 2010
- I am in Beijing November 29, 2010
- Unicom iPhone Cuts My Friend Connections November 28, 2010
- Expo Destruction Started November 26, 2010
- Baixing Recruiting Event in SJTU November 24, 2010
- Taxi as Bottleneck of Hangzhou November 23, 2010
- 10 Years Later November 22, 2010
- I am Second Employee of Adventure Works November 21, 2010
- Yifan Love to Land Aircrafts November 20, 2010
- Facebook Effect – the Book November 20, 2010
- Chinese Blogger Conference Changed Location November 19, 2010
- Chinese Blogger Conference Changed Location November 18, 2010
- Attending China Blogger Conference 2010 November 17, 2010
- People Matters November 17, 2010
- Mondays November 15, 2010
- Busy Days for Blogging November 14, 2010
- Expo is Over! Finally! November 07, 2010
- Last Chance to Visit Expo October 26, 2010
- Baixing Classified October 26, 2010
- Socialism vs Western Democracy October 23, 2010
- Yifan Loves iPhone October 23, 2010
- Tell Them You are Going to Chuansha October 22, 2010
- Shanghai-Hangzhou Express Train October 22, 2010
- Timber Cove, Sonoma October 20, 2010
- Happy Birthday to Me October 18, 2010
- International Financial Center Opens October 10, 2010
- Blog Writter Blog October 10, 2010
- Qingdao Area Geography October 09, 2010
- Restart Again October 07, 2010
- My Contact Management Tips October 06, 2010
- Running on G15 October 06, 2010
- Using iPhone to Blog October 05, 2010
- Days Like This October 03, 2010
- In Qingdao Now October 02, 2010
- Drove to Rizhao, Shandong October 02, 2010
- Shanghai to Hangzhou via Hangzhou Bay Bridge? September 29, 2010
- Shanghai to Hangzhou Highspeed Train September 28, 2010
- Holiday is Approaching September 27, 2010
- Apple Flagship Store in Shanghai September 26, 2010
- My Friends in Singapore September 24, 2010
- Meetings in Singapore September 22, 2010
- Singapore Pte Ltd September 21, 2010
- Singapore Second Impression September 20, 2010
- Beijing Traffic Jam on Wide Roads September 20, 2010
- Injected the Measles Vaccine September 18, 2010
- Singapore e-Visa September 16, 2010
- Why Chinese Citizen Needs Visa Everywhere September 15, 2010
- I am Using iPhone 4 September 14, 2010
- Photos of Hong Qiao Railway Station September 13, 2010
- 8 Years of Blogging<
/a> September 11, 2010
- Urbanization of Shanghai September 09, 2010
- Shall I Sign for Measles Vaccine September 08, 2010
- How Startups Enter China? September 07, 2010
- Back to Windows World: Silverlight September 06, 2010
- Advanced Asphalt Road Paving System September 05, 2010
- Weihai by the Sea September 04, 2010
- Blue Sky of Shanghai September 03, 2010
- Yifan’s Happy First Day in Kindergarten September 02, 2010
- Typhoon Hits Shanghai August 31, 2010
- Cost Structure of the Kindergarten August 30, 2010
- Yifan’s Kindergarten August 29, 2010
- Journalist Should Not Be Director August 29, 2010
- Urbanization of Luoyang August 27, 2010
- Back to SJTU BBS August 17, 2010
- Written Chinese Keeps China United August 16, 2010
- Mob Violence August 15, 2010
- OOB Today for Three Kindoms August 14, 2010
- Minimum Fee 120 RMB for Top of SWFC August 13, 2010
- Now We Have More Interns August 12, 2010
- Quora is Growing Crazily August 11, 2010
- Questions About Trespassing August 10, 2010
- Does Shanghai have Beach, Nearby? August 09, 2010
- Integrity is Hard in China August 08, 2010
- Yangtze River is Now a Yellow River August 07, 2010
- Integrity of Resume August 06, 2010
- I Love Tech Talk August 05, 2010
- Phoenix Tree-Lined Streets in Shanghai August 04, 2010
- Back to Smallness – Fortress Besieged August 03, 2010
- Pigeon Point Lighthouse August 02, 2010
- Shanghai is Hot and Humid August 01, 2010
- Lake Tahoe Photo of Me (Some kind of) July 31, 2010
- Grand Canyon Photos July 30, 2010
- Do Travelers Feel People are More Friendly? July 29, 2010
- Why People Travel July 28, 2010
- The Roads in the West July 27, 2010
- Aspen Airport Photos July 26, 2010
- Wrapping up the Summer Trip in US July 25, 2010
- Second Day of Fortune Brainstorm Tech July 24, 2010
- Fortune Brainstorm Tech #FortuneTech July 23, 2010
- Leaving for Aspen July 22, 2010
- More Perspective about US, and China July 21, 2010
- I Found a Las Vegas in Shanghai July 20, 2010
- San Diego July 19, 2010
- Route 66 and Interstate 40 at Seligman July 18, 2010
- Restart the Daily Blog July 17, 2010
- Reserved iPhone 4 at Apple Store July 07, 2010
- Jian Shuo is in Bay Area, Again July 06, 2010
- 1 USD = 6.79527864 RMB June 28, 2010
- The Bund Tunnel June 27, 2010
- Pudong Library Opens June 22, 2010
- World Cup 2010 June 21, 2010
- Deposit Money for Discount – Huge $$$ June 20, 2010
- S16 – Hangzhou – Pudong Expressway June 17, 2010
- Train from Shenzhen to Guangzhou June 13, 2010
- In Shenzhen June 10, 2010
- Speak in Fortune Brainstorm Tech June 07, 2010
- Semi-Erotic Ballet in Argentina Pavilion June 06, 2010
- Yifan is Three Years Old June 02, 2010
- ShanghaiExpat Redirected to 114 Page June 02, 2010
- Yifan’s First Children’s Day in Kintergarden June 01, 2010
- Become a Baixing User June 01, 2010
- Back from Beijing May 30, 2010
- I will be in Beijing Thursday to Saturday May 27, 2010
- Gary Wang’s Speech May 26, 2010
- USA Pavilion at Shanghai Expo May 24, 2010
- Wendy is Back via FM9116 May 22, 2010
- Similarity among Opposite Opinions May 21, 2010
- Long Line in Expo as a Biased Filter May 20, 2010
- I am Hiring an Assistant May 18, 2010
- MeiGuoGuan at Twitter May 17, 2010
- New Media from the State Department May 15, 2010
- OOB for Few Days May 12, 2010
- Competence Level May 07, 2010
- Don’t Use Hate to Stop Spread of Hate May 06, 2010
- Security Tightened at SJTU May 04, 2010
- The Devil Wears Prada May 04, 2010
- My Plan for Visiting Expo May 03, 2010
- Back from Jinshan Beach May 01, 2010
- Shanghai Expo Opens May 01, 2010
- Should Shanghai Host Expo? April 27, 2010
- I Promise to Add Twitter Profile Photo, Later April 26, 2010
- Facebook is …. Scary April 24, 2010
- Yifan’s Story about Kindergarten April 23, 2010
- Worried for Expo April 22, 2010
- The World of Leadership of Management April 21, 2010
- Role of a People Manager April 19, 2010
- My Car is Named Bandenger April 18, 2010
- Traffic Getting Worse before Expo April 13, 2010
- Metro Line #10 Opens April 12, 2010
- I Started to Get Interested in Economics April 11, 2010
- Expo is 22 Days Away April 09, 2010
- Why I Didn’t Understand Social Media April 08, 2010
- My Twitter Dump from March 12, 2007 April 07, 2010
- Metro Line #2 Extends to Pudong Airport April 07, 2010
- Xindanwei is Cool April 06, 2010
- Nice Technical Blogs April 06, 2010
- A Highschool Classmates Gather April 06, 2010
- Shanghai Expressway Map April 04, 2010
- Movie – Crossing Hennessy April 03, 2010
- Nissan Teana 2.5 XL April 02, 2010
- Yifan’s Song – Night of Military Port April 02, 2010
- Expo Taxi and More Blurred Night Shots April 01, 2010
- Bet is Greatest Tool to Increase Visability April 01, 2010
- Expo is Nearer March 31, 2010
- Bye Bye Goudaner March 30, 2010
- Yifan Fell Asleep by Himself March 30, 2010
- I Sold Out my Google Nexus One March 29, 2010
- Metro Line #11 Extension Opens March 29, 2010
- GM EN-V Unveild in Shanghai March 29, 2010
- More Hongqiao Airport T2 Photos March 28, 2010
- Travel is Life Intensified March 28, 2010
- Forward Hindsight March 28, 2010
- Experienced Security Guard March 26, 2010
- Complicated Roads to Hongqiao T2 March 26, 2010
- Jian Shuo Got
His New Car
March 25, 2010 - HTHT IPO March 25, 2010
- I Love the Garage in Hongqiao T2 March 24, 2010
- Global Village March 24, 2010
- Look up! The World Above! – Part II March 23, 2010
- Long Taxi Lines in Hongqiao T2 Too March 23, 2010
- The New Home of Google in China March 23, 2010
- Sand Storm Hits Shanghai March 21, 2010
- G60 Shanghai-Kunming National Expressway March 20, 2010
- 7 Year Anniversary of Wedding March 16, 2010
- Yifan’s Second Day in Kindergarten March 16, 2010
- Hongqiao Airport T2 Opens March 15, 2010
- Yifan Started His Kindergarten Life March 15, 2010
- Happy Birthday to Goudaner (6th Year) March 15, 2010
- Yifan’s Parking Lots – Part II March 14, 2010
- Electronic Power Towers March 13, 2010
- Look up! The World Above! March 13, 2010
- Yifan’s Parking Lots March 13, 2010
- People Started to Wait at Red Lights March 13, 2010
- Baggage Check in Shanghai Metro March 13, 2010
- This Moment, in Shanghai March 10, 2010
- In Market We Trust – Part II March 10, 2010
- ROBOCOPY D:\my Z:\ /E /Z March 10, 2010
- Shanghai Snows – Heavily, Shortly March 10, 2010
- In Market We Trust March 09, 2010
- Lining up for Metro – Part II March 09, 2010
- Metro Line 7 and 9 Became Full Time March 08, 2010
- Hongqiao Airport Terminal 2 to Open March 08, 2010
- Photo in Google, 2010 March 08, 2010
- ThinkPad to Dell Latitude E4300 March 08, 2010
- I am a Hotel Tester March 06, 2010
- Yifan’s Stories March 06, 2010
- Breakfast Meeting in Shanghai March 06, 2010
- Jet Lag Builds Early Raiser March 06, 2010
- My Passion to Second Tier Cities March 06, 2010
- Wind Blows West to East March 06, 2010
- The Scare of Shanghai Heals March 06, 2010
- Travelogue of Tahoe March 04, 2010
- Wrapping up 2010 Winter Trip March 04, 2010
- Jian Shuo Wang in Forbes March 02, 2010
- Skiing in Tahoe February 28, 2010
- Tsinghua & Jiaotong University Alumni Gather February 26, 2010
- I Should Not Open Nexus One at Night February 26, 2010
- Met with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook February 25, 2010
- Reported by New York Times February 25, 2010
- I Bought Nexus One February 25, 2010
- Street Names in America is Mystery – Part II February 24, 2010
- Busy and Excited February 24, 2010
- Content Scattered on the Web February 24, 2010
- The Hills of Sillicon Valley is GREEN February 24, 2010
- Building Safty by Increasing Vulnerablity February 23, 2010
- US Visa is Simple to Get February 23, 2010
- How Stupid I am Not Knowing Priceline February 23, 2010
- Google Reader Support PubSubHubbub February 22, 2010
- Learnt What Open House is February 22, 2010
- Hotel Searching Experience February 21, 2010
- Why Restaurant’s Menu is Printed Daily? February 21, 2010
- Street Names in America is Mystery February 21, 2010
- Hello From Palo Alto February 21, 2010
- PVG to SFO in Febuary February 19, 2010
- Xinjian Road and Renmin Road Tunnel February 19, 2010
- 117 Starbucks in Shanghai Already February 18, 2010
- The Most Beautiful Shoreline February 18, 2010
- Fireworks for God of Fortune February 17, 2010
- I have Driven Around Hainan February 17, 2010
- Enabled PubSubHubbub on my Blog February 17, 2010
- My First Car Rental Experience in Hainan February 17, 2010
- I am on Google Buzz February 17, 2010
- Wenchang to Wanning February 14, 2010
- Very Disappointed in Haikou February 14, 2010
- Sanya Bay February 13, 2010
- Yifan on the Road February 13, 2010
- Jianfengling Ridge in Hainan February 13, 2010
- Travelogue – Haikou, Hainan February 12, 2010
- I Really Love Interaction of Buzz February 12, 2010
- I am in Sanya February 09, 2010
- 8.8 mm February 05, 2010
- Yifan’s Latest Picture February 03, 2010
- People are Basically Good February 02, 2010
- Spring Festival 2009 January 31, 2010
- Long Lines for Avatar 3D IMAX January 30, 2010
- Started to Walk January 29, 2010
- Trend Against Semantic Web January 28, 2010
- Notes on Harvard Justice Course Part 3/4 January 26, 2010
- My Favorate Road – Xingguo Road January 23, 2010
- How to Access Twitter and Facebook in China January 21, 2010
- Avatar January 20, 2010
- Google in China – Business Decision? January 18, 2010
- My Brain Does not Work Well January 17, 2010
- Snow of Beijing Airport January 15, 2010
- Crazy Week in 2010 January 15, 2010
- Google’s (Right) Choice January 13, 2010
- Back from Snowy Beijing January 12, 2010
- Met with Xiaolai in Beijing January 11, 2010
- Two Consistent Internet Companies January 09, 2010
- Book Earlier for Cheaper Ticket? Not So in China January 07, 2010
- I Don’t Like 2010 January 07, 2010
- My Advice to Entrepreneurs January 03, 2010
- Metro Line 9 Opens January 01, 2010
- Lego Duplo Car for Yifan January 01, 2010
- New Year Eve 2010 January 01, 2010
Node.js is Exciting
Sign… Sometimes, when I got caught by some interesting and exciting technology, I was completely caught by them, and started to spend hours to figure out how to use them. The new toy for me this afternoon was node.js.
Paused Blog for a While
I’d post a blog briefly update about the (long) pause of my blog. Pretty busy recently, so I just feel I am distant from the city life. I am getting back to the normal pace now.
Misunderstood Hong Kong
aDuring the last weekend, I stayed in Hong Kong for few days. I found I had some serious misunderstanding of the city.
Hong Kong has 40%+ land reserved. I started to be interested in the Hong Kong Island Trail, a path winding 50 km in the mountains from the peak. A another good reason besides attending meetings, and shopping in Hong Kong is, mountain hiking. It sounds crazy, but it is rare to find that good path.
For the first time, we stayed outside the Central area. We stayed in the Causeway Bay. The people there, and the buildings there are so unique, and I completely enjoyed the great amount of people put into the small area. The pedestrian flow at green light crossing the Hennessey Road was amazing (the reason I watched the movie Crossing Hennessey again).
I completely enjoyed the food there, especially the sweetie. It is rare that I would be attracted by a city because of food. Even Chengdu didn’t attract me at all, but the Soup and the Sweet in Hong Kong just keep pulling me southward. Wendy and I had many soup and sweet those days.
Hong Kong is much more than what it showed to me in the last few trip.
P.S. Disney land? What a joke. No one – including Yifan – enjoyed it. It is the worst deal we had in many years. We thought about leaving the place one hours after we got there.
Tired
It has been two intensive days. I have arranged 11 meetings for myself, and Wang Chen in Beijing and meeting with 20+ people, and a presentation with about 100 people.
Got back to hotel now. Going to sleep now.
BTW, I enjoyed big hotels, and now I more and more enjoy smaller hotels like the Orange Hotel in Zhongguancun area. In US, I started to hate those big hotels with hundreds of hotel rooms. Maybe just 20 rooms or fewer are better for me. I am at second floor of the hotel. Think about the elevator, 20+ floor hotel room, and overseeing the whole city – I hate that now.
Good night, Beijing.
I am in Beijing
I predicted that 2011 will be a year with a lot of Startups coming out – the another Spring of Internet in China. I still believe in so. I am in Beijing these days, and I have/will visit many startup companies, like Douban, Qunar, Baihe, Sina, Sohu, Tencent, Google, Innovation-works, and many other media/companies during the three day trip. The Beijing’s weather is not very cold, although it is technically speaking colder than Shanghai, but the atmosphere of the Internet world is still has hot as summer – well, compared to the real peak of Internet bubble, it can be called as late spring. The recent new models like LBS, Mobile Internet, Groupon-clone, and twitter-clone have been enough to fill entrepreneurs and copiers into. One thing that is so unique in Beijing is, these companies are so close with each other in the Zhongguancun area. These big/small companies are lined up side by side with each other within walking distance. That is a unique competitive advantage for this world – just like Silicon valley to the rest of the world. If you ask me to pick only one place that is closest to silicon valley in China, that has to be the Zhongguancun area in Beijing.
Although the agenda is fully filled, ping me via twitter, email, or mobile if you want a meetup.