Kiam's Blog

Attended this year's Donews Beijing gathering.  Thanks L.S. for telling me about it.  As I heard about it only in the morning, I didn't have time to register, so by the time I got in (after being on the waiting list), all the seats had already been taken.  I mingled in the room outside, exchanged some name cards.  Ran into an ex-colleague from Verity who is now with Google.  He is one of the exceptions; everyone else seems to have gone over toYahoo.  (Yahoo's current emphasis on social paradigms seems to bear their imprint.)

现在连搜索也能赢奖了。MSN搜索现在推出了"Search and Win"活动。

http://www.msnsearchandwin.com/

这样确实至少能让一些人尝试MSN搜索，不过还算是一个不能再普通的推广了。

美国新提出的法律“Global Online Freedom Act of 2006”将限制美国搜索引擎在莫些互联网受限制的国家（包括中国，伊朗，越南）的运营。如果通过，Google将必须把服务器撤出中国，提供的信息也将不能根据当地政府的需求而改变。

Link: Key points of proposed U.S. Internet freedom bill

I wanted to comment on John Battelle's blog entry, but unfortunately, it seems that new anti-spam software installed on his site is blocking me.  (See picture below.)  It would be helpful for a site that comments on China to not block replies coming out of China.

In any case, I wanted to thank him for pointing out that both the US and Chinese governments infringe on their citizens' privacy and other rights.  Both undesirable.  But I wish he would tone down on sentences like "The Chinese own a shitload of our debt, and are consuming a shitload of the world's export base of oil. As they consolidate their power, do you really believe they're also planning parades for us?"  Let's just have fun with our blogs and avoid all this tension-inciting stuff.  We have enough conflict in this world.  Instead, let's think of the Dragon as a cool dude coming to the party too.

Market caps below.  Interesting to note that: NetEase is worth twice as much as Sina and almost three times as much as Sohu; it is also worth 50% more than Baidu.

From: http://www.chinalabs.com/netstockstudy

First GMail, and now GBuy.  Looks like prefixing products with the letter "G" is going to be a defining feature of Google.

On single-letter prefixes of the Internet age:

First there was "e", as in "e-mail", "eBay" and "evite".  The "e" prefix standing for "electronic" became synonymous with all things Internet...although electronics, now that's a technology that dates from before most people alive today were born; to denote all things Internet, you really need "i", which leads us to...

Apple's "i" prefix.  I never found out what that "i" stands for in iMac and iPod.  Intelligent?  (Anyone knows, drop me a line.) 

Now "G".  There are 23 more letters to go.  :)

我还记得 Linux 刚出现的那个时代，是非常少人用的。现在在美国，60%的 IT 专业人士在他们公司里的服务器已经开始使用它了。

"60% of those surveyed are using Linux and other open-source software on servers, up from 49% just a year ago. "

http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=178601676

很多年前用过的实时操作系统 QNX ，也很强的，不过没有开源的那种宣传力量，结果现在还是在它的 niche market 里面。

Rollyo, a very Web 2.0 search engine.  This site takes user participation in search to new levels by letting users create their own search rollups: users can create their own custom searches over a set of web sites.  For example, see the one I've created: 中国 IT 博克搜索。It searches some of the important IT blogs in China.

如果有兴趣，请发简历到 hiring@bbmao.com。上班地点是北京。

 

职位1：软件工程师 (Information Retrieval) (4500-7000 RMB) (1位)

职位2：高级网站工程师 (4500-7000 RMB) (1位)

等等！

Google 的最新工具条支持收藏功能。不过中文支持不是很好，而且好像没法浏览别人的收藏。

祝大家新年快乐！

上个星期把 bbmao 的 Yahoo Konfabulator 搜索 widget 上传到了那里的搜索工具栏。至今每天平均下载量大约50。

现在已经晚上2点多了。。。弄了我第一个blog。现在开始可以发表意见了。：）