Furl to be accquired?
Got a email from “furl @furl.net” about Furl’s acquisition by Looksmart. It said that the news will be announced the next day. Congratulations, if it’s true.
Furl to be accquired?
Got a email from “furl @furl.net” about Furl’s acquisition by Looksmart. It said that the news will be announced the next day. Congratulations, if it’s true.
前天到一家Portfolio 公司，着实给我了一个大“惊喜”。上一周开会商量好的一个新技术策略，实际上完全推翻，采用了一条彻头彻尾不同的旧方法去实现。我历来很喜欢有独立思考能 力的团队，但是这一次我根本高兴不起来，原来商讨的策略中已经包含了对各种情况的分析，也基于此前所作的研发工作基础。而团队给我的“惊喜”是又回到老路 上，他们的理由是因为有国庆节前的一个“新版本”发布的死期限制，所以在开会后的第二天临时决定采用走老路，将来有时间再转到新的技术策略上。没有任何邮 件/电话/即时消息/留言通知我这个改变。
我哭笑不得，“两点间最短的路径是直线，不是三角形”，为什么非要自己找弯路走呢？在项目中，最关键的就是成员之间的信息沟通理解是否一致，而经过交流、 争论乃至争吵达成一致就要全力以赴，惊喜的应当是最终达到或者超出预期的结果。一旦决策，却又反复生变，这样的“惊喜”是无法接受的。
这一次，我最终选择了“妥协”，因为从当时来看，最短的路径不是再回去，而是只能先走下去了。对团队，应当是一次教训。
What’s is a good blog post?
Heh, fun and readable enough:
She��s shifting to what is a good blog post? Blog often — a lot, all day. Bob Scoble at Microsoft does 50 a day. It��s like fresh rolls. Funny is great. Let��s kick publishing��s ass here. Somebody called her on the 50 thing. There are people with good stuff to say who blog weekly. Key is the audience. Back to tips — make them short, quick, link to others. She loves to be over loaded…me, not so much. Other styles — op/ed, word of mouth. You, as an editor, can become a brand. Be something you can��t get anywhere else — that��s No. 1. Be original or die. And be faster than anyone else. Someone called it reverse voyeurism. Narcissism watch. Be daring and blunt. And of course, it��s a community. —– [Lee Waters: Blog Rolling]
Wikipedia at a Million
From CNBlog, Wikipedia has just published its millionth article. Ha, congratuations, also Chinese articles in Wikipedia reaches 14,000.
Talk About Fun!
Outfoxed(anti-fox news channel documentary) Offered for Remix Greenwald has announced that he is making much of the Outfoxed unedited footage available free of charge, under a Creative Commons license, to the public for remixing and re-using in nearly any manner imaginable. Under these licenses, holders of original copyrights give other people permission to use …
via [Furlog][Wired News]
How Social Software be categorized?
We talked about Social Software for months, since the first Social Software online forum at 2003/5 in China. The definition is still in discussion, but the business experiments never stop. There are always geeks and entrepreneurs to explore the new frontiers.
In some recent discussions, we talked about Flickr.com, Del.icio.us, Wealink.com, allconsuming.net, and of course blogosphere, as well other social featured new stuffs. In all these social software samples, people are connected by unstructured knowledge, including microcontent(blogs, urls, book titles, photos, contact information, etc.), it’s the tacit social networking within, all publicity can be controlled by user himself/herself. You can expand such social networking by protecing your proviacy at the same time. However, to those explicit social networking service(SNS), such as friend-making/professional matchmaking sites, it’s unlikely to be privacy ensured as the same time of expanding your networking(whether inviting existing connectors or request new connections). Or it’s so weak connection and no-use to people(people event don’t want to share their real name or real contact there). So Social Software will be re-categorized from konwledge type, privacy/publicity, people’s requirements, etc. The value of SS can also be categorized and compared accordingly.
Need more time to figure out…