我终于把Flock 从桌面卸载下去了，倒不是因为最近硬盘空间吃紧（刚刚下载一些Google Video 内容才知道确实如此），而是因为Flock已经差不多对我毫无用处了。其实对这个桌面社会性浏览器的兴趣从半年前就开始淡化，当然此前还将其当作一个Proxy 浏览器去穿越GFW封锁，而自从用了Tor Button，就再也不需要专门一个浏览器来独立运行穿越的功能了。所以Flock 从我的桌面可以彻底消失了。
几个星期前还听说Flock的CEO出走，当然也就更说明了这个专门的社会性浏览器是“画蛇添足”，人们需要社会性软件，但是并不一定是一个独立的浏览器来包装各种功能。社会性软件的精妙之处在于分层和混合，每个部件之间的协作也是社会性的，而不是一家独揽。当时和Andreas 争论这一点，他大概真的没想到这一天。
via Lifehacker
When sending a message, type the name of the recipient you want to appear in your Contacts and then place the email address inside <>. That will auto-add the name to your address book formatted.
For instance, rather than:stewart@example.comin the To: box, useMaster Stewart Rutledge, the Wonderful <stewart@example.com>
我最近经常使用的桌面和手机互动服务SoonR 最近获得了A轮投资600万美元，这是我希望看到的，因为SoonR达到了基本的创新原则：解决用户的某个问题。这个问题是，很多用户在路上需要查询自己的电脑内容，或者与某些Skype 或者其他IM用户进行短小通信，他可以借助SoonR的网关实现这个能力，SoonR巧妙地利用了桌面流行的服务已经有的用户基础，例如Google Desktop Search，Skype等，让用户能够把他们延伸至和手机上。希望这次融资能够帮助SoonR更好地改进产品和服务，也能够找到商业模式。不过，如果收费注册，我作为用户可不要。
I found there are some of my emails to my gmail account(isaac.mao) seems not normal in these two days. Some of my subscription messages didn’t come, also there are some functional email messages didn’t appear as normal(e.g. Toread.cc). I wonder any others had same feeling too.
update: Gmail subsytem notify me that they delayed my emails, but didn’t tell the details. 
看了翟学魂的这篇“道哥为什么失败与互联网创业”，真的让我佩服大家对故事的理解和创意，这是社会创造的超级价值体现。
回到电影的启发，“事业的上升期”其实是每个创业者每天的一个指引，既可以自我鼓励，还需要自我检测。电影《疯狂的石头》里面的“道哥“（我历来欣赏刘桦/郭涛的演技）虽然行走在贼道，却也不失为值得创业者学习和借鉴，他的结局是肯定的，百分之九十以上的创业者的结局也是肯定的。这一点很残酷，但是事实如此，我们也不必过于悲哀。而某些”胜利者“，或者”成功者“又能够如何最终逃脱”宿命“呢？
所以，不必小瞧道哥，用”事业的上升期“来鼓励自己，以及用他的教训来反省自己才能够有自然和洒脱。反省什么呢？当然是他的错位，也就是错误的愿景，他如果不是从事”流氓“行业（例如，”流氓软件“），也不会最终有这样的必然结局，而一旦你走上了这条道路。即使如何大谈”素质“，也会付出代价，这是迟早的事情。近期中国IT领域的诸多沉渣不就是生动的“石头”故事吗？那些与“流氓”合作的投资者，也着实该反省自己的声誉是否愿意和他们联系在一起，当他们只关注那份利益的时候…
After reading the good selling book “Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell, I decided to explore an interesting sample in the book talking about an intersting story about a pop singer, Kenna. The story told us that Kenna was ever ranked high by many professionals in music industry, however, his songs can’t be accepted by common social rating system. Malcolm wanted to use this story tell us that some blink feeling from professional may not be correct.
You know, I may not got to have a try to listen to Kenna’s songs if I read the book two years before. But today, I’m so ready to have a try with many new web 2.0 services including those music services. I decided to create a Channel on Pandora.com to explore why Kenna’s songs can’t be adopted by popular mass. Actually, I like the tunes of this guy, however, the music really can’t attact me too much. Instead, it even make me somewhat depressed. The fancy Pandora service helps me to find that I don’t have such appetite and eventually help me switch to more open and high emotional songs in this channel.
Pandora and Blink, has such an interesting connection that everyone can try. It’s also the power of web 2.0 services, which can bring real personalized taste into a mass social filtering system. Someday, Pandora maybe the most powerful rating system in the world on any musics, to predict and do statistics.
