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Before you hit 'Enter' on MSN, read this

Elanso — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:53:10 GMT

IT is often said that the language we use online is less formal than that we use in a letter or, on certain occasions, in direct speech. To some extent this is true, but it can also be a misleading and dangerous assumption.

The thing about online communication is you have no idea what the person who is reading your messages is feeling. For this reason it is always a good idea to be polite and cautious when writing e-mails or instant messages to your friends.

Chinese can be a direct language, but in English people often talk around a subject rather than address it head on. So instead of saying "Please meet me here" or "Do this for me now", English speakers usually go for indirect phrases like "Would it be possible", "if you have time" or "It would mean a lot to me if…"

If you have a close relationship with someone, you can still run into trouble if you are sarcastic. If you have asked someone to do something and they need a bit more time, you might joke with them: "What? You still haven't done it yet? What's wrong with you?" While this seems funny to you, yanking the other guy's chain may not go down too well if your friend is not in the mood.

If you have foreign friends in different countries, the time difference can also be a factor. While you are waking up for class on Friday morning, they may be heading to a party on Friday night. You will be serious and they will, probably, be light-hearted. So don't be annoyed if they seem distracted. Just try to message them while you are relaxing on Sunday night and they are getting up for work on Monday morning!

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Some Views on Interface

Elanso — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:01:14 GMT

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China UCD application cluster (Q Cluster Number:40294602) conducted a discussion of the relationship between interface and interaction. Now I want to write down my opinion on interface and interaction and expect more participation from followers.

Search “What is Interface?’ through Google, you would see a lot of definitions. While my view is that interface has two levels of discourse, one of which is sensation, including sense of visual, smell, hearing, touch and the like, and the other is emotion, as is easier to understand.

The opinion I prefer is that the procedure of interface design consists of Structure Design, Visual Design and Interact Design, which are the subsets of interface (Interface is a port.).

After reading Thought Fish’s ponderation on interface, I still keep my view. Since he considers interface design is more like the page of visual design or the design users can see. Here is his composition chart.

It can be concluded from my opinion that the left side of interface design should be composed of structural layout, contents and visual designs. And the controversial lies on the comprehension to interface.

Here are some References:

What is the User's Interface?

The Ponderation of Interface Design and Interaction Design

Interaction Design: What to Be and What not to Be

Three conditions of Interaction

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Who Will Rule The New Internet?

Elanso — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:47:35 GMT

Take what man makes and use it,
But do not worship it,
For it shall pass.

An anonymous wit scratched those lines on the side of a junked car door and lugged it to a trail near my home in Northern California. The middle of a pristine, ancient redwood grove is the wrong place to find a rusted-out car door, but the words magically transformed the thing from an aggravating piece of junk into art. I Googled the quote as soon as I got home, of course, but found nothing. (Thanks to Google, we live in a world where "I don't know" has become an unacceptable response. So my inability to identify the author there is driving me crazy.)

My town is pretty close to Silicon Valley, and most of my neighbors make their living in technology, while I make mine writing about it. All of us, though, worship at the altar of bright and shiny things. These days, it's the impending launch of Apple's next-generation iPhone that has the faithful davening. If the whispers of pending miracles are to be believed, this new phone could end up becoming the next big "platform."

A platform, to computer people, is the software code on which third-party applications function. There are scores of big platforms out there—something like three dozen in the international mobile-phone business alone. But a truly successful one can extend far beyond its immediate group of users and effectively create and control an enormous market. In the computer industry, IBM dominated the first commercial platform with its expensive mainframes and operating systems, aimed at corporate users. Seemingly overnight, IBM was supplanted by Microsoft and its Windows operating system as the PC revolution took hold. Windows, in turn, is now losing its power as the Web—owned by no one, accessible to all—becomes the dominant platform. (Yes, the Web is nothing more than a big layer of code; all those websites we visit are merely applications that sit atop it.)

Every major player in Techland wants to create the next great platform, of course. What's new here is that it's possible for any number of them to succeed. "Among the things that are different from the old status quo is the idea that one will win," says Marc Andreessen, who helped write the first widely adopted browser, Mosaic, which popularized the Web. The Internet is a much larger playing field than PC operating systems. "Trying to decide which will win," Andreessen adds, "is kind of like debating whether beef, chicken or lobster is going to win the market for food."

Still, for wonks like me, it's been riveting to watch three of the most innovative companies in Silicon Valley—each representing a fundamental phase of the information era—battle it out. Apple, Google and Facebook are, respectively, an icon from the pioneering days of personal computers; the biggest, most profitable company yet born on the Web; and a feisty upstart whose name is synonymous with the current migration to social networks.

In many ways, these companies are technology's standard-bearers, though their guiding philosophies differ. Google, for instance, advocates an "open" Web and tends to push for open standards and alliances among developers. Facebook, with its gated community of 70 million active users, offers a more controlled experience and, so far at least, wants to keep its users safely within its walls. Apple comes from the old world. Its elegant products cocoon customers from the chaos of the information age, but the Apple experience tends to be highly controlled, with Apple hardware at the end points and Apple software and services, like the iTunes Music Store, in between.

The winners of the platform wars stand to make billions selling devices, selling eyeballs to advertisers, selling services such as music, movies, even computer power on demand. Yet the outcome here is far more important than who makes the most money. The future of the Internet—how we get information, how we communicate with one another and, most important, who controls it—is at stake.

Why Facebook Opened Up
The word platform reached buzzword status a year ago when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the start of a movement. "Social networks are closed platforms," Zuckerberg told a gathering of about 800 developers in San Francisco. "Today we're going to change all that."

You can watch the video of the speech, as I did, by Googling the name of the developers' conference, "F8." What made F8 significant, historic even, was that it was the first time the Facebook platform was thrown open to developers. Anyone who knew how to write applications for Facebook was invited in. Andreessen says an open-coding environment is key to any successful platform because the easier it is to use, the more developers will be drawn to it, making the platform that much more powerful. Facebook also gave developers free distribution. Users who want to add a new app can do so with one-click simplicity. All this, says Andreessen, who is rumored to be considering a seat on Facebook's board, has helped make Facebook compelling: "The point of being a platform is you can enable creativity on the part of thousands or millions of other people who you don't have to pay and who have ideas that you wouldn't have thought of."

That's precisely what has happened at Facebook during the past year. A kind of gold rush took hold as developer after developer started writing simple applications. As of June 1, some 24,000 programs—ranging from simple social gestures, like the ability to virtually poke a friend, to fully formed games like Scrabulous—were available to Facebook's users. Expect loads more. Facebook has given out its API keys—the code that developers need to access Facebook's platform—an astounding 400,000 times, many more than even Zuckerberg expected.

Zuckerberg, 24, is a hot ticket on the conference circuit, and when I spoke to him, he had just returned to Palo Alto, Calif., from a major tech-industry event near San Diego. There he had been grilled yet again on whether he'd sell Facebook to Microsoft, whose minority investment gave Facebook a $15 billion valuation. (Microsoft, which tried and failed to buy Yahoo!, could use a new platform itself.) Yet again Zuckerberg said no, he's not selling out—he's just trying to build a great and viable platform and that takes time. Zuckerberg speaks in a steady, mellifluous tenor; he has a long neck and tends to point his chin upward, as if aiming the bell of a saxophone. "A lot of the last year in developing the platform has just been keeping up with the runaway success there," he says.

That's what happens when you create a successful platform: a virtuous circle blooms, with a mass of users attracting a horde of developers who build fun or useful stuff, which in turn pulls in even more users. Needless to say, there are some pretty worthless and annoying applications too. At Facebook, app writers' income is derived from advertising based on the number of people who install their programs, and a bunch have adapted in intrusive ways. Facebook has taken flak for applications like FunWall, which made it easy for users to accidentally spam their entire friend lists with e-mail invites to install FunWall. Zuckerberg says Facebook is tweaking its platform to help the most useful apps to spread while squelching the junk.

I ask Zuckerberg about the theory that closed, proprietary networks like Facebook could stifle the Net's innovative spirit. That idea is the subject of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, a new book by Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He argues that the rise of gated, closed communities like Facebook, the advent of the iPhone and even the seemingly innocuous standards-setting of Google could draw nerd talent away from the disruptive kind of innovation that occurred on the wild and woolly Net. Zuckerberg pauses for a minute to think, then says, "I generally agree with those principles and think that type of openness and portability is extremely important." Great platforms are often closed when they start and open up only as they mature and can handle the load. He adds, "We're kind of leaving that initial phase now and moving to a more open phase."

In fact, last month Zuckerberg announced Facebook Connect, which would allow users to take their contact lists with them to websites that add a snippet of code. Over time, it will be possible for, say, a blog owner to embed a Facebook-style "wall" on his or her site, which would allow one to read only the comments scrawled there by friends. It's a very cool idea. Facebook everywhere! But there's only one problem. A few days after Facebook Connect was announced, Google launched a nearly identical plan called ... Friend Connect. And if there's anything that could slow Facebook's frantic pace, it's Google.

Google Tries to Connect
The first phase of the web's growth was all about putting information online and giving people a way to find and connect to it. The second and current phase is all about connecting people to one another.

"Social is the new black," says Joe Kraus, who oversees Google's efforts to build out a social layer that runs across the entire Web. In this, as in all things that Google does, Kraus' strategy has been to create an alliance of social networks that will use open standards rather than Facebook's proprietary network and coding language, so that developers can spread their applications.

"Google has relied on an open Internet to make its entire business," he tells me. "It has a genetic predisposition for openness." That's partly because Google's core business, search, depends on openness. Google can't find the things you want on the Web—documents, music, images and so on—unless they are open and accessible, Kraus says. The richest Internet company on the Fortune 500 (it's ranked 150, with $16.5 billion in revenue), Google has a business plan that depends on the Web being used by as many people as possible. That's why the company spends so much time and energy building new applications that make the Web more useful or fun.

Social networks are a threat to that business; users tend to stay within their network and communicate among themselves or simply fool around with apps. When Facebook's users are playing Scrabulous or tagging photos, for example, they're not using Google. Indeed, they're more likely to discover new things via friends or in-network applications such as iLike, a service that matches your friends' musical tastes to your own.

So Google retaliated last November with OpenSocial, an alliance of Facebook's competitors—MySpace, hi5 and Google's own social network, Orkut, among others—to try to create a write-once, run-anywhere application platform. That means a developer, with only modest tweaking, can build an application that runs across all the major social networks except, of course, Facebook. "When you talk to developers, most of them don't have 50 people; they can't write their applications 50 different ways," Kraus says. "They really want to write their application once and get as much distribution as possible."

He definitely has a point. But I wonder if Google is too late—and old—for the social-networking party. "Google recognizes it needs to become more people-oriented, but it needs to add that to its existing platform. It's not at all native," says my neighbor, Seth Goldstein, who runs SocialMedia, an advertising network for social networks. "Facebook was designed from the ground up to render these complex and nuanced social relationships."

Why the iPhone Matters
Apple's calculus is much simpler: it doesn't matter who prevails online—Facebook, Google, both or someone else. Steve Jobs simply wants to ensure that you use his devices to get there.

To that end, the new iPhone, which is expected to be announced on June 9, is "hugely significant," says Andreessen, who now presides over a company, Ning, that allows anyone to build his or her own social network. "The iPhone, a lot of people around here believe—and I think this is true—is the first real, fully formed computer that you can put in your hand," he says. "It has all the requirements it needs to be a viable platform."

Matt Murphy—a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers who oversees the $100 million iFund to seed start-ups that build great iPhone apps—goes even further. He claims that the iPhone will "absolutely be the driver of the post-PC world." Murphy points out that the kit needed by developers to build iPhone apps has been downloaded more than 200,000 times, and he estimates that about 1,000 applications will be available to consumers when the iPhone-apps store launches with the phone. "If you look at so many of the constraints that have held back the mobile ecosystem, Apple basically takes all of those away and provides an open platform, a great device and a user base that's rabid for these new kinds of applications," he says.

Jobs' great skill has always been integrating cutting-edge technology and making it accessible. Flat-panel monitors, moviemaking software, wi-fi, digital-music players, touch-sensitive screens—these have all been out there over the past decade or so in ragged and unpolished ways. His genius was finding and repackaging them, making the technology work to delight the masses. Similarly, Apple's iPhone 2.0 will popularize "geo-location"—think of the satellite-based navigation systems in many cars—as a way for people to communicate wherever they are.

Yet again, Google, which is fighting the platform wars on multiple fronts, could be Apple's stiffest competition. It is leading another coalition to build an open-operating system called Android that will work in the next generation of cell phones as well as other consumer devices. The Open Handset Alliance has 34 members—mobile-phone carriers as well as handset makers, including Motorola, LG Electronics, Samsung, China Mobile, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile. Though Google ceo Eric Schmidt sits on Apple's board of directors and Jobs saluted Google as a partner whose apps were on the iPhone, Apple is notably not in the alliance.

This appears to be a case of—in Valleyspeak—"frenemies," companies that work together in some businesses while competing in others.

The first Android-powered phones will arrive, Google says, in the second half of the year, possibly around the same time as the new iPhone. At a recent Google developers' conference, the company showed off, for the first time, a generic cell phone running the operating system. Touch sensitive, with an onboard, motion-sensing accelerometer that can also place a user precisely on a Google satellite map, the device resembles nothing so much as an iPhone. Android, explains Andy Rubin, Google's director of mobile platforms, is an open platform for developers � la Facebook; the code is theirs to modify. He says developers have so far written more than 1,800 applications, which could be distributed on a Google site arranged according to popularity, as YouTube is. "There's some pretty innovative stuff there," Rubin explains. "This is merging the handset and the Web and coming up with something completely new."

To spark development, Google held a competition that will ultimately seed 10 application developers with $275,000 for the best apps. Robert Lam, whose Eco2go was named last month as one of the 50 finalists for the top prizes, says he decided to develop his application, which helps users compute and reduce their carbon footprints, for the Android platform rather than the iPhone because it's so much easier. Developing for the iPhone "would have cost us an annual fee to list our application, and we would have to share 30% of our revenue with Apple as well," Lam says. That said, Lam is already looking into porting the app over to the iPhone after Eco2go is established. The iPhone could end up being enormously popular, and at this stage of the game there's no sense in foreclosing options.

I agree. Like him, I'm rooting for everyone in this war because it sounds as if—the concerns of Harvard's Zittrain notwithstanding—we all win here. Andreessen is right when he says the Web is so vast that it defies attempts to control it. With Google riding shotgun, it strikes me as unlikely that Facebook or anyone else can pull too far ahead. Also, I believe Zuckerberg when he says Facebook will continue to open over time. It's the smart move, and he's a smart cookie. Finally, I want to get my hands on the new iPhone. Its time will come and go. But for now? Great technology, today as always, renders us as gods.

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Design And Implementation Of The Web-based Laboratory Information Management System

Elanso — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:42:37 GMT

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With the development of information technology as well as the maturity of building university campus network, it has been a necessary tendency for laboratory help of advanced management information system and software development platform.

Thehigher school’s laboratory is the important base to test teaching, develop studies, promote the development of science and technology scientifically, also is the important composition part of school teaching research work. The construction and level of laboratory’s management directly concern the quality of training talent. Now, the Internet is changing our life greatly. Along with modern campus informative process pushing forward, it has become the tendency that the computer enters every aspect of daily teaching life and work. Leading into computer standardize management, will rise work efficiency maximum inevitably, use laboratory resource efficiently, rise school’s benefit, ensure the basicness work of the experiment teaching quality.

The web-based laboratory management information system is composed of the following six function modules: system maintenance, laboratory management, management of laboratory staff, laboratory equipment management and inquiry statistics. The application of this system can realize efficiency, conveniency and accuracy of laboratory management, and it can help to improve work quality and efficiency. Therefore it will have some good effect on experimental teaching and help to promote the interaction between teaching and management.

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Let's forget about Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook for a minute

Elanso — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:43:40 GMT

A lot of entrepreneurs are inspired by Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and other megacompanies. But let’s face it — these are outliers. They are exceptions. They are the rarest of rarest cases.

That’s not to say they aren’t worth paying attention to, dreaming about, and otherwise admiring, but it’s handy to have success stories that are a bit more common scale. A company doesn’t have to earn billions to be a great inspiration for budding entrepreneurs.

So, ignoring the usual suspects for now, which companies inspire you? Which companies do you respect enough to say “I love what they’re up to. We’d like to achieve their level of success.”

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Now that Microsoft's out of picture, Yahoo! rebounds with Google

Elanso — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:40:44 GMT

Now that Yahoo! has finally decided things are really over with Microsoft, the company has found room in its heart for a new love: Google. The two companies today announced an advertising partnership that will basically place Google AdSense advertisements alongside Yahoo! search results.

The deal isn't exactly comprehensive. It covers "some of" Yahoo!'s web properties, and the ads will only be displayed in the US and Canada. The agreement is non-exclusive, which means that Yahoo! may display its own ads or ads from other parties as well.

In a press release, Yahoo! says it expects to raise about $800 million in revenue per year from the deal. Google, in return, posted a blog entry saying the deal is "good for users, advertisers, and publishers." The US government isn't quite convinced yet. Back in April, the Justice Department responded to a test run of a Google/Yahoo! partnership with an investigation. And today the chairman of the US Senate Antitrust Subcommittee said the Senate will be closely examining the deal.

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The Linux of Novell

Elanso — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:31:38 GMT

Since then, Novell has turned itself into a play on Linux, the open-source operating system that's gaining market share both in the corporate arena and among makers of consumer electronics. It's a remarkably ambitious strategy, which has produced a rapid -- and to some extent, unexpected -- turnaround. After doing two major acquisitions to build its Linux portfolio and coming up with what at least one analyst calls a "clear roadmap" for moving its NetWare customers to Linux, Novell is winning credibility as a Linux player.

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About Intel

Elanso — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:17:42 GMT

The changes come as Intel has righted itself after a series of miscues, and returned last year to the revenue levels it attained in 2000. The slump that followed the Internet boom had cast a cloud on the legacy of Mr. Barrett, who led a $10 billion acquisition binge that brought little direct payoff.

But Mr. Barrett, who Mr. Grove credited with rebuilding Intel's manufacturing prowess after losses to foreign competitors in the 1980s, also kept spending money on new factories. Mr. Otellini put the investment at $32 billion over six years, creating the production technology and capacity to both meet chip demand and add new capabilities to its products.

The other key investments, Mr. Otellini said, were in sales activities in emerging economies and designing chips for laptop computers and other mobile products. Largely as a result, he said, Intel expects 2005 to be the third year in a row with revenue growth measured in double-digit percentages, ahead of some projections of 5% growth for the PC market as a whole.

Intel has also retained control over more than 80% of the microprocessor market, despite stronger competition from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

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We are together

Elanso — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:13:02 GMT

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--Selection of Posters for Wenchuan Earthquare Relief by ChinaVisual.Com

“First of all, we are human beings and then we are designers.”

On May.16,2008, ChinaVisual.Com started wide collection of charity posters for relief and rescue among Chinese designers all over the world and this campaign is called “we are together”.

Donation and contribution is a way as well as poster designing.

Designers are also volunteers and we all take part in relief and rescue.

Please pay attention to special subject of ‘Great Earthquake, Heart Resurrection ’ on 2008-6th ‘Youth Digest- Color Page ’ for more beautiful posters.

Aid Wenchuan

Affected Tears

Wenchuan Has Hope

Root Is Linked. Blood Is Connected.

We Unite As One Forever.

Blood Bound

God Bless China

Home Rebuilding

Break and Reborn

Blood

Future

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Yahoo China has finally been strapped to the e-commerce tanks

Elanso — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:50:25 GMT

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June 4 news, Mayun announced that Yahoo China has been merged with Koubei Net. The new company named Yahoo&Koubei Company. It’s said that this newly formed company will develop the e-commerce, community and business communications about life services, which based on the local and entire network search.

Until now, all network of Ali Group have been bound up with e-commerce.

Yahoo China has experienced all the historical changes in China’ Internet. It can say that Yahoo China is one of the witnesses who witnessed the tremendous changes of China’s Internet. Its operators and develop directions also have replaced several times.

Now, Mayun says, he will forge a best life services search, or a best life services platform to Chinese consumers.

Mayun emphasized in the appointment post:

The integration of Yahoo China and Koubei Net will develop their advantages. Yahoo China is rich in the technology of Internet search, community, communication and information, and the operation basis. While Koubei Net has rich experience in operating life services and the teamwork. We believe, the newly formed Yahoo&Koubei Company will provide a fine online life services experience to most of the Chinese consumers.

The appointments of the new company are as follows:

Yahoo China’s former president Jing Jianhang is appointed to the president of Yahoo&Koubei Company.

Koubei Net ’s former general manager Li Zhiguo is appointed to senior Supervisor of business operation department, Yahoo&Koubei Company.

Yahoo China’s former vice president Li Junlin is appointed to the CEO assistant of the Group to help the CEO carrying out the market analysis and coordinating with APEC Organization.

The appointments above will come into effert in June 1, 2008.

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Will 51．COM Launch Open Platform in June?

Elanso — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:20:02 GMT

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In the 3rd Asian highest-level Information-telecommunication hi-tech summit held today, the advanced Vice President of 51.COM, Yonghe Yao disclosure to the outside that they will launch an Open Net Platform like Facebook F8, and they will likely to publish it in June this year!

51.COM is a net platform for social communication based on personal use. It launches eight professional functions of personal data storage which are albums，gallery，collected works，dairy, music box, notebook, favorites and address book, conducting to provide a interactive space for the young to communicate, participate, and show themselves. It is now the most advanced hypothesized public relations network in China, and both its active users and the volume of website are only to QZone of Tencent and Campus network of QianXiang. While in the 3rd Asian highest-level Information-telecommunication hi-tech summit held today, the advanced Vice President of 51.COM, Yonghe Yao disclosure to the outside that they will launch an Open Net Platform like Facebook F8, and they will likely to publish it in June this year!

Although Sohu has launch SOW open platform in high-gesture on the standard basis of UWA（Universal Widget API）launched in Netvibes before, its open degree is quite limited that it is not on the same level with Facebook in terms of openness, and at best we can only regard it as a polymerization platform of Widget. However, if the news of 51.COM Open Platform is true this time, 51 will be the first Chinese Internet company which launch open net platform in a gesture of large website in China. By the current status of the young in 51.COM, this is absolutely a very good piece of good news : for one thing, it will resolve the difficulty of no place to sell their own APP of many developers of small websites, which will help the small websites not only enjoy the data source of large website users but also directly challenge Campus network and QZone; for another thing, for 51.COM itself, the open attitude will also help 51.COM increases and optimizes the coherency, liveness and experience of its users.

Yes, we have to admit the crisis on the back of the prosperity of Facebook. For High-level users, what they don’t want to see is that more and more vulgar culture is compelled to emerge before them, which is the very limitation in the content of SNS of Open API. However, at the same time, we also need to see clearly the benefits of the open concept to SNS, for we can’t tell that probably it is the watershed of going to profits for socialized website. So, as far as most China’s SNS’s concerned, I think they need to bravely try much more times.

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Away From Tobacco

Elanso — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:51:12 GMT

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May 31 this year is the annual World's No Tobacco Day. “No tobacco teenager” was this year’s theme. The main meaning was aim to the teenager：“tobacco advertising and promotion should be banned, away from tobacco. ” The plane of this periodical is to call on everyone to work hard for the next generation leave far away for tobacco.

Tobacco is the significant risk factor which can be prevents and leads to death in the world. It is also the only consumer goods which people follow the manufacturers’ described to use but lead to 50%consumers dead. There about one billion teenagers in the world, and 85%of them live in developing countries. After the teenager go through their weak, easily affected childhood, their health is at the golden age. However, tobacco use and the other deadly dangerous factor are threatening the teenager’s heath.

At tobacco industry’s instigation, once teenager tastes this high degree addiction product, it easy addicted to tobacco for life. The most effective way to protect teenager not harm by tobacco is: a ban on tobacco advertising and promotion, put a stop to tobacco industry to sponsor any kinds of sporting events and activities.

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Nielsen:China's market value of the internet advertisement of the third quarter reached 2.62 billion yuan.

Elanso — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:49:28 GMT

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The analysis report on Chinese internet advertisement market for the third quarter, issued by Nielsen// NetRatings, the company of internet media and market research, shows the market value of Mainland China's internet advertisement for the third quarter reach nearly 2.62 billion yuan., an increase of 14.1% year on year, the value of the whole market has accumulated to 6.6 billion yuan form the beginning of this year to date, and the market size of the whole year is doomed to break 9 billion yuan.

According to data, the market value of the internet advertisement of the previous 3 quarters is 1.69 billion yuan, 2.29billion yuan, and 2.62billion yuan respectively. The advertisement value of September first breaks the record of 1 billion yuan per month and reaches 1.01 billion yuan. Meanwhile, the quantity of advertisement and promotion programs of the previous 3 quarters reach 2661 and 19049. The four industries of automobile, IT, FMCG and finance are four pillar industries of the internet advertisement which contribute to over 60% of the market value of the advertisement.

Besides, the Top 50's major releases' value accounts for almost half the whole market, 47%, and promotion programs accounted for 31%. Super large internet advertisements which exceed 100 million yuan issued by Faw-mazda, ING Group, eBay, Lenovo, SAMSUNG, China Mobile, Nissan and so on.

Nielsen//NetRatings analysis state it is expected that internet advertisement of our country in the fourth quarter of this year will maintain stable and continuous increase and the advertisement value will exceed to 3 billion yuan as well as market value of the internet advertisement of the whole year will break 10 billion yuan, due to growing identity and importance of the internet integrated marketing of transmedia and transplatform, coupled by the busy season of the market driven by the active consumptions at the end of year, further deployment of the marketing of 2008 Olympics and constant practices of new advertisement promotion of varied kinds.

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My New Office

Elanso — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:40:54 GMT

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I have not renewed my dairy for a long time. Because I was busy for upgrading my new company and office. I had my own office at last.

I spent several months on decoration and arrangement the house. I moved finally.

Aha!Let me show you the photographs.

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Some interesting jobs

Elanso — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:57:03 GMT

Some interesting jobs

The recent release of FogBugz 6.0 has, approximately, doubled our sales, and, while I fully agree that often small teams can accomplish a lot more than large teams, we have a lot of interesting work to be done here and there never seem to be enough people to do it, so we've looked for some areas where adding more people would not necessarily slow things down.

We came up with three fairly interesting new positions that might be a perfect fit for you or someone you know. It's relatively rare for Fog Creek to hire full time engineers; many of the people we've hired in the past have been former summer interns, the company is quite small (20 people), and we don't hire lightly, so this is a rare opportunity to get in the door and take advantage of the fact that Fog Creek was designed from the ground up to be the kind of company where the best software developers want to work (about Fog Creek).

The first position is in system administration. Normally, I'm pretty happy to hire inexperienced but bright people and let them learn on the job. Even for fairly important jobs, like, say, President of the United States.

But system administration is one of those things where experience is really important. You don't want your new system administrator to learn about how to create secure and robust online services by building something insecure and unrobust and learning from experience. So for our first system administrator, we hired Michael Gorsuch, because he knew how to operate our systems well on day one.

This is a dilemma for smart people who want to learn how to be world class system administrators. If everybody is asking for x years of experience, how are you supposed to get that experience? You can take an entry-level job in a big company as, say, junior DNS administrator, typing changes into DNS configuration files, but you won't learn very much.

Here's where Fog Creek comes in. Michael and I talked about this and decided that our second hire in that department could be totally inexperienced at system administration, as long as they were smart, got things done, and had the personal characteristics to become a great system administrator (attention to detail, insane curiosity, constant need to be learning new things, strong ability to stay levelheaded and organized even in the most chaotic of situations, doesn't soil pants in fear when presented with a command prompt, thinks "rtfm" is a great answer, etc.) This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to learn the field and gain substantial experience on an interesting, mixed environment including Unix and Windows, desktops and servers, internet hosting and internetworking, open source and Microsoft, with all kinds of interesting moving parts. And you'll be learning from a real master, one on one, in a great environment with zero corporate BS, management that trusts you to order equipment you need without going through some kind of 6 month budget committee process during which a shrill corporate attorney who has been somehow promoted to "head of the capital infrastructure committee" is nervous about using open source hippie software because it seems kind of "communistic," and she had a terrible experience on a commune in the 60s when this really gross guy who never bathed and wore flip flops even in the winter... well, anyway, I'm getting off the subject. At Fog Creek when you need equipment you order it. That's really all there is to it.

Interested? System administrator at Fog Creek

Our next interesting position is for a Chief Linux Guru. This is a hybrid position for somebody who really loves Linux, wants to do a lot of coding, but also wants a more diverse problem-solving kind of job.

Here's the theory behind this position. Our main product, FogBugz, is a server product, available for Windows, Linux, and Mac. On Windows servers, everybody has pretty much the same minimal stuff. So our setup program usually works off the shelf.

On Linux, though, there's a lot more diversity. People have different distros, they have different versions of different important components like MySQL, PHP, and Mono, and they're not all instantly compatible. A lot of Linux administrators went through their server when they first set it up removing things that they didn't think they'd need for "security" reasons ("if you're not going to use /bin/ls, delete it--it's just a security hole waiting to be found", they said), and now, here it is, three years later, and they're installing FogBugz, and they don't get why ls isn't working. Bottom line: it takes a little bit of hammering to get FogBugz to work on many Linux systems.

So this position is for a Linux coder who will also be responsible to get FogBugz working on our customers' systems. My pet theory is that if the person who takes the call when a customer is missing, say, the Pear Mail module, if this person is the same person who maintains the setup code, then they will eventually get sick of sshing into customers' servers and typing "pear install Mail" for them and they'll just fix it in the setup code once and for all. And I think a lot of people would find a job that combines problem solving with new software development is going to be pretty interesting, especially if, as I said, you love Linux.

On the development side, you've also got to handle all the Linux-specific code. Right now, that's a mix of PHP, Mono, and various scripting languages. Most of FogBugz is written in our own portable language, Wasabi. You'll be responsible to maintain the Linux-specific parts of the code, and you'll be working on keeping Wasabi for Linux at the same level as Wasabi for Windows.

Interested? Linux guru at Fog Creek

Finally, we could use an extreme Windows Internals guru. I don't mean an "Access/VB" kind of guru. I mean a Win 32, COM, .Net, GDI programming, low level Windows systems stuff in C++ and C# kind of guru. And when I say ".Net" I don't mean "Ooh look I made an ASP.NET website with a GridView that shows a list of customers." Uh-uh. Leave that bush league stuff to the boss (me). For this job, you'll be working directly on a native .NET programming language, generating CLR bytecode and integrating with the Visual Studio debugger. You'll be resolving obscure threading model problems in Other People's Code. You'll be hacking GDI to improve the performance of our remote desktop service, Copilot. You'll be figuring out why trivial things that used to work don't work any more in 64 bit Vista. This is the perfect job for the kind of developer who has been doing API level Windows programming for years, who has been reading MSDN Magazine since it was called MSJ, who actually understands what Don Box is talking about, who can explain how to instantiate a COM object from a DLL without touching the registry, and who can figure out, from crappy Microsoft documentation, how to play the first four bars of Gaudeamus Igitur on a computer without a sound card.

Interested? Windows internals guru at Fog Creek

Don't small teams get more things done than big teams? Didn't The Mythical Man Month prove conclusively that you should have the smallest team possible? Don't startups with two kids run circles around the big companies? Isn't Fog Creek getting big and bureaucratic? Why hire more people?

No, no, no, and no. It's a little bit more complicated than that. At 20 people we still fit around one lunch table and we're far from not being able to get things done. And what MMM claimed was only that adding people to a late project makes the project later. The more people you have, the more communication you need, which counterbalances the added productivity of the extra people--that's the MMM conclusion--and so when we add people we always try to find a way to do it in a way that's efficient. But the bottom line is that we have a long list of things that we want to do, and our too-small team is forced to do things in serial that we could do in parallel with a couple more people. So in the long run I think we'll continue hiring carefully and discretely, keeping each of the core teams small (our biggest dev team right now is, um, three people), and I think we're still a ways of from worrying about Fog Creek being bogged down in bureaucracy.

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In Order to Be Safe, Please...

Elanso — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:06:58 GMT

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This is a PSA made by the telecom operator in the Middle East and North Africa. It owns an unique way that uses the damaged mobiles as the scene of the car accident. It implies that many car accidents happened because the drivers answered the mobile without a head set during driving. Just as the advisement says,"Save your life and ours, use a head set."

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German couple puts baby on eBay for 1 euro

Elanso — Sat, 31 May 2008 06:27:29 GMT

A German couple offered their eight-month-old son for sale on internet auction site eBay and said it's just a joke, but police are investigating the case, media reported Monday.

A number of people called authorities across Germany after seeing the offer on eBay that read: "Baby -- collection only. Offer my nearly new baby for sale because it cries too much. Male, 70 cm long."

The opening bid was 1 euro ($1.57). There were no bidders during the two hours before the offer was removed, police said.

Renee Beck, a police spokesman in the Bavarian town of Krumbach west of Munich, said on Saturday the 23-year-old woman told them it was only a joke.

But he said police were nevertheless continuing their investigation and the baby was put in state custody.

The mother was quoted in Bild newspaper saying: "It was only a joke. I just wanted to see if someone would make an offer. They've taken my son to hospital and I've got to take psychiatric tests next week."

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Frequent Used Mobile Phone Software

Elanso — Sat, 31 May 2008 05:29:33 GMT

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Seeing Yueguang and WebLeOn have written something about the software of mobile phone, I just want to do so.

1. Undoubtedly, iSilo is the first. This is a book reviewer, by which we can read books. You can hold it in your hand, or read books when lying in bed. Moreover, the reviewer can play it automatically standing on the bed. The characteristic can be big or small. Also, to protect your eyes, you can switch it into white characters and black scene.

2. Secondly, Office OneNote Mobile, which can be updated at the same time with OneNote in your computer. In most case, it can be used as a memo and I can arrange them after work.

3. Intelligent Mobile Phone Office. It should not be regarded as a mobile phone software because the operation should be finished by the computer. I use it to back up my address book, send back message quickly. Of course, the coolest thing is to send message to chat, thanks to my M-zone identity.

4. The fourth is Cele Task, please seek out the specific address by yourselves. One task of it is to eliminate the process, the other is to sort out memory. Oops, the culture of a company will be inherited. The great ethic of memory-saving was inherited from windows to os in the mobile phone.

5. The fifth is IE kept by Smartphone. Anyhow, IE is easier. The other broswers are either memory-wasting or bug-flooding. If you feel you can use the browser, well, it is enough.

There are many other softwares such as MSN QQ2007 GMAIL,etc.However, they are not that useful. I will not as busy as being online 24hours a day. First, I am not a cumtomer sever, too much IM will occupy more time , Second, there are few important mails to reply. I am a lazy man that I don't want to switch on my hand phone. If you write me on Friday, please wait until the next Monday.

I also want to say some softwares I want to use.

google calendar, I wonder why google do not create this. If I had this, I can synchronous with the web and google can save a lot of message expenses. The software of stock and timebargain, charge is ok, i need the common one, which will not as expensive as PDA or TOPVIEW, whose fee for a year is more than 10 thousand.

One thing more, i use Dopod575, which was bought on taobao.

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Ten Clever Furniture Designs from Recycled Materials

Elanso — Thu, 29 May 2008 06:00:51 GMT

We all have seen quirky one-off sculptures made from recycled materials but it is a decent bet that most designers don’t think about the possibilities of creating lines of recycled furniture. With so many materials going to waste in droves it seems a shame not to think big about how to give these a new life. While many of these are still mostly conceptual a lot of them have potential beyond being whimsical one-time creations.

Aluminum shavings sound like something that might be easy to recycle but they aren’t. In fact they are normally dumped into landfills though one designer has decided to turn them into quite classy-looking nicely-colored counter-tops. Now you could pay more for a granite counter-top or have something that both looks equally interesting/variegated and makes a great conversation piece.

Newspapers can be a very tricky thing to reuse without recycling but one student designer has figured out away to work around their weaknesses and play on their strengths. The strength and the natural ‘give’ of the newspapers provides a solid-but-soft underlying structure to this otherwise sturdy chair.

Whether these recycled spoon creations are tacky or clever is up to you to decide. They certainly are more variegated and playful than some of the other simpler designs shown here. Judging from her dress and decor however they are a perfect fit to the designer’s own style.

Old tires are probably some of the most prevalent not-easily-recyclables on the planet. The above solution is really quite simple and small-scale enough that not a lot of reworking of the tires is necessary to create these comfortable little chairs.

One has to wonder if these old whiskey barrel parts used to create various pieces of furniture have a lingering odor (pleasant or otherwise) from their days of aging alcoholic beverages. Regardless, though, they do have a rough-and-ready character from their slightly uneven shapes that gives a natural variety to the resulting designs that somehow makes them feel more comfortable, aged and homey.

It sure takes a lot of drinking straws to make a single piece of furniture but if the material is difficult to do anything else with then why not, really? It’s hard to imagine this wouldn’t crush under pressure but perhaps the sheer number is enough to make it stable while the void spaces make it comfortable.

In clockwise order shown above are various more great examples of recycled urban furniture: a light made from broken light tubes, a lamp made from an old iron, a chair from a shopping cart and a table from bent bike tires. If you have any additional ideas for ordinary trash you could turn into interesting recycled furniture you can add them in the comments below.

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