The Android Disconnect in China
Posted at 28 May 2012
As you may understand, in China - where most of the Google services are disconnected, the Android ecosystem is not merely a mirror of its global situation.
With its market share approaching 70% by end of 2011 in China, (source), Android has penetrated the mainstream phone user group to be the new "street phone" of choice by many. Not only the device-makers and carriers are behind this push, many Internet companie...
The Super Mind
Posted at 01 May 2012
Recently, Steven Levy of Wired wrote about the technology that would change the journalism world drastically. A company called Narrative Science has decoded the science of composing news for sports games and management reporting.
It was a long piece. But the length didn't prevent me from reading it through in the middle of a nice dinner with friends. This technology really matters, as it replaced something that w...
匠心的价值
Posted at 20 Apr 2012
一直以来，行业认识了解果合的方式往往是通过我们的广告聚合产品。没错，这是我们为开发者提供的第一个产品。从最初的 1.0 版本到现在，已经过去了一年多的时间。期间，我们尝试了各种各样的功能，整合了更多的广告平台，这个小巧的工具是很多开发者进行广告盈利的首选。但是从去年年底开始，我们参加...
诚实（而勇敢）的面对故障时间
Posted at 11 Apr 2012
从最近的几个月看，果合的服务稳定性可以说非常糟糕。看看我们出现的服务当机、数据准确性、SDK 广告展示等问题，每一个都足以让开发者一气之下转向其它的服务。包括我在内，几乎每个果合用户支持团队的成员都在各种时间接到用户的电话。很多开发者非常熟悉的 Ron 同学，曾经在凌晨 2 点钟被开发者电话催...
Ordinary vs. Fast Track
Posted at 20 Mar 2012
It is an ordinary start-up day. A few partner presentations in the morning, plus tons of emails and internal discussions till almost 8pm, I feel too tired to enjoy the walk after the quick dinner with colleagues. It seems that I need some mental rest. However, email doesn't seem to stop feeding my inbox. The rest of world is just waking up and kicking off the day. Things are taking places now and then, shitfing my...
Disturbed
Posted at 18 Mar 2012
There are two content models available in general:
The content funded by advertisement, and
The content paid by its audience.
My full-time job is all about connecting the people willing to pay for the ads with the content creators / publishers, so people can easily afford the entertainment or enlightenment delivered in forms of texts, images, video or other interactive media. It is the massive I/O capturing p...
(How to) Keep Shipping
Posted at 23 Feb 2012
Keep Shipping 是前两天在公司内部的经验交流会上 Piggest 同学分享的。我当时心不在焉的错过了很多她的精彩解释，但是却对这个短语反应强烈。的确，没有什么比这两个字更加准确的表达科技创业公司在产品管理上应该恪守的信条。在交流会结束前，我语气强烈的讲道：
It is a shame that we cannot keep shipping and at the same ...
几个产品邮件提醒的例子
Posted at 30 Jan 2012
工具型的互联网产品，往往需要用户进行一定程度上的熟悉和学习才能掌握使用，从而帮助用户完成一些特定的工作任务。根据产品复杂程度的不同，通过电子邮件和用户沟通很重要。下面总结了一些最近看到的例子。
Trello 是一个最近经常被提到的项目管理工具，今天在简单试用之后，发现了这个产品在发送邮件...
全球化的困扰
Posted at 24 Jan 2012
还记得在读大学的时候，好像是写经济学原理教科书的曼昆教授出版过一本书，是说经济全球化对对很多第三世界国家造成了很多困扰。当时我是没有读这本书，也没有一个好的角度来看全球化这件事情。今天晚上在 Instapaper 上慢慢读了一篇纽约时报的文章：美国是怎么丢掉 iPhone 的工作的？，觉得好像现在我有一...
Github：社区胜于工具
Posted at 29 Nov 2011
这周在知乎上回答了这样一个问题：Github 是怎么火起来的？
Github 的创始人曾经在 Startup Open Sourced 这本书上提到他们是如何在一个 Ruby 的线下聚会遇到，所以他们非常重视线下的社区聚会活动。他们的 Github Drinkup 活动从湾区开始，后来变成用户自发组织，变成全球很多开发者聚集的城市都会搞的活动。这样的社区...