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02/24/2005
Google released their new toolbar for IE and integrade a controversial feature called "AutoLink". If user switch it on it will turn street addresses into links to Google Maps, Book publishers' ISBN numbers trigger links to Amazon.com, among other things. After released, it was getting a lot of heat on the web.
Dave Winer had a article argued on this feature: Google's toolbar and content modification. He was thinking AutoLink may infract author's copyright and modified content with no authority.
All documents will have to contain a disclaimer that links contained within the page may not have been placed there by the author or organization whose copyright notice is on the page. Same is true for legal documents, end-user license agreements, rental agreements, etc.
Also here is a potential patant issues:
While Google pooh-poohed any comparison of its controversial AutoLink feature to Microsoft's SmartTag technology, Google's generation of dynamic links to maps and use of ISBN numbers to trigger links to booksellers cover the same territory as Microsoft's 2000 patent application for Providing electronic commerce actions based on semantically labeled strings, whose sole inventor - Jeff Reynar - was the lead SmartTag Program Manager while at MS and is reportedly now a Google Product Manager who's being credited as AutoLink's creator.
Where is the line for Google? Dave asked. Hopefully google will collect these reactions from the web and keep promising Larry Page's
Beta-Strategy.
Update: Jeffrey Zeldman note us How to block AutoLink in your page, Oops, If I need to install that much code on my server, Certainly I will either uninstall the toolbar or switch to Firefox.
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10/29/2004
ResumeWiki is a great idea, the project flows from Jeremy Wright of Ensight, which let you post your own resume on the community wiki and let other people give you comments or edit on it.
ResumeWiki is a community edited resume centre. You post your profile (goals, etc) and resume the community of peers will give you comments and possible edits. It is about harnessing the power of lots of eyes to help you get your job. It is kind of like Open Source’ing your resume. Less bugs, more potential, less work for the individual (you).
So far, I saw at least 10 resumes had uploaded to the wiki; each of them got comment from other people. You could track the change log to see detail modification on your resume, find out who gives you a comment. Imagine this like a collective intelligence from other people's experience to help you polish your resume; ultimately you may have a best resume for job apply.
Along with the wiki, there also include some great tips on resume writing, job search and other employment resources. Maybe you will see some job posting later. This is really excited wiki experiment on Job search area.
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10/13/2004
Just after I did my last post, I saw there is another article about Mary Meeker and The China Internet Report on Newsweek via Xiao's post on China digital News.
Meeker glossed over key issues like timing and Beijing politics, leaving a sense that she is more of an expert on the Internet than on China. That impression jumps out on page one of her own report, which cites warnings from two other Morgan Stanley
On Andrea's latest blog post:
Latest Talks On the Internet in China, Richard (who is the author of
The Pekingduck) made a insightful comment on that:
Mary Meeker was once known as "Queen of the Internet" during the dot-com boom and she was largely resposible for the huge and ridiculous forecasts for Internet stocks -- she was predicting, along with Henry Blodgett, outrageous prices for dot-coms like Amazon and Priceline, and she lost most (all?) of her credibility. Take what she says about the Internet with a HUGE grain of sea salt!
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10/10/2004
On Web 2.0 conference, Mary Meeker had 11 minutes talk about internet in China:
...that in 1850, China was 33% of the world's GDP. Today they are only back up to 4% but they are the fastest growing. 59 million Chinese Internet users 24 million Chinese broadband subscribers 15 million online gamers The economic picture is enormously different in China -- GDP per capita -- $619 China $37,000 for US [Quote via tedshelton]
Also see Jeremy's section notes:
Tons of data pointing at Internet services already big and growing in China. Interestingly, most are US companies (Yahoo, eBay, Google). 70% of Chinese users are younger than 30 years old. Wireless messaging is already big there--207 million phones. 200 billion messages in 2003. China needs help in eCommerce for many reasons. And China doesn't breed many great Internet companies yet. But there are folks there now who get it. Labor surplus in China. Mary thinks it's like the mid-1990s in the US was. This stuff will make life better in China ultimately.
Jason's blog had record mary's talk to a mp3 file. According to People's daily online article on August 2004, China's Internet users exceed 87 million. In the early time this year Morgan Stanley had released a China internet report which collect whole bunch of data analysis。I think some of Mary’s data comes from that report. On the other hand, according to our unofficial Chinese blogger counter, the existing blogger in China had exceed half million. Base on internal data from Blogdriver.com (one of most popular blog service in China), by the end of this month, the user of the service had exceed 100 thousand, and host more than 80 thousand individual blogs (some are multi-author blogs)..
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08/14/2004
Checking my Email this morning and I noticed that my hotmail account had been upgrade to 2GB of storage. A little surprise! My account is MSN plus account which cost $19.99 a year. After couple months of announcement, finally MSN launched their 2GB hotmail service to compete Google's 1GB Gmail service. Also the Hotmail support send/receive up to 20MB of attachments, which is two times of Gmails'.
I had tested Gmail for almost three months. Obviously, it was a really nice service with excllent accessibility and user experience. The only thing I was not satisfied is the service that didn't support any email client. Personally I'd like to manage my emails and documents with a client application like Outlook, Eudora which I could read and write my email offline. At this point, Hotmail is far more better than Gmail, although there have whole bunch of plug-ins to let user to manage and synchronize Gmail account, hotmail still the best one work with email Client. So I don't think I will totally change to use Gmail.
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Another Top 10 comes up! The 10 Dumbest Quotes of 2003 From About.
Let me quoted Hussein's Joke:
When U.S. interrogators asked Saddam Hussein how he was, he responded: "I am sad because my people are in bondage."
When offered a glass of water, he replied: "If I drink water I will have to go to the bathroom and how can I use the bathroom when my people are in bondage?"
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12/29/2003
Smart mobs wins the Online Cultural Coverage award. Award Link. All winner are very impressive site gives us most valuable information. Via BoingBoing
Here is overview of Winner Smart Mobs
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