xiaonei releases its platform strategy

On July 8, Xiaonei will have a Strategy Press Conference at Kanpu (Wokers' Stadium South Gate).

Here is the link http://2008.xiaonei.com/xnApi.do (in Chinese)

The executives of Pacific Oak, CSDN and 3rd-party companies (partners, I assume) and application developers. Of course, media will be welcomed.

Xiaonei will talk about its platform development and strategy.

Stay tuned for more Chinese SNS platform. How much would  it be different from Facebook or Google connect.

I guess most of us have anticipated the event on July 8th, but what we were not sure was the timing.

Hope to hear from them on how the platform should be different in China.

looking forward to it. 

Chinese Angel Investors

I was searching for Chinese Angel Investors.
Then I cam cross the following names.

Min Zhu has won an award of "The most active Chinese Angel Investor".

Feng DENG
Jun LEI
Xiaosong LIU
Yongqiang QIAN
Ning YANG
Nanpeng SHEN
Xingsheng ZHANG
Hongyi ZHOU
Min ZHU

My Last Organizing BASE before heading for Singapore in July

Last night we had our 6th event of BASE networking session! It went great!

We did not have speakers nor presenters last night but we were not too concerned about it. It would be fantastic if we were to have some great people talking to us. However, once in a while, we might just want to sit and talk to each other instead of listening to others talking to a group of people. (do you agree?)

We went back to the format of the very first time when we started BASE in March. Everyone introduced themselves one by one... (to break the ice) we had a small rounds of "shout-outs". Frank introduced Adam Smith from Xobni.com. He was here for holidays and he should be on the plane to Japan right now. Wish a safe and pleasant journey to Adam. Wish I knew he was in town earlier.. I got a bit of time to bring him around I guess. He told us he had hard time getting round speaking no Chinese. Glad that he made it! Next time, drop us an email. We have tons of friends who can help you in many ways!

Jennifer sent her colleagues to BASE last time to talk about their business plan competition. It's a pretty good way for a Chinese startup to get some initial funding without going through the tough Angel and VC funding hunt. Well, it takes a lot of luck to meet the right angel or VC. For you information about the business plan competition, you can visit the website here.

Erik was here and he's working on his gaming startup right now and he got accepted into Tsinghua MBA program. Congratulations to him! He's looking for a CTO right now to work with him on his startup!

Abe has finally secured his researcher position in Tsinghua Medical School! that's great! Congratulations to you!

Gina, Long time no see! Glad that you are a journalists now at Beijing Today. It is an English newspaper! maybe you can find her news articles there!

Ralf's girl friend has left her IT company and she's having her first day at a marketing consulting firm. wow, it's so exciting for her. All the best!

Ralf would take over me to run the BASE event and please give him support! He wants to do something but he needs lots of guidance. Frank, Darius, Resh, David De, please give your support to him! thanks!

My business partner, Lao Bai joined us at the networking session there too! Unfortunately, he speaks no English and I was helping him translate a little bit. Glad that he could come and see how things are like in Beijing! There is absolutely no such networking in Wenzhou.

I was really busy running around and talking to people. The very first time at BASE, I forgot to take pictures there! What a pity! it would be a group of great pictures! maybe I should organize a farewell party session at the beginning of July (not the second Thursday of the month) but rather any day then!

cool! i'll do that!

Is Facebook down?

I was trying to access Facebook just now and came across this common error page.
I tried on both Safari 3 & Firefox 2, either worked.
wonder what's wrong with it?
is it my account or what?

Gmail Labs

check this out!
Gmail Labs

Lots of new features.
Seems it's really time to get an iPhone to get the complete Apple + Google experience!

the LinkedIn Presbyter (mascot?)

was trying to check out the linkedin invitation a friend sent to me.
but it shows the page below (they are upgrading the system right now.


at the first sight, it was just a notification. Then the linkedin man caught my attention.
it looks like someone. what do you think? any idea on your side?

I call it the Linkedin Presbyter, so much like Reid Hoffman, the founding CEO of linkedin.

Disagree with me? well, take a closer look. ^^

The Presbyter looks so approachable and caring.

BASE May 22nd Event Registration

Nation-wide Mourning for May 12 China Earthquake Including the monochromic Internet

May 19-21 are the three days of the national mourning for the victims who died on May 12 Wenchuan, Sichuan Earthquake. By now, the death toll has reached 34,073, reported by CCTV.

Besides, the people in China are mourning for the victims by not involving in any entertainment activities of any sort, wearing dark color dresses etc.. The Chinese internet seems synchronously followed the same monochromic look on their sites.

I've checked most of the frequently visited Chinese websites of mine. They all presented the similar monochrome color- the black & white theme to show their condolences and sympathy to the victims in the catastrophic earthquake took place on May 12 2:28pm (GMT +8) with its epicenter at Wenchuan, Eastern Sichuan, China.

Here are some examples.

Fake McDonald's Career page?

I was browsing my friends blog just now and saw there was an ad for McDonald's part time jobs.

It looks like this

[ad image]


I clicked on it... to see what it is about? I never worked in McD. don't think i am gonna work there. just out of curiosity, i clicked on it.

the following page showed up. It looks like it's from McD but... I just feel that it's might be a mock to collect info of thousands... who knows...

[page image]


I typed www.mcdonalds.com.sg ... that one works... i visited before, so there is no problem there.
checked the www.mcdonalds.com.sg/recruitment it showed something sensible...

then i clicked on "apply now"...
what is it about?

the same URL that the ad linked to http://mcdsg.workstarglobal.com/

Thus, the ad should be REAL then. Thank Goodness!

Gosh! Why cannot McD Sg just set up something on their site instead of rerouting to other URL that appears so not trusting.

well... maybe I am to suspicious about the real identity of a site an Google ad links to.

Can all Google Ads be trusted?

Churchill Club: Top 10 Tech trends debate

I think you might be wondering once in a while...

"What's new?"
"How the market is like in 1 year, 2 years, 5 years or even 10, 20, 30 years?"
"What's gonna make it big in the near future?"
"What are the hot spots in tech?"
...
etc.

Here is a list that you can think about and see whether they click with your thoughts.

my thoughts are:
1. mobile devices gonna be hot in the techie community
a. iPhone - applications, distribution channels, 3G and its related peripheral markets
b. phone OS - designed for techies and tech-savvy users to play around and customize their own phones... so which phone manufacturer will produce mobile phones that allows the geeks to crash their phone. Nokia?
c. mobile services... data plans (teleco), mobile widgets, mobile shopping... text messages in US

2. Clean Tech... alternative energy... this hype will never die off. I guess you will see some applicable alternative energy technology in the market in 2009 and 2010. lots of initiatives started in around 2006 and hope to see some results soon. at least pioneering initiatives.
Who's gonna lead? Technology will be the US but the practitioners will be China and European countries because of their strong government support and subsidies.

3. I feel strongly that there is gonna be some breakthrough in bio-tech in curing and treatment in 2009. maybe something for Aids will be in the market that cheap enough (relatively) for people to purchase.

4. enterprise 2.0 starting end of 2008 - 2010... it's gonna be huge... many enterprises are waking up from their hibernation after their first four season in the 1.0 world. Yes.. the spring is coming and it's time to wake up and get some fresh food.