Mac Ad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRAUlK8_2VE

Give up on Vista!!!
I already did =p

For Singaporean Friends: Upgrade your Passport to Biometric one before your frequent International traveling

Thanks to Ray's kind reminder email to me, I not even a PR to Singapore yet.
Just would like to share this with all my friends, in case they are in so much traveling and overlooked at their passport status.
I experienced so much about my old passport (expiration).

Read this article carefully to avoid any potential problem you might encounter.
You guys are so lucky... take good advantage of it. =)

Sharing rocks: SlideShare.net

Just heard about it ...
check it out... it has lots of cool stuff.
hope you can make good use of it...
remember to cite them yah!!!

Appreciate their work!
http://www.slideshare.net/

Update: found a cool presentation there.

Cool: Singapore Media Development Authority Senior Management Rap Song

Check it out...
the Senior Management at Singapore Media Development Authority (MDA) made a Rap song for MDA.
and the song got to TechCrunch posted by Michael Arrington.(article)
Michale, when you come to visit Singapore, you've gotta meet up with the NUS NOC students...
in fact, they are in SF bay area... =p
Find them at www.nusea.org

alright... here is the video

Firefox 3.0 Beta

after the serious bug filed...
now you can try the new Firefox browser.

Get your version here (20 Languages).

Interesting: VideoDNA

Doesn't this make sense to you?

Brilliant!

VideoDNA... the DNA for video contents...

I like "is" sometimes

Jarod shared this link from Mashable on Facebook removing "is" from the status update.

The immediate thought was "okay, sounds good". However, the more I thought about it... I seemed to like the presence of "is" there. Why not?

it does not bother me at all. Most of people (if not, all people) seldom leave the I-centric world... It would be good that sometimes you can leave the center and visit the orbits and see their angel and perspective about the 'center'. Maybe you can position yourself better after the visits. =)

David is learning Korean again!

Luv Meebo

What's new on Meebo???

Video chat with 5 other friends simultaneously.
So including you, that's SIX people... Only on Meebo powered by TokBox...

WOW... isn't that amazing? cool? hippie?

What's more exciting is that you don't have to install ANYTHING! Yup... nothing! =)

Love Meebo!!!



Article at TechCrunch! (picture linked from TechCrunch)

Hockey Stick for Plaxo

Analytics rock!!!

Look at what it brings to Plaxo... a nice hocky stick... (image from TechCrunch Article on Plaxo)

Hooray to OpenSocial!!!
Good for plaxo...
maybe that why I received more plaxo friends requests more lately. =)

The trend of Hardware is coming again

Maybe in the most of the world (except Japan and Korea), there is coming this hardware revolution again.... many companies not in the hardware business, started releasing their hardware device...
Apple is in the hardware business... so iPhone shall not be discussed... but it is definitely a market expansion from personal computing to mobile computing...

Amazon just released its device.. Kindle.
What is it about? An electronic book reader.

Since I mentioned about Apple just now. I like Erik's way of putting it

The Kindle is essentially an iPod for books, with Amazon’s online book store taking on the role of iTunes.

Rumors about Google going to have its GPhone was already cooled down. Nonetheless, Google is working on the open mobile OS and platform right now...

A lot of other companies working in the IT industries are also looking at bundle their solution with hardware stuff. (heard a lot but not examples right now)

Here is one more.... Bug Labs allowing engineers to create any digital device their minds drive them to, by playing simply around some different modules... (article at TechCrunch) there is a video there. do Check it out. =)

so... maybe with all these cool stuff coming along, the REST of the world will catch up with Japan soon... Perhaps, we are overtaking right now... slowly...

Be ware of iPhone

Has iPhone become a personal tracker already?

I remembered that when I visited Logitech, we learned that Logitech learns the customer's mouse using behaviors via a tracking software which seeks the user's agreement. Thus, they can better design the mouse and come out with new buttons or cool features for mouses using real data collected. That was permitted by the users.

However, iPhone seems did not ask for it directly... Has anybody read iPhone's terms and conditions very thoroughly? maybe it's stated there.

Put the privacy issues aside, the technology behind the tracking part works really smart... that's great...

check out on the post at TechCruch!

Interesting: $85 M from Facebook to Acquire Zhanzuo.com

It's the first time I heard of Zhanzuo.com (Chinese) ever.
It has 7 million users on the sites, excluding overseas Chinese, because they only have the university in the Chinese territory. (why?) More about this news at TechCrunch.

Facebook became interested in this company right now and has made an offer of $85 Million for acquisition.

Even though xiaonei.com has been bought by one of the Chinese company, why they are not interested in showing interests in that? Is it because that they don't believe the xiaonei.com people are talented enough to create their own product but rather copying from them? They did a fair job in the so-called duplication. It also learned some good ideas and made them integrated to the sites. Now a lot of my friends in NUS are using it, esp my CHN friends.

Maybe Zhanzuo looks more innovative because it revealed a very typical university life phenomenon which is reserving seats. "Zhan" means "take it and make it someone's own prossession". "Zuo" means "seats". Thus, Zhanzuo means reserving seats on the first come first serve base, not only for themselves but also their gang. Zhanzuo typically happens at libraries, study rooms and any other public study areas in the universities throughout the country. Some also carried this 'tradition' to Singapore. (there was a Youtube video about the Zhanzuo situation at NTU. )It seemed the uni students are very hard working. A lot are!

Let us see what would come out in this story...

Maybe Facebook is looking at something different than what has been talked about. 7 M Chinese is not a big number in China. =p hmm... worth looking into it...

Updated:
I found the Youtube Video: Hungry Ghost Festival in NTU
& 1st person view Hungry Ghost Festival in NTU
It looked like the busy Beijing Subway interchanges in the rush hours.

Updates:

It seemed that it's a rumor, after all. See what Nick O'Neil said about it. 

For Singles: WooMe

check it out!
http://www.woome.com/

Web 2.0: How about IT Management

Good thoughts on it!
Not so much for consumers... but it looks cool.
Does it concern any privacy issues?
not sure.
IT management gets into 2.0.

security, security & security

so much about security!

Cool: Facebook on Blackberry

This ad popped up and I clicked on it.
It looks really interesting.

Blackberry now bundles Facebook.
Does that mean Facebook has its own hardware distribution channel partners... =p

Nice! I like both companies! That is more key. =)

Check it out here.

OMG! Mozilla Firefox Bug - Serious

Flaw found in Feburary, but ignored until it was deployed in Gmail Hack.

GOSH!!!

More!

So Can I ! =p

This is one of the link on the Google AdSense on this blog!
Entrepreneurship Development Program @ MIT

wow... for a week's course on Entrepreneurship it costs about $7,500.
If the tuition fees are considered as an entrance ticket to enter the entrepreneurship world, the door to the entrepreneurship world might seem to heavy to be pushed open!

I believe with MIT's strong name and strong faculty in this program. it is great that students in this program can learn as much as they can! However, it is just in one WEEK!
I spent a year in Silicon Valley in learning about entrepreneurship! it was live experiences. I have seen a lot of things happening around! Boston is definitely another great area to immerse into it and learn. What's truly inspiring is that I started thinking about "SO CAN I" approach! I can start my small classes teaching entrepreneurship? or rather set up a class to attend all this entrepreneurship program!

yes... indeed i am planning it already. It's the OCEAN. it is a great entrepreneurial journey that I am embarking on. What I really need to work on right now is to have its inaugural session in Beijing! Really looking forward to it! Fantastic!

Disclaimer: I am not saying the MIT program is not great! I think it is indeed very cool! Such programs are showing the attentions people are giving to the entrepreneurial people or people who want to become entrepreneurial. Just that my personal preference on this kind of education is through immersion to the entrepreneurship world. Of courses, not everyone can afford to spend much time on it. Nonetheless, think about it, if you really want to get involved, TIME is never an issue, because you will spend the rest of your life working on it. Yes, at least I am!

OpenSocial, Ops! Here comes OpenSocket

Thanks to Woonzai's sharing on Facebook, here is something really interesting.
Maybe you have heard of tons of news about Google and its 'new' initiative on the social networking sites- yes, it's OpenSocial. It creates a standard for APIs to be universally applicable on many social networking sites, like Ning, Friendster, Hi-5 etc.
Strangely this was announced after Google's unsuccessful bite on the Facebook pie. I have no idea whether it was a defense or an attack move. Anyway, the story about OpenSocial can be GOOGLED and a lot of stories will pop up. What was interesting was that Facebook was not part of the OpenSocial gang. If this is the first time you heard of OpenSocial and you know Facebook pretty well, you might think "why is not Facebook part of it?"

I don't know! There must be stories behind. Hope these stories will be revealed soon!

Nonetheless, what's more interesting here is that OpenSocket is trying to pull OpenSocial in facebook. What they say: it allows you to run OpenSocial gadgets within Facebook!

That was brilliant!

Since OpenSocial is open to all... Facebook can definitely make full use of the great 'platform' and add values to its users on its own platform!

My friend said OpenSocial might backfire itself. In my opinion, if the true intention of OpenSocial was to show colors to FB, then it can be considered backfiring. Or it might possibly reveal the true intention of Google in getting a bite on the FB pie. Yes, right now Facebook is working on OpenSocket to let its users involved in the OpenSocial. In other words, in the Chinese way of thinking: when I made an offer and treated you nicely, you did not appreciate and grab the opportunity. Now I have to show you some colors and let you come to me and 'beg' for it (whatever in the context). that was also a brilliant strategy play!

really cool stuff!
For more information on OpenSoket. You can go to this LINK!

the advent of the NEW Web

It is really interesting to see more Web 3.0 stuff on the web.
Here is a good article about it.
" the advent of web 3.0"

it says that the transition from web 2.0 to web 3.0 is a much shorter one than the transition from web 1.0 to web 2.0.

I guess.. it is so. Web 1.0 concept only came out after web 2.0 was defined.
As more and more people working on Web 2.0 start-ups, the days of Web 3.0 is definitely not far from now. It is definitely much quicker.

Looking forward to the great innovation! I'll work on my own. =)
Get the OCEAN jump started ASAP =)

The OCEAN

I am thinking of a proper name for OCEAN...

I had the Oriental Cape of Entrepreneurs & Altruists Network.
It did not sounds really great when we talk about it... it sounded like a venue or place... not an organization... however, it is definitely cool... specially it involves culture in it... "oriental"

the Organization of Chinese Entrepreneurs, Altruists & Netizens

netizen sounds too broad here... even though today's definition is still pretty narrow..
or
the Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs & Altruists Network (best fit one)
a little like OCBC (Overseas Chinese Bank Corp.)
or
the Open-minded Chinese Entrepreneurs & Altruists Network (start liking it)


let us set it as the last one...
the Chinese name for the organization would be "Entrepreneurial OCEAN" -创业海洋.

I think let me just set it for now...

OCEAN Mission:

The OCEAN was established in Nov 2007 as a non-profit organization with the mission of creating, facilitating and connecting outstanding young entrepreneurs through idea exchange, open discussion, mentorship and networking to better entrepreneurs' mentality, skills and network, empowering them to compete in the global economy.

Objectives:

1. To encourage the entrepreneurial spirit among the open-minded Chinese.
2. To build a strong entrepreneurs & altruists network in Beijing, China and the Globe.
3. To foster mentorship program
4. To expand the Chinese entrepreneurs community adopting globally competitive practices.

Intelligent Nation & Digital City

Have you heard of these two terms?

The first one is from Singapore where the Info-comm Development Authority, a government agency is leading the Intelligent Nation 2015 10-year master-plan.

So you can expect lots of things to happen right now and in the next few years!
It is also a great time to enter the Singaporean market as the entry to the Asian market.
For more information, you can Google "Intelligent Nation 2015".

The other term Digital City is for Shanghai. They have a plan to make Shanghai a digital city by 2010. There was an article about this in 2003 already but I only heard of it the week before. It seemed that I was not so much into this area yet... Yup. I just got myself settled down in Singapore back in 2003. There are some good pieces of information on it, but it is not as direct as the one above. so i need to filter it a little bit for you hope it helps.

2003 China Daily article
A PDF file on ShanghaiGrid in Action

If you happen to come across better links, please let me know about it.

Media:opporutnities in virtual worlds

I was reading about CNN entered Second Life.

Now I have an idea about the media bodies in the virtual worlds. Someone ought to set up some media bodies for the in-world news and events.

They will be the virtual worlds official representatives on media.

That sounds really cool!

They can have newspaper, magazine, advertising in there and all sorts of stuff!

cool... should work on it, shouldn't I?

Rainmakers Live: Framing the Video Effect - Money & Market Trends

Hi Friends,

Our organization is organizing a great event this Friday Nov 16, 2007, 6pm-9pm (San Francisco Time, PDT) at Fenwick & West LLP, Mountain View.

We have very good speakers.

Hunter Walk, Youtube (Keynote)
Gokul Rajaram, Google (Panelist, NUSEA Mentor)
Atul Suklikar, Yahoo! Video (Panelist)
Kris Harikrishnan, Moowee, Inc (Panelist, NUSEA affiliated company)
Scott Lane, SF Bay Ventures (Panel Moderator, NUSEA Friend)

Come and join us for the great session!
For more information, please visit Rainmakers Live website.

Is this the best time for Native Chinese to tour around USA?

currency rate
1 USD = 7.44 RMB

Airfare
1000 USD = 7,440 RMB

Hotel + Food(a week)
800 USD = 5,952 RMB

Shopping ( You can buy so much more good stuff there)
2000 USD= 14,880 RMB

Entrance fees (depending on where you want to go)
500 USD = 3,720 RMB

Others (including visa and tips =p)
500 USD = 3,720 RMB

total:
35,712 RMB

A lot of people can definitely afford it already in China.

if you want to drive around and do a cross-country tour like I did with Derek.
It's even cheaper.

Airfare
1000 USD = 7,440 RMB

Car Rental (San Francisco) including insurance and stuff
900 USD = 6,696 RMB

Food (on the way)
400 USD = 2,976 RMB

Touring around
200 USD = 1,488 RMB

Shopping
2000 USD = 14,880 RMB

Total:
4,500 USD = 33,480 RMB
where you can see so much about USA.

Of course, on the other hand, you can enjoy touring around China, too.

Has social networking become a feature?

Having been away from my office desk, I did not manage to listen to my favorite online music radio station - Pandora.

Now they have introduced new stuff on the site! Really cool!
One of them is the social piece - Friends. You can view your friends stations and check out their interested music and songs.



Has social networking became a feature of Web 2.0 experience?
Nowadays, every website has a blog as part of their official appearance to the public. Blogging is already part of a feature on a typical internet company.

Digg.com has upgraded to its new Digg look a couple months back. They added the social piece. It totaly made sense. Some comments on that move were wondering whether digg was moving to the social networking direction. Nope... not so much on that... it is just a convenient way to knowing what's going on there especially about what your friends are reading and digging.

Have this social piece appeared in many other sites as well?
Gmail integrated with Gtalk such that you can talk to your friends while emailing if the conversation seems to be fired. AND you can read your friends status. Maybe you might want to have a quick chat on it as well...

Definitely there are more: Flickr, Picasa, etc.

Am I right-brained or left-brained or both?

Is this girl turning herself closewise or counter-clockwise?

Here you go! Just for fun!!!

THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.

Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking

More Gmail Beta for me

This came in as a surprise of the day.
My most used Google account was upgraded to the new beta version!
so cool.

I like the "filter messages like this these" a lot because I used labels and filters so much that it reduced a lot of pain points in using these two!

Thanks!

"Is the Web 2.0 leading to a new sense of collectiveness in China?"

I managed to attend the last session of Web 2.0 in China: What's Next in China? by OrangeLabs. Due to my meeting and work on Monday and Tuesday, I could not make it for most of the sessions prior to 51.com's presentation on the topic of "The Typical China Web 2.0 User".

When I arrived, it seemed it just reached the hype of the afternoon sessions as there were so many people attending. It really looked great. Because of the tons of work I finished previously plus the heated venue, foggy weather and dim lighting, it seemed to me a perfect place to fall asleep. However, the interesting topics kept me awake, which was good.

I think the last session, a panel discussion about "Is the Web 2.0 leading to a new sense of collectiveness in China?" was pretty interesting. Although "collectiveness" seemed too broad a word there to discuss in a one-hour panel with 9 panelist, there are still a lot more to think about and talk about. It was just the beginning to look into the concept of changing collectiveness.

Moderator asked about the audience and speakers about their answers to this question:
so about 26 people agreed with the change, 13 disagreed and another few made a point of no conclusion on Yes or No.

Guess what? I was in the disagreed group. Here is my thinking and reasoning.
1. Collectiveness is such a broad topic. Collectiveness means " done by people acting as a group". Thus, it is pretty much an emphasis on 'collaboration'.
It is different from 'collectivism' meaning the practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it. Chinese society is lead by the socialists and their party. Collectivism is definitely the value and principle in managing the society.
Some speakers did mentioned about collectivism v.s. individualism. China is a society that skipped the capitalistic societal structure and jumped to the more futuristic societal structure (in comparison to capitalism where a more individualistic society is common). [Of course this understanding is based on some societal progression theory. ] Let us put the theory aside and look at the collectiveness.

2. Looking at the context: we are talking about the collectiveness in China. What's so special about China? A oriental society with 5000+ years of history, distinct culture, a tough language, a mysterious country to many in the world, a rising dragon in the east, 3rd largest country by landscape in the world, 1/4 of the world population.... ya da ya da ya da ya...
In my view, oriental societies are more collective than western societies. Japan is a very good example that you might want to look into. There are many studies compared the cultural differences among various societies. The stronger collectiveness in oriental societies is a general impression made from those studies.


3. Referencing
Right now, the Web 2.0 is so hyped up in the western societies especially North America and Europe. Has it changed the collectiveness in their society? Maybe not. They bettered the existing offline practices by utilizing the advanced web technology to actualize something can never happen in a WWW-less world. That is removal of the sense of physical constraints, like space, location, surroundings etc. That's the empowerment of the Internet. So, how did Web 2.0 contribute to the betterment of the collaboration? I think it is through organizing information, filtering information and distributing information in a quicker, nicer and more accurate way.

4. Draw conclusion from reference?
so... Web 2.0 is going to do the same thing for the Chinese society for sure - so much to do with information. If allowing me to say that's the nature of the Web 2.0 (better organizing), the people, the content, the channels are just so different!
If we were to just make a exact copy of MySpace, Facebook etc, would it work just as it worked as the original copy of MySpace and Facebook? NO!!! It is a No-No. There are a lot of premises, assumptions and constraints we have to discover and start looking into them, because these made the Chinese version of Facebook distinct even though it is still Facebook (facing the Chines audience). Just sidetrack a little here, who understand the Chinese Internet users? References are good but they cannot help draw any conclusion in such context.

5. How I looked at it?
I made a short comment at the end of the panel discussion.
I said, the web 1.0 maybe a realizing process for us to get to know the power of the Internet. It was the milestone of human beings in understanding the new stuff.
Thus web 2.0 might be the defining stage after we have understood the power. We need to find out what we can do on the web. Thus, in answering the question maybe what Web 2.0 led in the end was a better and clearer definition of collectiveness among the mass Internet users.
what I did not say was the continuation of the definition. It is then the so-called Web 3.0 stuff which we will figure out how eventually the Internet is best utilized in various aspects and domains in the world.

Food (questions) for thought:
1. what are the Chinese natives doing on the web?
2. what are the real niche markets in China which might not exist in other parts of the world?
3. Is the Internet utilization high enough to generate more and more revenue in considering the top internet connection infrastructure?
4. what works here and what does not work
5. what are the great business models that tailored for the Chinese Market?

Will this help Google in China?

Try the new design!

Facebook: more and more

1. Some GUI change in Facebook
I think the search has changed. I was using it a few hours ago and it did not look like this!
I think this is so much better to change the network search in to network filter! Sweet!

2. My Uni is offering Facebook Programming language course starting next semester!
This is definitely an absolutely cool stuff to do right after Stanford started its Facebook course this quarter! Yup, NUS rocks! I do enjoy my experience there. Also many thanks to some friends who worked behind it as catalyst.

3. Facebook brand advertising and music artists.
The picture below is the band 50 cent page on Facebook. Now companies can create their brand page on Facebook for advertising and form online brand awareness and demand generation.
In a similar manner, now Facebook Music allows music artists and bands to set up their own "brand" page and their fans can join and participate. Other than, iLike the likely directly competitor of Facebook Music (nothing similar to Yahoo! Music, except that the goal for music artists to attract their fans and bring up their album sales.)

Don't just look at what they are doing here. Meebo is doing great and generated lots of buzz in the entertainment world as well. You can Google it! Don't forget to Facebook often! =)

By the way, is Digg doing music digg? Would not that be so cool to have? Just an idea... maybe there are too many players in the music industry and the market seems saturated. My view is that if the market is saturated, it is a great opportunity to make a huge impact with disruptive technology & business model. The market is revived then.

Gmail 2.0: I am in the 1%

My friends have started talking about Gmail 2.0 A LOT.

I posted an entry a few days back about it. I really wanted to try the new things. I was a little bit jealous about some of my friends got into the claimed 1% beta users.
I admit that I do have a few accounts. 4 actually to prepare for the soon-finished space for my most used account. Another reason why I set up more than one account was to take the account name as early as possible before Gmail becomes a mainstream product like hotmail or live mail... Up till today, I just use my hotmail/live mail occasionally even though they offered 5 GB space for users.

Now, let us come back to the topic of Gmail 2.0 beta. 2 out of my 4 accounts are in the 1%. I feel that I am lucky enough to reach the 50% chance of getting into the selected 1%. However, I also started pondering how huge is the 1% base? 1 Billion? or 50 Billion? if that number is really huge, then being in the top seemed more likely to happen to the frequent users like us (my friends and me). On the other hand, being in the 1% seemed really exciting and it makes people feel good. I am really sure if the 1% is accurate or it was just a PR tactics to generate some buzz about Gmail again...

The contacts looks really cool. Much better than the text based organization of the Gmail product. The Version 2.0 looks cleaner ( ... ).

By the way, if you use Safari to check your Gmail, you might always get looped out even though you are in the 1% beta users. I tried my account that granted the new version on Safari and it did not work as it works on Firefox on Mac. By the way, I started using Mac since the last day of July this year. This entry was posted via Firefox on my MacBook Pro. I really like it. =)

Alright. Let me take some screen shots of the Gmail 2.0! =)




It is not too far from you already... at least close enough!

In addition, the storage is growth rate has been doubled and now you have more storage... I was concerned about my Gmail storage and my Picasa storage (purchased). Now the storage all upgraded, that's really cool. It was $20 for 6 GB last year. Now it is $20 for 10GB. I guess next year the storage might go up to 25 GB for the same price. The hardware technology is just getting better and cheaper. I think Google has already made tons of money on such small storage business. All the best! I still like Picasa better than Flickr =)

Have a fantastic day! Nov 6 (11-6) 1 sounds like 'want to', 'have', 'get'; "6" means smoothness and ease... hope everything goes well!

Web 3.0: first public product/solution?

As I mentioned in the previous post about Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 stuff, the Web 2.0 wave is just passing through or maybe it is still coming along the way. Web 3.0 has started it blossoming for preparing its own wave.

Twine by Radar Networks is claimed to be the first Web 3.0 product/application/service online. Let us see once I am given an account and test it out.

They participated in the Web 2.0 Summit which was a by-invitation only conference held in San Francisco. They did their first public demo showcasing their innovation and sharing their vision for the Web 3.0 era.

Follow-up: Google & its OpenSocial

1. Stanford class on Facebook apps
class to learn and build facebook apps
2. Facebook: " We have not been briefed on OpenSocial"
what is the truth, after all the smoke? - not clear

CleanTech: Beijing Forum

As CleanTech has become the hot topic in Silicon Valley, it started seeking attention from people all over the world and disseminating its message and belief that the world can become a better place if we do something about it.

China, the third largest country in the world in terms of its landscape and the most (man)powerful country on the earth. China is actively participating in the area of CleanTech. CleanTech Nework founded in 2002 with the mission of "To provide insight, business opportunities and relationships that catalyze the growth of cleantech markets" is organizing a CleanTech gathering in Beijing.

This CleanTech conference will be held in Beijing on December 3&4, 2007 - Beijing Forum. It's going to be held at Westin Beijing Financial Street with the focus on " China - Creating a CleanTech Superpower". Isn't the theme sounding very appealing you any passionate cleantech followers?

Here is a re-print of the brief introduction.

Vast markets for cleantech solutions are being created by China’s huge energy, water and related natural resource challenges. The Middle Kingdom is also becoming a major source of cleantech innovation for export. Be it as a customer, partner or innovator, China is a key actor on the global cleantech stage, with a strategic role in carbon markets. This inaugural China Cleantech Forum will enable top investors, innovators and influencers to build relationships and identify opportunities for profitably integrating China into the world.

for more information please visit: www.cleantech.com

I have already applied for voluntary position to the event. Hope there is good news of it.

Google and its OpenSocial

Facebook platform is great...
but other social sites are not dying... they are surviving and doing pretty well. Though serious and professional social networking users are getting on to Facebook, it seemed that it's primarily knowledge workers' world. What happened to the other people who do not fall into this knowledge worker category. They should and definitely can enjoy their social networking experiences with the rest of the hot social networking sites.

Google and its new initiative towards the OpenSocial API standard is a great move... Personally I think. Even though Facebook has become one of the site that I have to visit every single time I am online. So does Google. There are many partners working with Google this time. This seems that it's going to brilliant strategy for Google to tackle this hot spot on the Internet.

It falls closely with it's mission statement as well to organize the world information. It's right... it helps people to organize some information around their socialgraph!

Looking forward to some cool stuff coming up!
As long as I do not need to register more account, I'm going to test it out!

You might find millions of articles on this topic... I still recommend this one by TechCrunch: Google Opensocial to Launch Thursday.

Google Stock passed USD 700 going toward $800

This is just astonishing...
Google is doing extremely well while many might have shifting their attention to other companies... OMG!

Techcrunch article: Google's share price !

Mac Virus: Trojan horses - Scary?

a friend shared this worrying message that "Mac OS can be hacked by viruses as well"...
I was thinking? Is it really going to affect me? I am not even bothered by the Windows OS viruses... it sounded really interesting to find out about it.

Here goes the article: Trojan Horse targets Mac OS X
It sounded that the virus in Mac is so intelligent to trick the users. Does that mean the viruses are categorized in classes already. This is sort of high-end/class virus. so interesting!

However, this is another piece to respond to that article in its own way:
Why should you be concerned about the virus? It tells you how likely you can get infected. +)
It's about Mac OS X viruses and Trojan horse.

Back to the virus topic, it all started with pornography sites. If you can just control your appetite on the website a little bit while surfing the net. I guess you are not going to get even close to infection!
Take care!