Facebook Chat History

Gosh.. it was really crazy... I came to Hong Kong last night and I was searching free WiFi spot during the entire journey from Lo Wu to Sheung Wan. How does this relate to Facebook chat history?

my friend left me his phone number while we were chatting on Facebook chat. Habitually, I just did not take down the number or save it to my phone right away. I thought I could retrieve it easily 'cause it's online and on FACEBOOK. However, the reality proved me wrong. I was unable to retrieve the number fro the chat history at all, simply because I just could not look at the chat history. I speculated that it was because facebook chat requires both chatting parties to be online to allow checking chat history. Unfortunately, my friend is a working professional and the daytime is not good for facebooking, so I was not even able to find him via the search bar there... this can be really frustrating... i know Meebo.com allows us to have facebook chat via their service.... hmm... now i'm considering switching to meebo.com for facebook chat...

chat is important... but it is not about the convenience of simply chatting... I guess, more to me, the content of the chat values more than the action itself.

Facebook chat please get smarter...

Most expensive Taxi fare in China - Shenzhen

Guess I must have not traveled enough to discover this, until my friend here in Shenzhen told me about it.
The starting fare is RMB 12.50, and every 1 km is RMB 2.4...
after 11pm the starting fare goes up to RMB 16.10 and every km costs RMB 3.10 (requires double-check)
I chatted with the taxi driver during the journey...
he said there are not as many as passengers and he could feel it but it is not that bad, so I guess Shenzhen is surviving quite okay in the economic downturn. I usually talk to taxi drivers to find out how economy is doing in their perspective because they are the grass root people who are very sensitive to the economy changes, not in the sense they can predict but rather, they can be really impacted very early.
there are about 10,000 taxis in the economic zone and there are about another 7-8k in the suburban area, and there are another 2000 "black taxis". these numbers total up to 20,000 cabs in the Shenzhen metropolitan area.

a little bit background about the taxi driver that i talked to. He's quie young. i guess he's about 24 years od, which might not give him a decent years of experience driving in Shenzhen. A decent years I meant about 10 years or so. Althought he's very professional and he knows the area really well but that experience I'm talking about is the number of customers and the change of shenzhen in the past 10 years. He also told me that there used to be another 20% surcharge after mid-night, which can definitely beat the taxi drivers both in Singapore and Hong Kong. Luckily, it already canceled, or I would perhaps pay Rmb 100 for a good 13 km journey.

well... i have not been to the city yet, will check that out soon!
as far as my to-do list concerned, quite a number of them are cleared, which makes this trip very relaxing and easy. cool! thanks to taobao.com!

China's Censorship @ xiaonei.com

Xiaonei.com, the Chinese copy of Facebook.com, is currently undergoing the censorship inspection by the Chinese government...
The censorship is targeted are the Group application!
as increasing number of college students have registered and entered xiaonei.com. xiaonei.com has become an ever open platform for college students to interact and exchange. I'm a xiaonei user myself and I can tell you the rate of information sharing is much much more higher than what I experienced on facebook, despite that i have only 1/5 number of friends on xiaonei.com.

i remember i received notice earlier than the date specified on the notice Jan 15 2009 about the censorship inspection was going to take place some time soon. now it is undergoing the inspection!

well.. i don't know how long it will take for the group to come back. let us see how efficient they are then! the information in the xiaonei.com group can be a few times more than the data in an encyclopidea. That's just a pure sense of how big the database can be that it is even made the chinese government to start looking into it.

Time really slips when we are online

4 hours have just passed...
i was working on something on the Internet.
Can we live without Internet? sure we can!
however, we are so used to having Internet around to solve our problems in life.
I connect friends there, search interesting and unfamiliar information, seek entertainment, work there etc.
there are a million and one things we can do with Internet. However there is one thing we cannot do to solve the problem is TIME PASSING. it seems that we have much less time now compared to the days we use less Internet and just seemingly did more meaningful stuff.

I simply did not feel so much time has passed by... then got me ponder... how could we make use my time more efficient online. I don't think I was wasting time just now as I was working on the cv to apply for on overseas internship as well as working on the linkedin group.

i've got a test on tuesday. Now it's time to get off the computer to look at some notes for revision.

Linkedin Groups

I created an alumni group on Linkedin last night and the response was quite good. We've gotta 23 members in the group already by the time of writing.

i'm exploring to make such group an official one, which means it has an official logo on the top right corner following the group name. I think that is very important so that we don't have duplicated groups on the network which makes people very confusing... in fact, i've combined one group already with brian. Thanks, man!

I found there are SO MANY groups on Linkedin now and a lot of them are very useful and meaningful. i requested to join a couple of them and I've got response almost in half an hour. People are really fast on Linkedin and hope this can be a very good platform for some of the alumni to network and communicate. If not it is a place where we can gather some of the latest update of what our alumni are working on. Isn't that exciting!

for more information, check out www.linkedin.com
What is Linkedin? it is a professional (social) network.

PASSIONATE about customers & products, Great Entrepreneurs are!

Was reading this and I do think great entrepreneurs out there are great because they wanted to become great entrepreneurs. I've met so many great ones and they are totally passionate about their customers & products...

You've gotta READ this:

Great Entrepreneurs are PASSIONATE about Customers & Products, NOT about being Great Entrepreneurs.

so when i say "PASSIONATE", what i really mean is PASSIONATE about SOLVING A PROBLEM, and PASSIONATE about BUILDING A GREAT PRODUCT or SOLUTION.

a few links appeared in this article by David McClure;
1. His very own startup experience
http://www.startupfailures.com/profile_davemcclure.html

2. demonstrating "-ve" example of DRIVING at HIGH SPEED for young drivers.
(some pictures might irritate you, please get yourself ready)
http://www.cafemom.com/journals/read.php?post_id=608177

3. Have you done your REALITY CHECK? (A book by Guy Kawasaki)
http://www.guykawasaki.com/books/reality-check.shtml


All the best!

Gmail with its new button

do you use Gmail?
have you realized it is new again?

yes...
the buttons are different now...
the labels now are out of the "more actions" button...
it is independent... cool!
I like it... but I'm very used to the old Hot-Key use "." to call " more actions" and select label from there...
Guess what's the hotkey for label button?
what do you thinK? i did not look it up. Instead, I just tried some key...
and the first one I tried was "l" and it worked...
that's very nice!

Thanks the Gmail 2.0 team!

Movies GO Online Advertising TOO - underworld

Things can get pretty interesting by looking at the ads displayed on your own blog... and yest... this is how I look at things here sometimes... reference... =)

yes... Take a look at the text ad displayed at the top position... it is the movie which is going to be released in Singapore on Feb 5th 2009 underworld...
I guess this is not done by the sony picture but the singapore counterpart which is responsible for marketing the movie... apparently, they decided to choose GOOGLE ADWORD... that's interesting... i think it would cost them much less than putting posters all over the streets of Singapore. or maybe, they did it because of the limited budget due to the worsened economy... well...i 'm just guessing here.. .nothing official... and yes... the ad links directly to the sony picture official website for underworld.

here is the link: http://www.entertheunderworld.com/

don't feel like going to the theater to watch all the movies as it makes singles feel awkward to visit the movie theater alone... in fact, i never cared that much... i remember I went to movies alone sometimes... you know... friends might not like all the movies in theater... but sometimes you do! haha...

looking forward to the summer movie season... lots of them coming soon!

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