Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Daily Recap

Spent a few hours yesterday night to set up Almetl. It's harder to open an online store now than years ago since you have to get through some barriers set by Chinese governments before seeing your website up and running. Is it a sign that China is trying to increasingly regulate Internet? Hope it's not just an empty gesture.

China beat Iran last night by 1 - 0 to end a 14-year embarrassment of no victory over its Asian partner. China national football team has disappointed us in no less than one thousand cases, but from this match we see something different - a team full of passion and aggressiveness.

Car giant General Motors (GM) entered bankruptcy protection yesterday. Hope to see this iconic American company rise again someday in the future with the help of US government.

Learned a new word - mothball

vt. to defer indefinitely; shelve;
 n. a condition of long storage for possible future use.

1. "put the battleship into mothballs."
2. "decided to put the plan into mothballs."
3. "mothball a project."

Quoting president Obama: "I know you've already seen more than your fair share of hard times, I want you to know that what you're doing is making a sacrifice for the next generation - a sacrifice you may not have chose to make, but a sacrifice that you are nevertheless called to make so that your children and all of our children can grow up in an America that still makes things."

Decided to set aside some time to review Google trends, to better understand the new features it offers.

天下网 is currently the largest WAP SNS site in China, boasting over 40 millions users.

若邻网 is the Chinese counterpart of Linkedin.

Completed a research on Chinese WAP SNS sites and the report is now available as one of my Google Docs share files.

Damn it! Google Docs is not able to hold the format of any doc file. Uploaded a doc file to Google Docs today but it returned me a jumbled one.

Microsoft's new search engine - Bing (in Chinese, 必应), which evolved from its predecessor Live Search - has gone online. The launch of Bing is a strong indicator that the next search engine battle is officially on.

OMG, I'd found something new and completely weird! You can actually buy traffic for your 51.com, Xiaonei, QQ or even Sina blog on Taobao! Unbelievable! Am I too outdated on this?

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