Google Adsense Cheque

Guess what, I've received my Adsense payment from Google. :)

Facebook for China

How can you connect the whole world if you leave out 1.6 billion people?

- Mark Zuckerberg

Saw another friend commented about this - Zuckerberg's strategy for China.

Well, I think both Google and Facebook has the potential to go into China's market, unless China starts to improve on the censorship and website quality (in terms of originality and service coverage).

Just my random thought, because I realized that most of my China friends are using Google services, and Facebook more often compare to Baidu or 人人网 (ren ren wang).

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Just thought of some problems that I think most local sites faced.

Limited user domain... the problem

The reason why all the (local) sites, not only Chinese sites, fails in the long run is because their user/data domain is too limited, too localized in other words. With advancement of internet, people wants more info, from around the world.

And with the overloaded information, people just want as few entry points (search engine, or portal) as possible to get them to want they want. This comes to a point, which website should we remember? There are so many web addresses out there...

Some people, like me, choose to remember only the major sites, and combine/integrate other sites into it. For example

• Google - to link me to other sites with "i'm feeling lucky". 
• Gmail - to check all other inboxes (Hotmail and Yahoo... got forwarded there), and to video call (replacing msn, and skype)
• Twitter - to communicate with tech friends.
• Facebook - to stay in touch with common friends (who already abandoned Friendster, MySpace...) 

Local (small) sites couldn't provide better service... in the long run

Take Gothere.sg for example, not sure how long the site can survive. I find that the service is good, and accurate when it just started few years back. But now, often, I'll double check my result with Google Maps, and most of the times, Google Maps returns better results. Maybe because lack of technology and expertise to further improve on the site?

Another interesting fact to know is that, Youtube wasn't that popular back in 2006. Until Google acquired it and start to "globalize" it. Google sees Youtube as a potential source of advertising revenue; While Youtube sees  Google as the source for their expansion - leveraging on their server technology and global reach. The outcome - good user experience makes Youtube a better choice compared to other local "media entertainment" platform.

Conclusion?

This makes me think that, the only way a site (especially local site) can survive, is to evolve rapid enough and not to be held back by geographical-limited user domain, and most important - server technology. If you going to stay at where you are, most likely, your company will be engulfed by other big company.

The different Facebook-wannabe sites :)

#newTwitter layout issue in Chrome

Just realize this small problem with newTwitter layout in Chrome.

The scrollbar doesn't expand fully when you click on your list, which makes impossible to add people to the list item at the bottom of your list, or to click on the "create a list" button at the end.

hmm, look at the screenshot if you don't know what I meant by that :)

Problem in Chrome 6.0.472.63

Internet Explorer 9

Feet Pianist Liu Wei 【China's Got Talent】 - 【中国达人秀】 刘伟

我觉得我的人生中只有两条路：要么赶紧死，要么精彩地活着。没有人规定，钢琴一定要用手弹的。
I believe I have two ways to live my life: Either die quickly , or live to the fullest. There is no rule that says we must play piano with hands.

- 刘伟 Liu Wei

http://www.sinchew.com.my/node/179079?tid=2

刘伟在短短的四年学会了钢琴。如果不是失去了双手，可能就不会有今天的达人。
Liu Wei learned piano in just four years. If he didn't lose his hand, he might not be as talented as he is now.

很感人。
Very touching.

我觉得一个人只要能专注，很多不可能的事都能达成。
I think if we can really stay focus, we can achieve many task which we initially think is impossible.

最后，再送大家一句话。
Finally, another quote to all of you.

每个人都要为自己的梦想负责。希望大家可以坚持自己喜欢的事情。
可能有人说我做什么事情都不方便，但是我会告诉我自己：至少我还有一双完美的腿。
Everyone must be responsible for their own dreams. Hope everyone can be persistent in the things they are doing.
Maybe there are people who say that its very inconvenient for me to live my life, but I will tell myself: At least I still have a pair of beautiful legs.

- 刘伟 Liu Wei

Disconnect to Connect

People spent most of their time on the net, follow the happs in the virtual world. Often, the missed out things around them, those things that is physically close to them.

This reminds me on #Foound again... haha...