Sunday, May 30, 2010
Video: At the Swedish pavilion
In his guided tour, we see all five "rooms" that will house the exhibition. As you will have noticed, the pavilion is not ready yet :-), but construction is proceeding rapidly, without major hiccups. Currently, air conditioning and sprinkler systems are being installed. Soon, when the walls are complete, the outside panelling will start being put into place. The installation of the exhibition will begin just after Chinese new year, in February. And on May 1, you'll be able to walk through these rooms just like Sven did.
The Swedish Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 in 上海
Interview with the yo-yo artist Rasmus Wurm
青岛音乐之帆小草合唱团
Dr. Hans Blix hates bombs but likes nuclear power. "Today the world is spending 1,400 billion dollars on the military expenditure. Could we do not better with that, in trying to save the planet?"
Bengt Frithiofsson tastes the red wine. By Tobias Andersson Åkerblom
Video: Day 3 of the 72 HOUR RACE TO INNOVATION
Video: Day 2 of the 72 HOUR RACE TO INNOVATION
Video:Day 1 of the 72 HOUR RACE TO INNOVATION
Video: The inauguration of Swedish pavilion
Video: Visit from the Swedish King to the Swedish national pavilion day
Video: Visit from the Swedish King to the Swedish national pavilion day
May 23 we celebrated the National Pavilion Day for Sweden, and we were honored to welcome His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf and the Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden, Ms Maud Olofsson as our distinguished guest on this very special day.
Fashion show at the Expo Center on National Pavilion Day
Fashion show at the Expo Center on National Pavilion Day
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Graffiti Analysis
Graffiti Analysis 2.0: Digital Blackbook from Evan Roth on Vimeo.
Graffiti Analysis (iPhone) - DustTag v1.0 from Evan Roth on Vimeo.
Graffiti Analysis 2.0: Digital Blackbook from Evan Roth on Vimeo.
Graffiti Analysis 2.0 Playback Screencast from Evan Roth on Vimeo.
Graffiti Analysis 2.0 Capture App Screencast from Evan Roth on Vimeo.
In new NASA photos, see Gulf of Mexico oil spill from space
The folks at NASA have assembled a series of time-lapse photos, over a 35-day period, of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Using images from its Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, tethered to its Aqua and Terra satellites that orbit the globe, the series shows the view from space of how the spill — which began on April 20, 2010 with the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig — has progressively gotten worse through May 24, 2010.
NASA says the oil slick appears grayish-beige in the images, and changes with the weather, ocean currents and use of oil dispersing chemicals.
Here’s a look:
The images only show oil at the surface — there’s plenty more beneath it.
蔡明介想撼動宏達電股王寶座聯發科下個戰場是智慧型手機？
聯發科在白牌手機市場的成功已有目共睹，而動輒要價新台幣一萬五千元的智慧型手機，成為聯發科下一個戰場，誰說聯發科不能再重返股王寶座？
二月十四日西洋情人節當天，傳出南韓ＬＧ，以及中國大陸手機廠ＴＣＬ、海信等３Ｇ手機晶片訂單下給聯發科的消息，受此激勵聯發科股價強勢反彈逾兩成，可見３Ｇ晶片對聯發科的意義不容小覷。除了３Ｇ晶片以外，聯發科還準備挑戰宏達電，切入智慧型手機市場，對王雪紅來說，這個情人節恐怕浪漫不起來。
手機業界人士表示，去年中成立的景泰通訊（二月十九日改名為景發科技，股本由二億元提高到四‧二億元），董事長林慧玲為前聯發科代理發言人，另一董事陳維漢則是聯發科前稽核主管，二者關係顯然非常密切；至於總經理張欣晴不僅是明基前手機部門主管陳盛穩的左右手，也是聯發科總經理謝清江在台大電機系的同班同學。
兩位同窗的合作默契是，聯發科朝智慧型手機晶片發展，景發則幫聯發科設計智慧型手機所需的軟體，二者整合成一套的智慧型手機turn key（統包）後，聯發科便可以像白牌手機一樣，賣給客戶全套的智慧型手機解決方案。由於陸續開發出ＧＰＳ、藍芽、WiFi以及多媒體等功能晶片，景發只要負責再將微軟的作業系統導入，聯發科就能夠複製白牌手機的成功模式，切入智慧型手機市場。
業者表示，聯發科雖然在中國大陸白牌手機市場攻城略地，不過，出了中國，聯發科的手機晶片便英雄無用武之地，因為諾基亞、Sony Ericsson以及摩托羅拉等國際手機大廠早有自己的盤算，不願將訂單丟給聯發科，為了繼續在手機市場擴張版圖，蔡明介便把腦筋動到智慧型手機的頭上。
智慧型手機價格將白牌化？
毫無疑問，電信業者總希望多一些人幫忙開發更便宜、效能更強的智慧型手機，試想，一支動輒要價新台幣一萬五千元以上的智慧型手機，一旦聯發科能複製在白牌手機的成功模式，將產品售價降低到五、六千元，消費者接受度勢必更高，電信業者也能增加更多的營收。問題是，除了聯發科以外，華碩、明基、廣達、仁寶以及鴻海等大型電子公司，都不約而同對智慧型手機很感興趣，約莫一年半前，當宏達電表明將轉切入品牌市場時，包括Vodafone、O2、 i-mate、惠普以及Palm等國外電信業者與知名品牌廠商便曾與華碩等代工廠密切接觸。
尤其，微軟為了要拓展手機市場的占有率，也開始扶植這些長期在ＰＣ與ＮＢ領域的台灣合作夥伴，想不到一年半過後，這些代工廠研發的速度竟然還是跟不上宏達電，國外客戶為避免市場流失，只好回頭請宏達電幫忙。
智慧型手機技術需要時間累積
顯然，智慧型手機的進入門檻不如想像中簡單。宏達電主管透露，關鍵就在於智慧型手機的技術是要時間累積的，尤其，軟體在智慧型手機扮演的角色非常吃重，核心團隊如果經常變動，找來的新人就算再厲害，還是要從頭開始解各式各樣的bug（小毛病），功能愈多，bug 就愈多，結果研發速度自然會落後於競爭對手；反觀宏達電核心團隊的十一位成員從成立到現在，除了卓火土因健康因素呈半退休狀態以外（仍擔任董事職務），其餘重要幹部都還留在公司打拚。
其次，智慧型手機的軟體作業系統（微軟）雖然與ＰＣ以及ＮＢ一模一樣，廣達、仁寶以及鴻海等代工廠也幫戴爾與惠普代工多年，甚至這些產品從頭到尾都是台灣廠商設計、製造的，然而，國內代工廠卻受戴爾與惠普等品牌廠商影響太深，養成完全放棄產品主導權的習慣，當客戶主力不放在手機上面時，國內代工廠也不會把資源集中到智慧型手機了。
業界人士表示，華碩算是這些年來國內廠商當中，最有誠意在這塊市場發展的公司，一個月光是花在研發智慧型手機的費用，據估計就高達五千萬元，儘管如此，截至目前為止，華碩幫Vodafone 等客戶代工的產品出貨量卻少得可憐，至於廣達、明基以及鴻海集團等成效也不如預期。看來，智慧型手機能長期維持高售價，不是沒有原因的。
歐美品牌廠商與電信業者雖然也把訂單丟給台灣其他代工廠，問題在這顆大補丸在吞下去以後，大部分人卻消化不良，景發雖有聯發科這個富爸爸撐腰，並引進兩家創投溢價增資，近期開始從一般功能的手機（feature phone）練兵，同時也取得ＬＧ的訂單，但是，這和智慧型手機的問世，還是有一段不小的差距，何況，連耕耘一段時間的華碩、鴻海集團都還在這個市場載浮載沉，聯發科真能再度演出後發先至的逆轉秀嗎？
所幸，外資圈對聯發科投下了信任票。其中，花旗環球證券亞太區半導體首席分析師陸行之便認為，聯發科下半年將推出二‧七五Ｇ智慧型手機ＩＣ解決方案；業界人士也表示，華碩、鴻海集團一開始就從難度最高的３Ｇ智慧型手機切入，短期內自然成效難以顯現，聯發科選擇先從二‧五Ｇ以及二‧七五Ｇ破冰，反而是比較務實的做法。
至於究竟有哪個客戶願意率先採用聯發科的產品，目前還不得而知，可以確定的是，聯發科和景發切入智慧型手機市場，還是需要一段時間才會看到具體成果。難怪，對於外界提起聯發科以及景發將朝智慧型手機市場發展的消息，公司總是低調否認。
不論如何，至少聯發科已經開始和客戶接觸了，有了中國大陸的成功經驗，業界也會對聯發科投注更多的注意力，業界人士表示，這是一條對的路，智慧型手機接下來肯定還很有得玩，儘管聯發科的智慧型手機晶片為二‧五Ｇ與二‧七五Ｇ，宏達電產品八○％以上為３Ｇ，短期影響有限，但長期而言，聯發科的威脅還是不容小覷。至於接下來蔡明介率領的聯發科團隊能否讓王雪紅交出股王寶座？時間將證明一切。
二月十四日西洋情人節當天，傳出南韓ＬＧ，以及中國大陸手機廠ＴＣＬ、海信等３Ｇ手機晶片訂單下給聯發科的消息，受此激勵聯發科股價強勢反彈逾兩成，可見３Ｇ晶片對聯發科的意義不容小覷。除了３Ｇ晶片以外，聯發科還準備挑戰宏達電，切入智慧型手機市場，對王雪紅來說，這個情人節恐怕浪漫不起來。
手機業界人士表示，去年中成立的景泰通訊（二月十九日改名為景發科技，股本由二億元提高到四‧二億元），董事長林慧玲為前聯發科代理發言人，另一董事陳維漢則是聯發科前稽核主管，二者關係顯然非常密切；至於總經理張欣晴不僅是明基前手機部門主管陳盛穩的左右手，也是聯發科總經理謝清江在台大電機系的同班同學。
兩位同窗的合作默契是，聯發科朝智慧型手機晶片發展，景發則幫聯發科設計智慧型手機所需的軟體，二者整合成一套的智慧型手機turn key（統包）後，聯發科便可以像白牌手機一樣，賣給客戶全套的智慧型手機解決方案。由於陸續開發出ＧＰＳ、藍芽、WiFi以及多媒體等功能晶片，景發只要負責再將微軟的作業系統導入，聯發科就能夠複製白牌手機的成功模式，切入智慧型手機市場。
業者表示，聯發科雖然在中國大陸白牌手機市場攻城略地，不過，出了中國，聯發科的手機晶片便英雄無用武之地，因為諾基亞、Sony Ericsson以及摩托羅拉等國際手機大廠早有自己的盤算，不願將訂單丟給聯發科，為了繼續在手機市場擴張版圖，蔡明介便把腦筋動到智慧型手機的頭上。
智慧型手機價格將白牌化？
毫無疑問，電信業者總希望多一些人幫忙開發更便宜、效能更強的智慧型手機，試想，一支動輒要價新台幣一萬五千元以上的智慧型手機，一旦聯發科能複製在白牌手機的成功模式，將產品售價降低到五、六千元，消費者接受度勢必更高，電信業者也能增加更多的營收。問題是，除了聯發科以外，華碩、明基、廣達、仁寶以及鴻海等大型電子公司，都不約而同對智慧型手機很感興趣，約莫一年半前，當宏達電表明將轉切入品牌市場時，包括Vodafone、O2、 i-mate、惠普以及Palm等國外電信業者與知名品牌廠商便曾與華碩等代工廠密切接觸。
尤其，微軟為了要拓展手機市場的占有率，也開始扶植這些長期在ＰＣ與ＮＢ領域的台灣合作夥伴，想不到一年半過後，這些代工廠研發的速度竟然還是跟不上宏達電，國外客戶為避免市場流失，只好回頭請宏達電幫忙。
智慧型手機技術需要時間累積
顯然，智慧型手機的進入門檻不如想像中簡單。宏達電主管透露，關鍵就在於智慧型手機的技術是要時間累積的，尤其，軟體在智慧型手機扮演的角色非常吃重，核心團隊如果經常變動，找來的新人就算再厲害，還是要從頭開始解各式各樣的bug（小毛病），功能愈多，bug 就愈多，結果研發速度自然會落後於競爭對手；反觀宏達電核心團隊的十一位成員從成立到現在，除了卓火土因健康因素呈半退休狀態以外（仍擔任董事職務），其餘重要幹部都還留在公司打拚。
其次，智慧型手機的軟體作業系統（微軟）雖然與ＰＣ以及ＮＢ一模一樣，廣達、仁寶以及鴻海等代工廠也幫戴爾與惠普代工多年，甚至這些產品從頭到尾都是台灣廠商設計、製造的，然而，國內代工廠卻受戴爾與惠普等品牌廠商影響太深，養成完全放棄產品主導權的習慣，當客戶主力不放在手機上面時，國內代工廠也不會把資源集中到智慧型手機了。
業界人士表示，華碩算是這些年來國內廠商當中，最有誠意在這塊市場發展的公司，一個月光是花在研發智慧型手機的費用，據估計就高達五千萬元，儘管如此，截至目前為止，華碩幫Vodafone 等客戶代工的產品出貨量卻少得可憐，至於廣達、明基以及鴻海集團等成效也不如預期。看來，智慧型手機能長期維持高售價，不是沒有原因的。
歐美品牌廠商與電信業者雖然也把訂單丟給台灣其他代工廠，問題在這顆大補丸在吞下去以後，大部分人卻消化不良，景發雖有聯發科這個富爸爸撐腰，並引進兩家創投溢價增資，近期開始從一般功能的手機（feature phone）練兵，同時也取得ＬＧ的訂單，但是，這和智慧型手機的問世，還是有一段不小的差距，何況，連耕耘一段時間的華碩、鴻海集團都還在這個市場載浮載沉，聯發科真能再度演出後發先至的逆轉秀嗎？
所幸，外資圈對聯發科投下了信任票。其中，花旗環球證券亞太區半導體首席分析師陸行之便認為，聯發科下半年將推出二‧七五Ｇ智慧型手機ＩＣ解決方案；業界人士也表示，華碩、鴻海集團一開始就從難度最高的３Ｇ智慧型手機切入，短期內自然成效難以顯現，聯發科選擇先從二‧五Ｇ以及二‧七五Ｇ破冰，反而是比較務實的做法。
至於究竟有哪個客戶願意率先採用聯發科的產品，目前還不得而知，可以確定的是，聯發科和景發切入智慧型手機市場，還是需要一段時間才會看到具體成果。難怪，對於外界提起聯發科以及景發將朝智慧型手機市場發展的消息，公司總是低調否認。
不論如何，至少聯發科已經開始和客戶接觸了，有了中國大陸的成功經驗，業界也會對聯發科投注更多的注意力，業界人士表示，這是一條對的路，智慧型手機接下來肯定還很有得玩，儘管聯發科的智慧型手機晶片為二‧五Ｇ與二‧七五Ｇ，宏達電產品八○％以上為３Ｇ，短期影響有限，但長期而言，聯發科的威脅還是不容小覷。至於接下來蔡明介率領的聯發科團隊能否讓王雪紅交出股王寶座？時間將證明一切。
Friday, May 28, 2010
Is Intelligence Overrated? (27.05.10) - TWStuff
What's your view?
Lysette Anthony appeared on the show to promote her new play, No Expense Spared, with Joe McGann.
Where kebabs come from with Giles Coren
Food critic Giles Coren visits a kebab factory to see what goes in to making them and how much of it is actually meet.
Giles Coren interview (28.05.10) - TWStuff
Giles Coren appeared on the show to promote his new book, Anger Management for Beginners.
Note that I had to trim some of the 'coming up' stuff for timing reason
低價中國５大真相，你我正在付出的代價
你可能知道生活週遭充斥著中國製產品，但你可能不知道中國廉價產品的背後，讓其它國家的人丟了工作。毒奶事件後更讓消費者避之唯恐不及。暢銷新書《低價中國》作者哈妮，分享挖掘低價中國５大真相，告訴我們影響你我消費背後的真相？
Rod Beckstrom - The Starfish and the Spider
Rod Beckstrom is the co-author of The Starfish and the Spider: the Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations. The book analyzes in an entertaining way how a new form of organizations and a new style of management, based on starfish networks, is taking the business, social and geopolitical worlds by storm. Rod has advised government officials around the world. He has also given speeches on organizational structure, technology and leadership at the State of the World Forum, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Microsoft, Starbucks, Napster, Harvard University, Stanford University, and YPO Universities.
Billionaire Bill Gates's quest to eradicate polio
Billionaire Bill Gates's quest to eradicate polio
Nigeria is ground zero for the reemergence of polio. Now the country is making surprising headway against the crippling disease, in part thanks to an unlikely meeting of two leaders: Microsoft mogul Bill Gates and the Sultan of Sokoto, the spiritual leader of Nigeria's 70 million Muslims. WSJ's Rob Guth reports.
Nigeria is ground zero for the reemergence of polio. Now the country is making surprising headway against the crippling disease, in part thanks to an unlikely meeting of two leaders: Microsoft mogul Bill Gates and the Sultan of Sokoto, the spiritual leader of Nigeria's 70 million Muslims. WSJ's Rob Guth reports.
Obama: 'No silver bullets' for clean-up
Obama: 'No silver bullets' for clean-up
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Adobe and Apple CEOs square off
Adobe and Apple CEOs square off
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen sits down with Alan Murray and fires back at Apple's Steve Jobs in latest round of Flash fight.
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen sits down with Alan Murray and fires back at Apple's Steve Jobs in latest round of Flash fight.
Personal Finance Minute: Tips for Job Seekers
Personal Finance Minute: Tips for Job Seekers
Whether the labor market gains or loses jobs in coming months, the loss of more than 8 million jobs in the recession means those seeking work don't have an easy road ahead of them. Here's one career consultant's job-search strategy. MarketWatch's Andrea Coombes reports.
Whether the labor market gains or loses jobs in coming months, the loss of more than 8 million jobs in the recession means those seeking work don't have an easy road ahead of them. Here's one career consultant's job-search strategy. MarketWatch's Andrea Coombes reports.
Videogame Sales Get Shot Down
Videogame Sales Get Shot Down
The weak videogame industry showed no signs recovering as April sales fell 26%, the market's sharpest decline since last July. Dan Gallagher helps explain the decline and looks ahead to developments that could invigorate the industry's bottom line.
The weak videogame industry showed no signs recovering as April sales fell 26%, the market's sharpest decline since last July. Dan Gallagher helps explain the decline and looks ahead to developments that could invigorate the industry's bottom line.
Google TV debuts
Google TV debuts
Jessica Vascellaro has details on Google TV, which was just unveiled by the internet giant at its developers conference in San Francisco. Plus, social networking for kids and retailers use their stores to speed up shipping for online orders.
Jessica Vascellaro has details on Google TV, which was just unveiled by the internet giant at its developers conference in San Francisco. Plus, social networking for kids and retailers use their stores to speed up shipping for online orders.
iPad makes global debut
digits: iPad makes global debut
Apple's iPad debuted overseas on Friday, drawing long lines of eager consumers who were hoping to get their hands on the hot-selling tablet-style computer that is still in short supply in the U.S. Bruce Orwall has details from London.
Apple's iPad debuted overseas on Friday, drawing long lines of eager consumers who were hoping to get their hands on the hot-selling tablet-style computer that is still in short supply in the U.S. Bruce Orwall has details from London.
Obama, BP and The Gulf Oil Spill – What Should Be Done?
President Barack Obama used the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to renew his pitch for alternative energy Wednesday, arguing that the unfolding environmental disaster “gives you a sense of where we’re going” without comprehensive reform.
The federal government is “going to bring every resource necessary to put a stop” to the spill, the president said during a visit to a solar panel manufacturing facility in Fremont, California. “We will not rest until this well is shut, the environment is repaired, and the cleanup is complete.”
But, he added, “a lot of damage has been done already. The spill in the Gulf, which is just heartbreaking, only underscores the necessity” of seeking alternative fuel sources. A failure to enact comprehensive energy reform, he argued, would pose a threat to national security and the economy, as well as the environment.
And this:
The Obama administration, under pressure to act over the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, is expected to announce Thursday that it will suspend consideration of any applications for exploratory drilling for oil in the Arctic until 2011.
The decision is a major blow to Royal Dutch Shell PLC, which had planned an ambitious oil-drilling program in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas off Alaska this summer. Shell has been arguing to regulators that its operations in Alaska would face a lower risk of the kind of problems faced by BP PLC in its ill-fated Gulf of Mexico operation.
Is this enough? Not enough? Too much? Do you agree BP should be running the cleanup instead of the government? Given BP is the most knowledgeable on such things, despite never having tested some of their methods, is there a choice? What do you think about suspending drilling? Are you in the conspiracy camp that says the explosion was on purpose to further alternative energy? What other steps would you take?
Anne's Theme
The song "Anne's Theme" from the miniseries "Anne of Green Gables". I transcribed this piece about 20 years ago when I first watched the movie. I recently found this sheet music which was better than my original transcription so I thought I'd learn it. Hope it turned out okay.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Disrupt 2010: Startup Battlefield Finale - Soluto
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Disrupt 2010: Awards
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CHINICT: China’s biggest tech conference, streaming right here on TechCrunch
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Disrupt 2010: Jack Dorsey, Founder & CEO, Square
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Disrupt 2010: Bill Gross, CEO idealab, debuts TweetUp
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Disrupt 2010: Yuri Milner, CEO & Founding Partner, Digital Sky Technologies
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Opening Remarks: Mike Arrington
Opening Remarks: Mike Arrington
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The Writer - Cameron
Smart Girls At The Party
Amy Poehler, Meredith Walker and Amy Miles celebrate girls who are changing the world by being themselves.
http://www.onnetworks.com/videos/smart-girls-at-the-party/cameron#
Cameron has been writing stories with a penchant for the paranormal for years now (and she's only ten). She tells Amy, Meredith, and Amy about how she comes up with ideas, beats writer’s block and even co-writes an original story with the Smart Girls crew!
Amy Poehler, Meredith Walker and Amy Miles celebrate girls who are changing the world by being themselves.
http://www.onnetworks.com/videos/smart-girls-at-the-party/cameron#
Cameron has been writing stories with a penchant for the paranormal for years now (and she's only ten). She tells Amy, Meredith, and Amy about how she comes up with ideas, beats writer’s block and even co-writes an original story with the Smart Girls crew!
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Carol Bartz To Michael Arrington: “F*ck Off!”
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Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz took the stage for a fireside chat with our own Michael Arrington. It took about 15 minutes, but Mike got her to tell him to “fuck off.”
That’s not all she had to say. When Mike pressed her about Yahoo outsourcing the social graph to Facebook. Bartz admitted that if she could own it (as Facebook does), she’d love to. “Oh, I’d love to own it — shit, why not?,” she said. She said also that “I’d love to be Queen Poobah – but I’m not.”
I highly suggest you read the notes below. She had plenty of interesting things to say. Not just about the new Nokia and Match.com deals, but about Apple, Google, Facebook, and yes, even TechCrunch.
Just wow.
Update: And here’s the video (or it’s at the bottom).
Below find my live notes (paraphrased):
MA: So how the fuck are you?
CB: Is that all you got?
MA: So my last two posts were critical.
CB: Were they?
MA: You don’t read TechCrunch? I can show you how. It’s weird, I talked to you backstage, you’re a human being. You took the time to talk to us.
Okay let’s go. What is Yahoo?
CB: (her mic cuts off) What is Yahoo? Yahoo is a company that is very strong in content. It’s moving towards the web of one. We have 32,000 variations on our front page module. We serve a million of those a day. It’s all customized. Our click-through rate went up twice since we started customizing this. People come to check the things they like. “You can just get it together.” Yahoo is one site people always stop at.
MA: You had two pieces of news. One is a partnership with Match.com. Why abandon personals?
CB: It wasn’t in the sweet spot of what we do. It was the same with HotJobs. It’s just not about in line with we do anymore. I was trying to think about if I should fly with the volcano cloud, I checked the AP, it was 17 hours old info. We need live content feeds.
MA: Are there any other of the big Yahoo properties you’re killing?
CB: No. We’re focused now.
MA: What was the other one?
CB: We had an announcement with Nokia. Co-branded.
MA: How important is mobile to Yahoo going forward?
CB: We’re on 37 million of the 82 million mobile devices in the US. We have half the US market. People don’t think that’s true, but it is. And we’re huge in the emerging world. It was important to get to the dominant partner outside the market.
MA: So is the focus not on the smartphones?
CB: We still do them too. We have an iPhone app, for example. We have alliances with 100 OEMs. We’re on 2,300 different handsets. I have a BlackBerry and an iPhone.
MA: No Android?
CB: No.
MA: Let’s talk about the product perspective. You’ve made some changes and there have been departures. The new blood is Blake Irving. Does he run product at Yahoo now?
CB: Absolutely.
MA: Is there a product Czar? Does he answer to you? Think about how Steve Jobs acts, he’s in charge. Is that Blake?
CB: You can’t find anyone like a VP that compares to Steve Jobs so that’s not fair. Blake reports to me — under him there are three segments. We have one of the largest private clouds in the world. We serve 10 billion ads a day — that’s a huge technical effort. There’s no one strategy at Yahoo. We do a lot of things.
CB: We know that men have banner blindness but will look at them in certain areas. Women will look at them in other areas. Men are odd.
MA: What about the iPad?
CB: With the iPad, Apple is a hardware and software company. It’s an evolution — not revolution. These days if you’re not coming out with some device, you’re not innovating, apparently. But that’s not true. There’s a soul to our product. Absent Steve Jobs, who’s the product soul in big companies? It’s a lot of people who have to do it.
MA: You ever hear the saying, “a camel is a horse designed by committee”?
CB: That’s true but you implement with several people. I can imagine that a lot of concepts are brought to Jobs too — there are people involved. It’s naive to think there’s not.
MA: Why Blake? He was a professor at Pepperdine. Before that he was at Microsoft.
CB: Well he was taking a two year break from Microsoft.
MA: Fair enough. How important is social to Yahoo?
CB: Back when social had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product. We have a million comments a day now. We had 85,000 comments on day one at Yahoo News. And we’re merging in some of the big products like Twitter, etc. We’re doing some new cool things with Mail next month too. It’s about finding out the new things about people.
MA: Facebook would say the social graph is key. Is that important to you? Are you comfortable not owning that?
CB: I don’t know if anyone really owns it. They share it with partners. It’s just about getting the information. Building a better user experience.
“Oh, I’d love to own it — shit, why not?” “I’d love to be Queen Poobah — but I’m not.” (reference to Grand Poo-Bah from Gilbert & Sullivan’s “The Mikado“?)
MA: In 2008 you said Jerry Yang first approached you about the job. You said you weren’t the right person for the job. Are you now?
CB: I’m one of many. Many people could do this job. There’s no one special person for any job. That’s the beauty of it.
MA: You’ve asked bloggers to tone down some of the critiques and advice. But you made a statement earlier this year that Google has some problems.
CB: Did you see the interview? I said Google needs to grow a Yahoo every year — just go into a lot of businesses. They have to be a 20% grower. It’s not so bad to say.
MA: You said they were so reliant on search advertising.
CB: Is that wrong?
MA: No but you said it’s not a good trick to have.
CB: I would love to have that! Like the social graph. What I said has to be true. I’m just saying they need to grow a company the size of us every year. They have to do other things.
MA: Are you being a hypocrite by giving them advice when you say you don’t want advice?
CB: I gave them my opinion. You do that all the time. “I’ve never had a bong in my life if that means anything to you.”
MA: Is your pitch kind of BS though?
CB: Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 — the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years. I’ve been here a few months. Give me a break. You are involved in a very tiny company.
MA: Very tiny.
CB: It probably takes you a long time just to convince yourself what to do. “So fuck off!”
MA: Are you a search company or not?
CB: Half of our revenue is from search. The fact that you can crawl the web is a commodity. We’re about search, but we’re not a search company. We do a lot of things.
Read more: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/24/carol-bartz-talkes-with-michael-arrington-at-techcrunch-disrupt/#ixzz0p0vQVepe
Disrupt 2010: Startup Battlefield–Session 4: Finalists
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Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York, we had a panel entitled “Does The iPad Change Everything For News, Or Is It Still All About The Web?” The New York Times’ David Carrmoderated the panel which included angel investor Ron Conway, Huffington Post CEO Eric Hippeau, and Bloomberg chief content officer Norm Pearlstine. The common theme? The only thing that can stop the iPad is Apple.
While that may sound confusing (since, of course, Apple makes the iPad), everyone seemed to agree that Apple’s restrictions could end up hurting the device in the long run. Apple is in control right now because they’re the first to market with a killer product, but others will emulate them, reasons Pearlstine. He believes a lot of the content on these type of tablets will eventually be web-based rather than app-based (similar to an argument Google co-founder Sergey Brin made last week).
Carr extended on that question, asking if maybe the iPad itself would just be a device where you consume content on the web rather than through apps?Hippeau says that’s up to Apple. Clearly they want to push people towards apps, behind their wall, he believes. The problem with this is that Apple doesn’t give back nearly as much data as having your own website would, Hippeau says. He thinks Apple will have to learn that media organizations live off of this data. “They’ll have to open it up more,” he says.
Pearlstine agrees, saying that the key for traditional publishers is their lists of subscribers. More importantly, they have their payment information. With iPad apps, Apple has that information, and that will be a problem for a lot of media companies. “There will be other providers that won’t do it the Apple way,” he says. That, again, is implying that while Apple may have jump-started the industry, if they don’t open up a bit more, a competitor will beat them.
Of course, that hasn’t happened with the iPhone yet. But Android is charging fast.
Conway believes that Apple has a good lead for now though thanks to its “fantastic user interface.” He sees publishers flocking to it just like the music business did to the iPod/iTunes combo. “It’s a better model than free,” he says.
Review: Verizon HTC Incredible
The HTC Incredible brings some powerful hardware to America's largest network, Verizon, and should help Android continue its campaign of rampant growth.
The phone packs a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm and is powered by Google's multi-touch and multitasking capable Android 2.1 OS. The phone will have an 8-megapixel camera with autofocus and dual LED flash. It offers 8 GB of internal memory, but one-ups the iPhone by offering up to 32 GB of swappable microSD storage.
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Projections on buildings
Impressive and stylish projections on buildings, a renewing way of communicating. For those who want to carry out a message in a striking and visually attractive way with guaranteed exposure: 3D Projection on buildings is the communication tool of 2009, and what an impact!
NuFormer Digital Media develops high-skill 3D video mapping projections. These 3D projections will be custom-made to fit any specific building and will be exposed by a battery of powerful projectors.
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Good Vibrations by Jérémy Clapin
Good Vibrations by Jérémy Clapin
I can’t get enough of mid-century educational and safety-related animated shorts so I’m delighted to see a contemporary take on those films with The Responsibility Project from Liberty Mutual, which is a series of entertainment shorts intended to “create a forum for people to discuss personal acts of responsibility.” The most impressive animated short created for the program thus far is Good Vibrations by French animator Jérémy Clapin, the director ofSkhizein. The four-minute film, which is directed, designed and written by Clapin, manages to be funny and entertaining while slyly slipping in its message about the necessity of individuals taking initiative instead of rubbernecking. With his strong graphic concepts and effortless visual storytelling, Clapin’s work continually impresses, and he’s proving himself to be one of the more exciting new voices in animation. Watch Good Vibrations on the Liberty Mutual website.
Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
About this talk
In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning -- creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish.
Catholic communities fear collapse
Deutsche Welle: The continuing discussion about cases of sexual abuse and allegations concerning Bishop Walter Mixa have led to widespread mistrust of the Catholic Church in Germany. Catholics are leaving the church in growing numbers, and congregations fear collapse. Here is DW's report from a Bavarian Catholic community.
'But my Mom doesn't have papers'
'But my Mom doesn't have papers'
Second-grader joins national movement that's declaring 'immigrant rights are civil rights'
With legislation popping up all over the country targeting immigrant groups, a national movement is forming to fight back. In one example in the video, Arizona bans ethnic studies, in spite of the fact that the state's own superintendent is clueless on Chicano history. In response, students of a popular Mexican-American Studies program in Tucson organize and blockade their high school to stop superintendent from entering.
Produced by Jesse Freeston.
Second-grader joins national movement that's declaring 'immigrant rights are civil rights'
With legislation popping up all over the country targeting immigrant groups, a national movement is forming to fight back. In one example in the video, Arizona bans ethnic studies, in spite of the fact that the state's own superintendent is clueless on Chicano history. In response, students of a popular Mexican-American Studies program in Tucson organize and blockade their high school to stop superintendent from entering.
Produced by Jesse Freeston.
5000年來華人第一次首長直選在台灣 1949-2009
民主，向來是台灣在華人世界中最引以為傲的貢獻，而地方首長選舉更是老百姓當家作主的第一步。但很多人不知道，5000年來第一次的縣長普選是從哪裡開始？ 答案是台灣美麗的後山－花蓮。
第一次選舉，選出了誰？ 第一次選舉，又發生了哪些歷史性的影響？
[影音] 亞洲最溫柔細緻的社會運動，在台灣
台灣的社會運動，曾經與抗爭、暴力、示威劃上等號，用激烈手段突破僵硬的體制。鄰近的韓國、中國、泰國，到今天仍然上演流血抗爭、武裝鎮壓。但是，新一代的台灣年輕人同樣從事社會運動，卻出現了溫柔而細緻的方式。
他們為何不再暴力抗爭？ 他們用什麼和平而細緻的方式？ 他們發動了什麼改變？ 年輕人要為改變社會注入新思維與活水。
桂綸鎂—幸福就是走難走的路
《天下雜誌》384期教育特刊，以青少年的獨立為主題，專訪桂綸鎂談自我成長的過程。
桂綸鎂在電影中，總以甜美纖細的形象出現，但現實生活裡，他卻頑強而反叛，像一只渴求獨立、想望自由的風箏，希望脫離父母的層層保護。
銀光幕裡纖細動人的桂綸鎂，在成長路上，他卻始終堅持走難走的路；努力在生命中尋求存在感。鎂光燈之外，桂綸鎂試圖在顛簸的人生旅途中，讓自己更豐富。
如果...你的敵人，是你最好的朋友......
求職必勝！如何讓Google把你當成人才？
景氣低迷，工作難找，畢業即失業的悲觀氣氛更籠罩在大學校園裡。在這個時候，Cheers雜誌特別邀請了Google台灣區總經理簡立峰，與巨匠電腦總經理黃志聰到校園對談，分享大學生如何在艱困的就業環境中脫穎而出，成為職場的明日之星。
Facebook: The Scrooge of 2007?
He also offers advice on which tools to use. Check out all the helpful information Reporter Abby Prince, right here on WebProNews.Facebook recently launched a new advertising network called Facebook Beacon. MoveOn.org and many users see it as a violation of privacy. "I saw my gf bought an item i had been saying i wanted... so now part of my Christmas gift has been ruined." Matthew Helfgott posted this comment on the MoveOn.org Facebook group called, "Facebook: Stop Invading my Privacy!"
MoveOn.org filed a petition against Facebook and is asking users to support their cause. WebProNews spoke with Adam Green, MoveOn's Spokesperson for Civic Action and Matthew Helfgott, a student and Facebook user, about the privacy issues. Check out all the details Reporter Abby Prince, right here on WebProNews.
Facebook Hates You, OKC Bombshell, Synthia - Sunday Update
Sunday Update is a public service of The Corbett Report.
Zuckerberg calls Facebook users "dumb fucks"
http://ur1.ca/00rx7
Facebook gave advertisers personal info of users who clicked on ads
http://ur1.ca/02vce
Zuckerberg used Facebook data to hack users' private email accounts
http://ur1.ca/02vcg
Do You Have Facebook?
http://ur1.ca/a9bk
David Paul Hammer on the Alex Jones show
http://ur1.ca/012kp
Terry Nichols affidavit reveals high-level FBI help in OKC bombing
http://ur1.ca/02vcs
OKC Bombing Survivor Jane Graham Reveals Prior Knowledge
http://ur1.ca/02vcv
Brig. Gen. Ben Partin Delivers Lecture on OKC bombing
http://ur1.ca/t743
McVeigh reveals Special Forces role to sister
http://ur1.ca/02vd8
David Paul Hammer blogs about being placed in solitary confinement
http://www.deadly-secrets.com/blog.html
Venter creates Synthis a "synthetic cell"
http://ur1.ca/02vdq
Craig Venter BBC Newsnight Interview
http://ur1.ca/02vdw
The UK gov was running a foot-and-mouth "drill" just months before the virus decimated British livestock in 2001
http://ur1.ca/02vet
The US anthrax scare of 2001 was a false flag operation
http://ur1.ca/02vf1
Information on the 2007 foot-and-mouth outbreak in the UK (traced to government lab)
http://ur1.ca/02ve4
What is the Lizard Brain?
A fun video animation describing the symptoms of the "Lizard Brain." The concept is based on Seth Godin's best-selling book, Linchpin. You can pick up a copy of Linchpin at Amazon: http://amzn.to/a8wone Illustration by Martin Whitmore Animation by Paul Durban Produced by Blazonfire.com
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Android 2.2
Android 2.2 小結：
Android 2.2 OS 果然跟預期的一樣，更新了先前大家預言的強大功能，除了速度上的提升，還新增 20 幾項細部功能，另外 Android Market 的應用也做得更加完整。呼呼，如果各位手上的 Android 手機不能升級到 2.2 的話，斑比真心覺得，你會想要摔手機。
Tribal Leadership Explained
Bnet created this video to explain the concepts in Tribal Leadership (Harper Collins, 2008). Let us know what you think!
Hackathon
Over 300 hundred hackers attended the kickoff of TechCrunch Disrupt at 2 p.m. today.
The die-hard techies will spend 20 hours, many without sleep, to come up with the next big idea. The participants will compete in a rapid fire pitch in front of a panel of judges tomorrow before noon.
Zappos Hack-a-thon
While these projects are mostly in concept-form only, it should give you some visibility into potential future advances that we could build for our customers and employees.
We are going to ask you to vote for your favorite project, which we will then get ready to go live.
Inside Disrupt Hackathon [Video]
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by Evelyn Rusli on May 22, 2010
Just a quick update for those tracking the Disrupt Hackathon. Pizza has been delivered, the Red Bull girls have made their rounds, and the group seems to be in high spirits. TechCrunch developer Andy Brett and I made the rounds this afternoon, chatting with developers (who came from places as close as New York and as far as Israel) to discuss their projects and their strategy for the evening. Many expected to use a combination of potent caffeine and quick naps to power through the session. Some offered quirkier solutions: one team toyed with the idea of napping in the beginning and working during the late hours (to sleep through the noisiest part of the day) and another set a hard deadline of 2 am so that they could be the most refreshed team during the presentation round. We’ll find out who makes it and what they’ve made tomorrow at 11am— and for those who can’t be here, we plan to Livestream the event as well. Until then, enjoy our brief video of Hackathon (Andy doesn’t make frequent video appearances so this is a real treat, bonus points if you find his 2 cameos). This was all shot on a flip cam.
Because you could never be too educated, Zappos offers classes (some mandatory, some not) to it's employees. One class that helps keep our Zappos culture alive and well is the Zappos Culture Course. This class births a lot of the fun and weird events that go on inside the office.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
The other debt crisis: Climate debt
The other debt crisis: Climate debt
Fault Lines from Bolivia explores how underdeveloped countries can develop in the era of climate change
Friday, May 21, 2010
國家賠不賠
國道三號走山的意外，交通部允諾給予受難者家屬國家賠償
那為什麼之前類似的案件申請國賠卻屢遭拒絕？
政府單位互踢皮球，小老百姓該向誰求助？
國道三號走山造成四人罹難，而後交通部允諾給予受難者國家賠償，後續效應之一是，其他之前遭到駁回的國賠案，都出現了「敗部復活」的機會。這些案子可能也將首開先例，創下國賠史上，政府「先以天災拒絕，後以新事證認賠」的作法。然而真的有機會，重啟國賠程序嗎？一起重回豐丘明隧道及雙園斷橋事故現場，看看家屬們爭取國賠的心路歷程。
民國63年9月28日，基隆的八堵交流道發生山崩奪走36條人命
36年後，國道三號走山是不是歷史的重演？而政府學到教訓了嗎？
八堵交流道事件，是台灣高速公路開發史上第一個災害事件，當年中山高都還沒有通車，八西里就先付出36條人命的代價，一個輕度颱風造成的山崩，沖垮了山腳下的一排民宅。同樣震驚全國的走山意外，36年前發生一次，36年後再次重演，當年到現場調查的學者如何看這兩次事件？而當年的生還者對於當時的走山，還存有什麼樣的印象？
2012：當科學遇上預言
全球的自然災難發生頻率越來越高，馬雅人2012的預言難道會成真？
科學家是如何看待這個預言？到底2012年會發生什麼事？
隨著全球自然災難的頻率的升高，許多人不禁開始想像馬雅人所預言：2012是本次文明的終點，這到底是不是真的？2012真的像電影所說的是世界末日嗎？科學家們各抱持著不同的看法，當科學遇上預言，究竟會產生什麼樣的火花？
小事用心 - 和台灣同樣位於東亞的韓國，近年積極推動觀光
和台灣同樣位於東亞的韓國，近年積極推動觀光
如何同時提升效率和品質，一起看看韓國在小事上如何用心？
從漢城奧運開始，再歷經主辦世界杯足球賽，一次次大型國際活動為韓國帶來更多蛻變的自覺、魄力和創意。台灣也耗費鉅資辦了好幾次大型國際盛會，除了政治操作和短期商機，生活品質和生活價值能不能也同時做提昇？韓國對觀光的用心，有哪些值得台灣學習的地方？
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