最近发现自己写code还是有不少问题，总是会在一些小地方犯重要的错误。
这里，还是要学习Comars他们在ACM比赛中的一个经验，不要Copy/Paste code，所有的code都自己认真敲键盘，就算有重复的code也要再敲一遍，虽然费点时间，但是这样会避免很多错误。比如你可能copy一段code，还需要改一些变量名或者做小的修改，可能稍微少改了一处，结果导致一个bug。这种bug还很难查找......所以，宁可多花一点时间写更solid的code了
恩 要solid啊 恩 恩
The FactoryCity weblog discusses the value of creating "not to do lists" to get rid of the stress of an overwhelming to do list:
As someone leading four or five lives' worth of stuff to do... having a "Not to do list" when I'm getting jammed up makes a lot of sense. It means being more aware of what you're wasting your time on and... frees up more time to be filled with real good stuff.
As Web Worker Daily points out, the Someday Maybe list is where GTDers can get prolific with their to dos without feeling too much stress, but if you're someone who gets overwhelmed at lists when they start stretching into forever, even the Someday Maybe list can get stressful. Reviewing your to dos and figuring out your "not to dos" is a good way to clean house and catalog those things that you've prioritized out of your life.
Apparently a blogger named Kwisatz has uncovered a "secret" photo embedded into the hologram that encompasses the Windows Vista Business DVD. This being Microsoft, the photo naturally depicts three total nerds, grinning excessively at their own cleverness. Of course, this could be a total Photoshop, but somehow we find such an embedding eerily plausible, so we're going to stay cautiously optimistic that this is real. Hit up the read link for full res versions of the discovery.
When Steve Jobs takes the stage Monday at Apple's programmers conference, he's likely to give the world a glimpse of an upgraded Mac operating system that could herald the biggest changes to the machine's interface in 30 years.
At the annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Jobs will probably show off Leopard, a Mac OS X update due in October that he has promised contains "top secret" features. But perhaps the most important feature is one that has been overlooked by many Apple fans: a new set of tools for building program interfaces called Core Animation.
(Editor's note: See our Leopard preview story, "Apple to Show Off Leopard's Claws at WWDC.")
Core Animation will allow programmers to give their applications flashy, animated interfaces. Some developers think Core Animation is so important, it will usher in the biggest changes to computer interfaces since the original Mac shipped three decades ago.
"The revolution coming with Core Animation is akin to the one that came from the original Mac in 1984," says Wil Shipley, developer of the personal media-cataloging application Delicious Library. "We're going to see a whole new world of user-interface metaphors with Core Animation."
Shipley predicts that Core Animation will kick-start a new era of interface experimentation, and may lead to an entirely new visual language for designing desktop interfaces. The traditional desktop may become a multilayered three-dimensional environment where windows flip around or zoom in and out. Double-clicks and keystrokes could give way to mouse gestures and other forms of complex user input.
The Core Animation "revolution" is already starting to happen. Apple's iPhone at the end of the month will see people using their fingers to flip through media libraries, and pinching their fingers together to resize photos.
Shipley's initial release of Delicious Library, with its glossy, highly refined interface, gave birth to a new breed of developers dubbed the "Delicious generation." For these Mac developers, interface experimentation is one of the big appeals of programming.
Applications like AppZapper have taken traditional tasks (deleting application files) and added a fun layer of animation to the mix -- this isn't your father's rm command. Disco is a disc-burning program that features smoke animation that reacts to sound -- blow into the mike, and the smoke blows away.
But creating animations like those in AppZapper or Disco is presently a complex and difficult task.
Leopard's Core Animation will change that, giving the next generation of developers a set of tools that will allow them to easily create new, nonstandard, interactive interfaces.
Some Mac developers are so excited by Core Animation they are going to drop support for previous versions of their software, which won’t display their new interfaces on older versions of OS X.
"Our customers are going to have to upgrade their OS if they want to upgrade our program," Shipley says. "We realized any app we released based on Tiger (the current version of OS X) was going to look really pathetic when Leopard came out."
After getting a peek at Delicious Library 2, which hasn’t yet been shown publicly, Mac programmer Scott Stevenson wrote that the program is "going to be a major eye-opener for Mac developers. This last point is important. Whatever you thought was state-of-the-art in Tiger is going to be blown to bits with all of the new API (application programming interface) available in Leopard."
Allan Odgaard, the developer of TextMate, says the next version of the text editor will only work on Leopard. Because of Apple's nondisclosure agreements, most of the Mac developers approached by Wired News declined to discuss Core Animation or any interface changes they might be planning. None would provide screenshots.
The shift toward nonstandard interfaces isn't necessarily new. Kai's Power Tools, a set of plug-ins for Adobe Systems' Photoshop, featured what was at the time a revolutionary interface for editing image files. But the developer, Kai Kruse, was too far ahead of his time -- the majority of Mac users disliked the novel interface, which broke with conventions and ignored Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, or HIG.
The HIG is a set of rules published by Apple to ensure consistency across different applications. It's become the bible of Mac programmers.
However, with the growing popularity of "widgets" -- mini, task-specific applications for checking sports scores or finding cheap gas -- users are starting to accept novel interfaces. And they often expect the sort of highly graphical interaction that Apple's new Core Animation enables.
Image helps understanding
对于图像信息，我们的阅读速度往往要比文字来得快。我们可以一瞥就完成对一幅图像的解释。
这也就是为什么很多重要的新闻要配置图片的目的之一。有图片的新闻我们可以简单的扫一眼就能猜到文字的内容大概是关于什么的。这甚至要比阅读一个长的Title还要快。
现在越来越多的Blog开始有图片，媒体的内容加入，这些信息都更容易的吸引眼球。
相信图像广告已然也会因为同样的原因而更受广告投放者的欢迎。
路上和Dai Qiang聊天的时候说起， 其实一篇Paper写出来的顺序，和实际进行研究时候的顺序往往是不同的。一个Idea往往很吸引我们，Paper很可能写的很引人入胜，但实际上很多时候的研究顺序确是反的，首先，先有一些现有的方法，先有一些实现上的东西，而后才有的KeyIdea，而后才有的整个论文的写作思路。
所以，看paper还是要认真，体会其中的精要所在.............
最近在做Texture Synthesis，本来在之前的时候还自以为是的读了几篇Texture Synthesis的Paper，写过一个Survey。结果，真正自己做起来，才发现有些东西并没有理解。而且，在那次做Survey时候读过的一篇论文中[Ashikhmin2001]提到的 coherent synthesis居然没有真正理解（这本来是该篇论文的主要贡献之一）。所以，结论是看paper不认真，只是大概了解了其idea，并没有真正的想明白其中的奥妙。
其实，类似的例子还是有的，比如Sun Jian 的 Lazy Snapping 还有 Image Completion with Structure Propagation 都有很深的数学内涵，自己第一次看的时候都没能体会。看来今后读paper还是要认真。
微软CEO Steve Ballmer 正式揭开Microsoft Surface的面纱。让我们一睹下一代电脑操作界面的芳容。Surface绝不仅仅是一个触摸屏核心的UI系统，Surface已经摒弃了传统的鼠标操作的概念。不仅仅支持手势，多个目标（多个手指同时触摸），甚至还可以识别放在其上的物品。
虽然surface也已经有了相当长的发展历史，从2001年到现在已经发展了6年。Surface距离真正的应用还是有一段的距离，不过，相信在不久的将来，计算机人机交互界面的革命一定会改变我们当前对计算机的全部认识。
如果你想先睹为快，看看Surface的样子，这里是Surface的官方网站
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
At the D: All Things Digital conference Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will unveil Microsoft Surface, the first in a new category of surface computing products from Microsoft that will “break down traditional barriers between people and technology”.
A Surface computer is able to recognize physical objects from a paintbrush to a cell phone and allows hands-on, direct control of content such as photos, music and maps. Surface turns an ordinary tabletop into a dynamic surface that provides interaction with all forms of digital content through natural gestures, touch and physical objects.
The new product is aimed directly at hotels, retail establishments, restaurants and public entertainment venues and should be commercially available towards the end of the year.
It’s an interesting product in that it’s completely out of left field. Microsoft gives examples of ordering a beverage during a meal with just the tap of a finger and quickly browsing through music and dragging favorite songs onto a personal playlist by moving a finger across the screen. Build this into a bar and you’d get one-touch beer service although I’m not sure if they’ve found a way to work out when your beer glass is empty so replenishment becomes automatic, maybe in a later version.
The practical uses for Surface at the point of sale are broad. This is touch screen point of sale technology at a new level.
Initial launch partners include Harrah’s Entertainment, Starwood Hotels and T-Mobile. Coverage at CrunchGear here.
Update: Channel 10 has a great first look video here.
这个月好夸张啊，没有四处乱吃，没有啥特殊活动，没有买书。还好昨天给饭卡充值，否则这周就夸张了orz....
不过，由于这个月买了代理主机+域名 花掉了大头的money，不过那个是2年的费用，不好在这里计算。
总归，还是具体看看分析吧。
吃饭的份额占的更多了，看来通过记账来紧缩银根的计划算是好好的得到了完成
不过，也看出这个月也算是够糟糕的，基本上大部分的指出都是生活基本保障的支出
吃饭+超市（生活用品）将近一半。
至于预算部分，各类内容都控制在了预算之内，一部分是由于预算确实需要改进，另一部分也是由于这个月确实很少需要花钱的特殊的地方。改进预算的时候还是要具体的分析吧。恩。
暂且这样吧
另外，加上代理主机的钱之后这个月的预算还是有盈余，总归还是不错di
紧缩 紧缩 呵呵
公司的Exchange Server似乎不允许通过Rule向外部转发邮件
这样收邮件就很麻烦
不过，我们可以利用Macro宏 来实现邮件转发
需要利用Outlook的NewMail事件来完成：
（1）tool->macro->Visual Basic Editor，打开Visual Basic编辑器。
（2）在ThisOutlookSession对象中输入如下代码：
Dim mymailitem As MailItem
Set mymailitem = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Items.GetLast
'获取最后一封邮件
Do
mymailitem.Forward '转发
mymailitem.To ="some@where.com"
mymailitem.Send '发送
Set mymailitem = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Items.GetLast
'获取下一个邮件
Loop Until mymailitem.UnRead = False '直到所有未读邮件被转发完为止
End Sub
Today in Wired news
Got Cash? You Can Loan Money Like a Big-Time Banker
Prosper co-founders John Witchel (left) and Chris Larsen smile for the camera.五一黄金周，去天津转了一圈，可惜也没有照几张像样的照片。
我那可怜的网络相册有一次被无情的荒废了。相机的快门按钮不好用了，还是凑合用吧，也问题不大。摄影包坏掉了，书包也坏掉了，有空去买个摄影背包，兼做书包好了 sigh
Timon去了趟美国，参加SIGCHI，人家多牛啊 呵呵，还照了很多漂亮的照片。
唉，看来我还真是够颓的....算了 不说这个了 呵呵
这个五月应该还会过得不错吧，谁知道会怎样呢
一直无所事事，老大一直也不理俺们，俺们就这么安然的继续无所事事。
漂着就飘着吧，也无所谓吧 呵呵 随便牢骚牢骚好了 呵呵
偶然在Gmail里面看到这样一个Google AdWord
其中第二个链接会指向后面的那个网站。
显然是该网站投放的广告。而我们可以看到该网站的主要内容就是推荐使用Firefox，而其实际目的就是为了吸引留言用户，点击下载Firefox（其实那个下载link本身就是一个Google AdSense的广告)
这样，也就是一边付费给Google实现推广自己的网站，同时，自己的网站通过广告从Google那里获得收益。这件事可以说还是很有意思的。显然，这个买卖显然不会赔钱，网站商不是傻子。至于Google是否赔钱，这个是Google自己的事情了（主要是这个推广带有Google Toolbar的Firefox活动本身可以理解为Google自己投放的广告.....
另外，一个有意思的事情是。这个网站下面也使用了Google AdSense, 而且Google很聪明的认为这个Ad位置与这个网站注册的AdWord具有相当高的关联度，于是显示了这个网站本身的广告。也就是自己页面上的广告link到了这个页面本身。这件事就很有意思了，看起来，应该每个Click是对Google有利而让网站赔钱吧。总之，很有意思，值得研究，呵呵。
又到了本月结算的日子了
这个月过得还算节俭，整个财政预算有了将近30%的盈余部分。
记账还是有效果的，要坚持 恩
日常餐饮一直保持了正常水平，这个预算的数值大概可以进行修改了。
由于没有大型bg行为，与朋友吃饭的部分有了大量的结余，也刚好填补了上个月的赤字。买书依然是一大块的收入以及持续的赤字，买了书不看的毛病要改改了，而且预算的相应部分可能会准备调整。
如上个月观察到的，娱乐的部分适当的有所增长算是好现象，而且，也趋于稳定。
其他部分基本处于高度不稳定状态....继续观察中
从结余和赤字情况看，日常餐饮需要进行修改，购买书籍的数值需要修正，对于特殊突发性事件，还不好处理...继续考虑中。总之，这个月还算不错啦，呼呼～～
黄金周，消费周来临 哈哈哈 Happy!
学校周边其实已经有非常好的购书全套解决方案
现在我最喜欢的集中式大型书店还是中关村图书大厦，地方大，书架安排的也比较合理。找东西比较舒服，平时人也不是非常多。另外就是计算机相关的图书相当的多，毕竟是地处中关村，是我见过计算机图书最全的大型书店。
第三极可以算是中关村图书大厦的一个备份吧，书摆放的很乱，相当的乱，因此我也说不好是不是第三极真的有比中关村图书大厦更多的书。总之，不是很习惯，但是毕竟距离都不愿，可以作为备份或无聊的时候逛。
不过，这两家大型书店的人文书籍并不是非常齐全
好在北大校内有几家小规模的书店（北大某个楼的地下一层）
里面有很多人文相关的读物，可以说一般的人文书籍在哪里都可以找到了。
另外，清华南门外的万圣书店五道口的光合作用书房 都是很有意思的书店，书店不大，人文、经管之类的一些有意思的书可能去那里找比较合适，小资的书也适合去那里找。中关村图书大厦是工兵找书的地方........
商业街购书
西单图书大厦是北京最早的一家大型书店，高中的时候一致喜欢去哪里“穷文化”。不过，我只能说西单图书大厦曾经是北京最大的大型书店，而现在，书的数量以及场地都很受局促，而且位于商业街附近，人比较多，一般就是到西单的时候有空顺便去逛逛吧。
王府井新华书店位于北京王府井步行街南口，其光顾人数之多可想而知。同样，受限于面积问题，书的数量并不是很多，而且分类做的并不理想，有些书甚至不上架只是摆在拐角，或随意的找一个台子摆放实在是....
总之，这两家商业街附近的大型书店一般不会特意去买书，路过可以去看看吧。
另外，王府井往北有 商务印书馆 的书店 以及 三联书店，两家书店都以人文类书籍见长。商务印书馆书店里有丰富的人文学术资源，当然，汉译文学名著这里最全。三联书店则是涵盖了人文、小资、艺术等多方面书籍，值得一提的是，这里的科普书籍居然惊人的全，是我见到科普书籍最多的书店了（中关村图书大厦、西单图书大厦也还不错的）。
至于艺术类书籍，三联书店对面就是美术馆，美术馆边上就有一家专门买艺术类书籍的书店。当然，艺术类书籍贵啊.........
o 似乎说了很多废话，赶紧stop..............
科普名作
计算机科学相关、数学相关
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid: A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll (commonly GEB) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas Hofstadter, published in 1979 by Basic Books. A new preface by Hofstadter accompanied a 20th anniversary re-edition (ISBN 0465026567), which was released in 1999.
At one level, it is a book about how the creative achievements of logician Kurt Gödel, artist M. C. Escher and composer Johann Sebastian Bach interweave. As the author states: "I realized that to me, Gödel and Escher and Bach were only shadows cast in different directions by some central solid essence. I tried to reconstruct the central object, and came up with this book."
The central theme of the book is more abstract. Hofstadter asks: "Do words and thoughts follow formal rules, or do they not?" In the preface to the twentieth-anniversary edition, Hofstadter laments that his book has been misperceived as a hodge-podge of neat things with no central theme. He stated: "GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter. What is a self, and how can a self come out of stuff that is as selfless as a stone or a puddle?"
哥德尔、艾舍尔、巴赫——集异璧之大成
译校者的话
读者打开的这本书是一本空前的奇书。
在计算机科学界，大家都知道这是一本杰出的科学普及名著，它以精心设计的巧妙笔法深入浅出地介绍了数理逻辑、可计算理论、人工智能等学科领域 中的许多艰深理论，然而当你翻阅它的时候，首先跳入眼帘的却是艾舍尔那些构思奇特的名画以及巴赫那些脍炙人口的曲谱，最后，你合上这本书的时候，竟会看到 封面上印着“普利策文学奖”的字样。
...
今天上午，Bill Gates在清华的演讲结束后4个小时。MSRA的Blog上发出了相关的消息。
内容是Bill Gates关于新浪网友一千多网友提出的问题中的一个给以的答复。
同时，比较有趣的并不是Bill的答复或者这个发布的内容本身。
这里，我们可以看到第一条评论的内容（见图）
这里隐去了Link
欢迎到我的博客看看，全明星阵容强悍无比
周杰伦年少时和女同学的性关系
电影导演和女影星的偷情剧情
少妇和狗做爱卡住三天没分开
大S性感写真
女大学生兼职做妓女
裸体婚纱照（图）
周杰伦红起来幕后的真正原因（和一女人的不正当的关系）
婚前王菲和一男子过一夜情
张柏芝和以前的男友有过性关系
~支持你的文章，欢迎到我的博客转转
周笔畅的男友曝光
何洁劲舞中低胸走光
超级女声的排行榜
张韶涵性感裸露照
林心如的色情截图
章子怡和男友在派队上不小心被撤掉低胸衣服，裸露
双乳被抓拍
周迅在影片中全裸激情的做爱片段
2偷拍走光美女
支持你的文章，谢谢欣赏我的博客-精彩的明星生活内
容，八卦，炒作,明星美女最新写真
刘德华和莫文蔚的性爱姿势
名导演的出道
下蛋的公鸡
不知道是不是已经习惯了这样的尴尬呢......
后续：
一小时后，该回复被“和谐”
剩下的第一条回复就是我发的 沙发........
这就是人生.........
盖茨发表主题为《未来之路：在中国共同创新》的演讲(骆磊/摄)
清华校长为比尔·盖茨先生颁发学位证书(骆磊/摄)查到的一些有意思的书的资料不知道放到哪里
又怕忘记，就做个记录吧
by Herbert A. Simon
Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, computer science, public administration, economics, management, and philosophy of science and a professor, most notably, at Carnegie Mellon University. With almost a thousand, often very highly cited publications, he is one of the most influential social scientists of the 20th century.
Simon was not only a polymath, but a truly innovative thinker. He was among the founding fathers of several of today's most important scientific domains, including Artificial Intelligence, information processing, decision-making, problem-solving, attention economics, organization theory, complex systems, and computer simulation of scientific discovery. He coined the terms bounded rationality and satisficing, and was the first to analyze the architecture of complexity and to propose a preferential attachment mechanism to explain power law distributions.
Simon's genius and influence is evidenced by the many top-level honors he received later in life. These include: the ACM's Turing Award for making "basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing." (1975); the Nobel Prize in Economics "for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations" (1978); the National Medal of Science (1986); and the APA's Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology (1993).
What a terrible news.........
是在搞不明白这帮人怎么想的，一家IT公司在另外一家IT公司提供的免费网络服务上开设博客....
不能想想，假想一下Google在Baidu开个博客是啥样子......
我就不明白，为什么这帮人就不能自己弄台服务器，就不会架一个Open的Blog.....可以理解各种原因，包括受众也算是一个原因。
但是，不知道这算不算MSRA正式的抛弃MSN Space........实在是意见太让人可笑的事情.............
sigh
anyway
MSRA Blog URL:
Companies may talk about embracing Web 2.0, but they're slow to invest in blogs, wikis, and many of the other new collaborative technologies that are generating headlines. Instead, they're putting their resources behind technologies that enable automation and networking, according to a Mar. 22 McKinsey Global Survey, "How businesses are using Web 2.0."
During January, 2007, 2,847 executives from global companies, 44% of whom were C-level or above, were asked to provide insight into which of nine Web 2.0 technologies they were currently investing in—and how their use of these technologies has evolved over the past five years.
Web services, including software that enables systems to communicate with each other, attracted the largest investments, with 80% of executives reporting that they use or plan to use them. These services might be used, for example, when a retailer and a supplier communicate over the Internet to automatically update each other's inventory systems. Collective intelligence, which attempts to tap the wisdom of crowds to make decisions, was the second-largest draw, with 48% of executives reporting investments. Peer-to-peer networking, a technique for efficiently sharing music, video, or text files, also attracted attention, with 47% of executives reporting investments.
Both Adobe and Microsoft are launching products that step right on each others’ turf today. Microsoft is launching Silverlight, a direct competitor to Adobe’s Flash. Meanwhile, Adobe is launching Adobe Media Player, a rival to Windows Media Player. This could be the hardest fought battle in the rich media space…well, ever.
Silverlight vs Flash
WINNER: Flash
Silverlight has been under development for more than two years. It’s a browser plugin for playing media files and interactive Web apps that works on Windows PCs and Macs with Firefox, IE and Safari. Partners include Brightcove, Limelight Networks, Netflix and Akamai. Silverlight provides DRM and the window can be resized thanks to the use of vectors. A pre-release version is available for download. Flash has a large installed base, and lots of traction after YouTube and other video sites made use of it. Microsoft, however, could reverse that trend by including Silverlight in automatic updates, pre-installing it on PCs and so on.
Adobe Media Player vs Windows Media Player
WINNER: Windows Media Player
The Adobe Media Player, meanwhile, is a free desktop media player designed to take on Windows Media Player. Adobe is going in the other direction to Microsoft: trying to leverage its dominance of online video and interactive apps to kickstart uptake of the desktop app. Adobe Media Player lets you subscribe to content via RSS, and it’s the only major desktop media player that will support Flash. This too is cross platform (Windows and Mac), and features Flash DRM, a feature that the independent company Widevine announced last week. Providers will also be able to attach ads to content.
It seems to me that the ultimate winner in this battle will be the one to push the greatest number of users from one platform to another: from Windows to Silverlight, and from Flash to Adobe Media Player. Both companies seem to have a good shot at doing that, meaning that the ultimate victor is just too hard to call.
also from Batelle's Search Blog
http://battellemedia.com/archives/003531.php
于是看到有人吃贴了..........
And I will eat my post before where I said they would not. From the Journal:
Google Inc. said Friday that it would purchase Internet services company DoubleClick Inc. for $3.1 billion, marking another big foray into the heart of the Web economy.
The price represents a stunning change in valuation for the company, given that it fetched $1.1 billion in 2005, and has since sold off parts of itself to other parties. Among others, Microsoft Corp., had been vying for control of New York-based DoubleClick, which is controlled by San Francisco private-equity firm Hellman & Friedman.
Even as the Internet economy enters its second decade, the price shows just how valuable important market positions can still be. In adding DoubleClick, Google pushes deeper into the business of placing, or "serving," the electronic advertisements that dot Web sites.
But it also complicates Google's already fraught relationships with Web publishers, who often rely on Google for advertising revenue and traffic, but worry that Google's ever-growing market power may somehow crimp their own growth plans.
This purchase requires a lot of thought. Will Google make the service free? Did it buy the service mainly for the data about display advertising - data it wants so it can drive efficiencies into that market? The price is way over the whisper number last week - did Google once again outbid its competition? Looks that way. The price is cash - not stock. Now Google has a major set of relationships with display advertisers.
But will they trust Google? My sources told me that Google was building its own, now it's clear it wanted the relationships which came via a market leader. And to force me to eat my post, which I will do Monday when I can get home to a printer (yum).
More to come.
By Wired
Dylan Tweney 
04.13.07 | 2:00 AM
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/04/timoreilly_0413?currentPage=all
Tim O'Reilly addresses the crowd at ETech in March 2007.It's not too late to get on the "web 2.0" bandwagon, says publishing magnate Tim O'Reilly, who coined the term. And if you're wondering what it takes to build a web 2.0 startup, O'Reilly has just the conference for you -- the Web 2.0 Expo.
O'Reilly Media and CMP are co-hosting the conference, which runs April 15 to 18 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
Organizers expect between 7,000 and 10,000 people to check out the conference's 120 exhibitors and seven educational tracks, covering topics from the elementary (web 2.0 fundamentals) to the complex and critical (web operations). O'Reilly describes it as a "how-to conference for web 2.0 developers."
O'Reilly has been on many bloggers' lips during the past two weeks. The buzz at his recently-concluded ETech conference was about Kathy Sierra's abrupt cancellation of her speaking appearance there. Sierra cited anonymous death threats and harassment on her own blog's Comments section, as well as on two blogs created by Cluetrain author Chris Locke. In the ensuing debate, O'Reilly brokered a meeting between Sierra and Locke, and made a call for a "bloggers' code of conduct." He even proposed badges that bloggers could put on their sites to indicate whether they moderated comments heavily or not at all.
We spoke with O'Reilly this week to find out what's in store at the show, the current state of the much-hyped "web 2.0" terminology and his current thoughts on civility in the blogosphere.
Wired News: Can you tell us what's exciting about web 2.0 and what we can expect from the conference?
Tim O'Reilly: One of the big changes at the heart of web 2.0 is the shift from the creation of software artifacts, which is what the PC revolution was about, to the creation of software services. These are services that ultimately, if they are successful, will require competencies of operation, of scale, and the like.
I remember talking to people about this three or four years ago, and they (wanted to know) how many people need to scale services to the size of Google? Well, there are now hundreds of services as big as Google was back then.
Increasingly, with services like Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), we're starting to see the emergence of operations as a platform, as well as an internal competency. Amazon's been a real pioneer there.
WN: Are there any trends among the companies exhibiting at Web 2.0 Expo, the kinds of services and technologies being shown?
O'Reilly: Well, obviously this is a market with a lot of froth in it already. I have to say there are a lot of me-too products and companies. Yet another social network, of the 15th flavor -- that's common in every new technology revolution. There are imitators who have marginal improvements.
One of the companies that's going live on Monday is Spock, which is a people-search engine. It's really, really impressive. It's thinking about whether there are other classes of data to which search hasn't really been applied.
That goes back to a major theme of web 2.0 that people haven't yet tweaked to. It's really about data and who owns and controls, or gives the best access to, a class of data. Amazon is now the definitive source for data about whole sets of products -- fungible consumer products. EBay is the authoritative source for the secondary market of those products. Google is the authority for information about facts, but they're relatively undifferentiated.
Why did Google, for example, recently decide to offer free 411 service? I haven't talked to people at Google, but it's pretty clear to me why. It's because of speech recognition. It has nothing to do with 411 service, it has to do with getting a database of voices, so they don't have to license speech technology from Nuance or someone else. They want their own data stream.
WN: So you think that (control of data) is actually more characteristic of web 2.0 than social networking or Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) interfaces?
O'Reilly: Absolutely. Anybody who thinks that this is about Ajax is completely missing the boat.
I do think building rich internet applications is an important part of web 2.0. I don't want to dismiss it, because we are able to build richer application platforms today. But it's ultimately about network effects, and where do you build services that get better the more people use them? And it's also about the databases that get created as a result of those network effects.
As far as I'm concerned, web 2.0 is still in it's really early stages, and the reason is because the data isn't all owned yet.
The network-effects play is about how you get increasing returns by everybody using your stuff, which is really what Microsoft did on the PC. Here we see it again, where these are winner-takes-all games. The internet looks like an open platform in the beginning, but once somebody gets a lead, their service gets better fast enough, if they've harnessed all the right levers, until it becomes a real barrier to entry.
Why, despite many attempts, have we seen nobody able to dethrone eBay? Well, it's because there are network effects at work in auctions. You have a critical mass of buyers and sellers. We're seeing that with Google AdWords -- it's just a bigger and better marketplace. There are these tipping points where these services really become monopolistic.
We're still trying to move people toward really understanding what that new world looks like. I don't think a lot of people are there. A lot of people still think, "Oh, it's about social networking. It's about blogging. It's about wikis." I think it's about the data that's created by those mechanisms, and the businesses that that data will make possible.
WN: You've been blogging about civility and your bloggers' code of conduct. Do you expect that will be a topic of discussion at the conference? Or do you think it will change the tone of discussions there?
O'Reilly: Well, you know, people at a conference would not tolerate the kind of conversations that happen in the comment threads on many blogs. If somebody started standing up and shouting obscenities, you'd throw them out. My point is, most bloggers are way too tolerant of abusive behavior on their blogs.
I've come to think the call for a code of conduct was a bit misguided. A lot of sites have their own terms of service that are a lot like what I proposed for the code of conduct. And I was just saying, let's get the best of the breed, let's figure it out, so somebody who wants to have one of these doesn't have to think it all up for themselves.
People have interpreted that as a call for some kind of MPAA ratings system or something. That's not at all what I was proposing. I was proposing a modular set of terms of service, so somebody could say, "I don't want this kind of behavior." Now, a lot of people already do that, so it's really much ado about nothing.
The problem, as I've really wrestled with it, is that right now your options in terms of enforcing civility are pretty binary. You have the ability to delete someone's comments (on your own blog), or to let them stand.
There are some fairly sophisticated moderation systems out there. Of course, Slashdot is full of people who make terribly uncivil comments. But it's possible because they have a good moderation system, where good comments are voted up. You can set your moderation threshold, you can say, "I only want to see the good comments." So you're exposed to a hundred useful comments, and the 900 comments that have generally been considered drivel or that haven't been voted up, you don't even see them. If you want to read them all, though, more power to you.
Most blogging platforms don't have that kind of control. I want to get an attempt together to get some good moderation plugins on all the major blogging platforms, so people have other options than simply deleting.
The whole (code of conduct) was a reaction to Chris Locke's original statement, you know, "I didn't say that so I have no responsibility." And I'm going, "Wait a minute, yeah, you do. You're the manager of a site that was getting progressively nastier, and you let it happen." It really started with a reaction to this idea that a site owner can and should disclaim comments on their blog.
WN: He did take the blog down.
O'Reilly: Yeah, he did, but that's actually a terrible outcome, because now nobody knows what really was said. There's a lot of he said, she said, with a lot of people who were involved saying "Well, it wasn't really so bad, it wasn't really a misogynistic, nasty site, it was just funny." Well, how do we know? We can't see. It's gone.
WN: So would you put an "anything goes" button or badge on your own website?
O'Reilly: No, what I'd really like, and what I'm going to work for, is to get some better moderation mechanisms. One of the things Slashdot says is to focus on moderating up, not moderating down. Promote the good (comments), because they're often really useful, thought-provoking comments and you want those. If we can give people good mechanisms, that's probably actually better than promulgating any one policy.
前一段，Google推出谷歌拼音输入法。毕竟凭借google在国内的影响力，谷歌拼音瞬间在大江南北走红，并顺利的借助“盗用词库”这一事件，瞬间称为家喻户晓的知名时间。
毕竟Google的受众还是更多，毕竟我也是因为输入法挂上了Google的大名而试用，并推荐这个输入法。然而，Google似乎这一次误用了他的大名气，“盗用词库”几乎在发布的第一天就已经开始在网络上展开广泛讨论。
然而，让那些坚信Google不会Do Evil的Google Fans这一次可能要伤心了。Google中国正式承认输入法词库出现问题。这也让我们再一次想问，Google距离"不做恶(Don’t Be Evil)"有多远。还是Google的Evil距离True Evil有多远....
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揭破Google输入法词库声明的弥天大谎
“搜狗拼音输入法”关于Google盗用词库的声明
抄袭还是炒作？看不懂的谷歌拼音输入法
Google回应：输入法词库的确使用了非自有数据
谷歌承认输入词库曾有问题 避而不谈词库来源
Google Admits Using Outside Source for Chinese App
Google再度致歉 指明“对用户、搜狐”
华尔街日报：Google就与词库争议向搜狐道歉
本文图片引自太平洋电脑网
左图：鲸吞泛欧交易所之后，纽交所派出了罗琳女士来京阐述纽交所的理想。
这位纽交所———现在应该叫纽约－泛欧交易所集团———全球企业客户部执行副总裁此行的重要任务之一，恐怕还是为了应对竞争对手纳斯达克的高调中国之旅。
两天前，纳斯达克在北京举行了敲钟仪式，还推出了中国指数。另外，矫枉过正的萨班斯法案，也令纽交所的上市成本大大高过竞争对手
全文链接
http://business.sohu.com/20070406/n249238648.shtml
今天的天气实在是太完美了。少见的风和日丽，难得的漂亮的北京的春天。
你曾经在数学里品读出诗歌的意蕴么? 你曾经在诗歌中解读出数字的神秘么? 一个是科学王国的宝剑，一个是文学殿堂的瑰宝；一个张扬着理性的威严，一个释放着感性的激情。面对如此遥不可及的数与诗，你的确很难想象这两者之间的联系。前国立清华大学校长刘炯朗教授在前不久举行的“科技与人文”演讲系列中，趣味迭生地为我们揭开了“数里有诗，诗里有数”的奥秘。 
Google今天推出了自己的中文拼音输入法
基于google强大的检索技术，将整个Internet作为训练样本。虽然这个idea已经被搜狗用过，并实现了搜狗输入法。但相信Google此举还是会改变中文输入法的市场格局了吧。
简单的测试，Google输入法尤其对一些网络常用词汇、常用人名等的识别效果尤其好。
比如 最强的 如 gongsui - 弓虽 ，还有大部分的人名字 包括日文人名 如著名声优演员等，动画名称以及动画人物名字也很多都有。一些外来词汇 如：御宅、萝莉控、御姐、残念、怨念、素晴、素敌这样的词都能直接识别。著名的诗词句子可以整句输入。
总之，还是强烈推荐试用一下的。
http://tools.google.com/pinyin/
今天偶尔看了一下Global Fortune 500 2006
我不是搞经济金融的 所以 以下观点会存在问题，大家也请见谅。当然，数据是不会错的。
最大的电器相关的公司是排名11的 GE 美国通用电气
最大的电子器件公司是排名22的 Siemens西门子公司
最大的日用品公司是排名81的 P&G 宝洁公司
最大的计算机公司是排名29的 Intl. Business Machines IBM国际商用机器公司
最大的软件公司是排名140名的 Microsoft 微软公司
最大的娱乐公司是排名122的 Time Warner 时代华纳公司
最大的保险业公司是排名13的 ING Group (当然 Fortune 500是按照Revenues来排列的工业界会有优势)
最大的银行是排名14的 Citigroup
最大的中国公司 Sinopec 中国石化
这里是前十名的公司
这前十名的公司中 有5家是能源（石油）相关的企业 4家是汽车制造业 1家零售业
如果仅仅看前5名 有3家公司是能源产业，1家汽车制造业，1家零售业
看到世界最大的公司了吧 就是这些
No1:
Exxon Mobil (NYSE:EOX)
2005 rank: 3
http://www.exxonmobil.com
Exxon Mobil Corporation or ExxonMobil, headquartered in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, USA, is the largest publicly traded integrated oil and gas company in the world, formed on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil. As of 2007 it is the largest company in the world (in market value) as ranked by the Forbes Global 2000; at $410.7 billion and the second largest company in the world (by revenue, after Wal-Mart Stores as ranked by the Fortune Global 500. It is the largest of the six oil "supermajors" with daily production of 6.5m boe (barrels of oil equivalent), contributing 3% of the world's oil and 2% of the world's energy.
As of 2007, Exxonmobil Corporation ranks as the seventh largest company in the world overall, according to the Forbes Global 2000.
艾克森美孚是全世界第一大型石油企业，其总部设于德克萨斯州。该公司前身分别为艾克森和美孚，于1999年11月30日合并重组。该公司也是艾克森、美孚及埃索全球分公司的母公司。此外，艾克森美孚与蚬壳、BP（英国石油）及Total（道达尔）同为全球最大的石油公司之一。现时公司的行政总裁为李雷蒙。
No2.
Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE:WMT)
2005 rank: 1
http://www.walmartstores.com
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is an American public corporation, and is currently the world's largest retailer and the largest corporation. It was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. It is the largest private employer in the United States (US) and Mexico. Wal-Mart is the largest grocery retailer in the United States, with an estimated 20% of the retail grocery and consumables business, and the largest toy seller in the United States, with an estimated 45% of the retail toy business, having surpassed Toys "R" Us in the late 1990s. As of March 8, 2007, revenue was $2.0 billion higher than the previous year's results, which is less than 1% growth.
沃尔玛（Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.）来自美国，是全球最大的公司（以营业额计算），属世界性的连锁企业。其控股人为沃尔顿家族。
沃尔玛主要涉足零售业。根据沃尔玛的财政报告，截止2005年1月31日的公司财政年度，总营业额为2852亿美元，净利润103亿美元，利润率为3.6%。如果把沃尔玛当作一个国家，它的收入在乌克兰与哥伦比亚之间，可以列为世界的第32位。沃尔玛也是世界上雇员最多的企业，全世界共有约170万雇员。同时也是美国、加拿大、墨西哥的雇员最多的企业。它在美国零售业占零售业总收入的8.9%。沃尔玛连续三年在美国《财富》杂志全球500强企业中名列前茅。
沃尔玛主要有沃尔玛购物广场、山姆会员商店、沃尔玛商店、沃尔玛社区店等四种形式。
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