Archive for 'High-Tech'

Alibaba CEO Jack Ma’s Speech in the US (2009)

Posted on 04. May, 2009 by Chris.

In the talk, Jack highlighted the power of fit for enterprise growth, while pursuing after top-notch MBA won't really work for Chinese enterprise. Current year has seen lots of job losses or graduates failed to locate proper opportunity. It seems the market is playing a joke but on the other hand it poses lots of opportunity. If you are a piece of gold mine, you will shine in any organization then.

IQ – The Smart Browser

Posted on 26. Apr, 2009 by Chris.

We had been sticking to Internet Explorer along the way before FireFox emerged and took over 40% of the market share. FireFox is great because it is Open Source and there are many tailor-made functions for particular purposes and that sparked mass collaboration, which I also discussed in another blog post earlier. I have been a huge fan of FireFox but recently, I spotted a start-up problem when many applications are loading in one time - the start-up speed was too slow.

Thoughts from Twitter Search

Posted on 03. Apr, 2009 by Chris.

The blog has been deserted for a while due to my busy timetable recently. But the rumour that Google is soon to acquire Twitter really brought me back on board with quite a few thoughts awaiting to share. Twitter is a universally famous mini-blog with user based comparable to FaceBook, MySpace from my understanding, but it [...]

Ubiquity for Firefox – A Good Pitch

Ubiquity for Firefox – A Good Pitch

Posted on 25. Jan, 2009 by Chris.

FireFox’s high performing capability is no secret to us. Its open-source platform has enabled the company to surpass IE and its other competitor by at least two folds. There is more to expected in the future. Below is a good pitch for the new interface and ubiquity for Firefox. I like the first few mins [...]

Winners of the 2008 Crunchies

Winners of the 2008 Crunchies

Posted on 10. Jan, 2009 by Chris.

I think it worth a decent check of the each winner from respective category. So I keep a note here as well. Here are the winners of this year’s Crunchies, which honor the best tech companies from 2008. More than 170,000 people voted to select the nominees, and more than 350,000 people voted to select the winners. And here are the nominees, with the winners highlighted: Best application or service Get Satisfaction Google Reader (winner) Minted Meebo MySpace Music (runner-up) Yelp

Paradigm Shift – Awakening Giant Catching Up

Posted on 03. Jan, 2009 by Chris.

Further to my last thread, we could see vast majority of similar things happening in China. Take tudou.com (invested by GGV, IDGVC, JAFCO, and a few more VCs, ranked 22nd of SilliconAlley’s fast tech company list) for example, is now worth an estimated value of US$200m. If my memory is intact, it is the only [...]