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Wish you could display company news, information, and promotional materials on the TVs hanging in your office or at your events? Perhaps you would like the ability to provide updated information to all your employees in a central location.
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Have your calendar available on the desktop as well as in the cloud with the Google Calendar Sync desktop tool, freshly released from the big G. Sync your primary calendar on your vanilla or Google Apps account to Outlook automatically at a refresh rate you define. Syncing can be one- or two-way, meaning you can add and edit events in Outlook and have them sync to GCal or vice versa automatically. The only catch is that it only works with your primary calendar, not secondary ones

毫无疑问，刘翔的因伤退赛是近来公众关注的最大焦点。舆论的表情非常丰富，有惊谔、遗憾、悲叹、含泪、关切、煽情、鼓励、赞美等等。大多数人接受了官方发布的消息，认为这纯粹是一场让惋惜的意外，不过也有人认为这是一场阴谋，并言之凿凿传得煞有介事：
一种说法是，刘翔已经成为中国田径的旗帜，更成为中国田径的摇钱树。据统计，刘翔2008年光代言收入将超过7800万元，中国田径协会按15％分成，也将超过1000万元。一旦刘翔北京奥运会失利，中国田径协会的业绩和收入将大受影响，不如体面地选择因伤放弃金牌。还有一种说法类似，不过主角换成了赞助商，赞助商有点怀疑刘翔是否能够成功卫冕，于是与刘翔商量出退赛的结果。还有猜测其实田径队早知道刘翔的伤情参加不了比赛，但又怕不好向赞助商、买高价票的观众和全国人民交代，于是策划了临场悲情退赛的那一幕。论坛充斥着对刘翔退赛真相的故作高明的猜测，不外都是"阴谋论"的调子。
稍有点理性的人都不难发现这些猜测的矛盾：奥运将中国置于全球媒体的关注之下，田协不会愚蠢到在全球媒体的眼皮儿底下玩猫儿腻；刘翔因伤退赛，其商业损失一点也不比夺冠失利少，何必费心演出这一幕。如果赞助商不看好刘翔，当初怎么会选择刘翔？即使有人想在背后操纵一切，自信、好强的刘翔也不会接受操纵。没有运动员会放弃在赛场上一决高下的机会，更何况是在自己家门口的奥运会上，他已经等了整整4年。
"阴谋论"不堪一辩不值一驳，不过这种阴谋思维是非常有意思的。正如英国《新科学家》周刊所说：几乎每个大事件背后都会有一套阴谋理论。戴安娜王妃单纯是一场醉酒驾车的牺牲品，还是死于英国皇室的阴谋？阿姆斯特朗是真的实现了月球行走，还是播放的在内华达州拍摄的影片？中国的非典疫情是一场流行病，还是美国人的生化阴谋？印度洋发生大地震是自然灾难，还是有人在测试生态武器？各种领域、各种事件中充斥着形形色色的阴谋论，什么货币金融阴谋论、"9·11"阴谋论、刺杀肯尼迪阴谋论、HIV病毒阴谋论。
如果知道世界上流行着这么多有着丰富想像力、荒诞不经的阴谋论，你就不会愤怒于对刘翔退赛的阴谋分析了。
阴谋论大行其道，首先因为它迎合了人们一种错误的哲学思维，即某种重要的、影响广泛的后果，很可能是由重要的、影响广泛的原因造成的。这就是帕特里克－莱曼的"重大事件－重大起因"思考模式。波普尔对这种思维的归纳是：这个世界上无论发生了什么事，都肯定有某个人是造成此事的原因，而且是某个人故意做的。人们总尝试着将一些重大的事件与一些重大的原因结合在一起。阴谋论由此而生，他们也试图从刘翔退赛这样的大事件、爆炸性新闻中寻找一个重大的原因，伤病这种"小原因"不足以满足他们的好奇心。
然后，阴谋论迎合了人们某种"假想存在某个敌人"的思维，这些人总臆想着世界充满了敌人，他人即是地狱，社会是人与人斗争的野蛮丛林。这种斗争意识使人时时处于紧张的猜疑之中，或臆想着受压迫，或臆想着被蒙蔽，这就是阴谋论的土壤。关于刘翔退赛的阴谋论就带有这样的特征，设立了政府和商人作为对立面，虽然信口开河牵强附会，但颇能赢得一些人相信。
阴谋论所以有广泛的市场，还因为它充满着悬疑的刺激、惊险的诱惑和生动的故事性。这极大地丰富着人们的谈资，所以阴谋论会在当代文化中无处不在，数以千计的电影、脱口秀和电台热线节目都以它们为主题。一些人在故作玄虚、神秘兮兮、哗众取宠地谈论一个阴谋时，既显得自己很聪明、能洞察一切，又能满足公众对故事性、观赏性和刺激性的偏好。
哲学家罗素说过：从虚假的前提出发，狗屁都可以推出来。只要精心选择证据以支持预设的立场，任何荒诞不经的结论，都可以让不具备分辨能力的人信服。如何炮制一套完美的阴谋理论呢？英国《新科学家》周刊的建议是：选择你的对立面、选择你的事件、构造你的故事、准备你的辩护词——我认为这还缺一个最重要的建议：选择一个信息不对称的环境。
 
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这些人不看奥运，等着刘翔一出事就都跳出来了。这恐怕是至今我看到的最恶心人的帖子了。
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刘翔退赛 一切皆在计划: 僵局的打破出现在有一个美国总部老大提出了一个惊天方案：以伤病理由退赛。理由是：一它能保住刘翔的面子
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About a year ago, I was at a geek breakfast in London with Steve Clayton and some other folk, including a few people from Microsoft.
Steve and some other geeks were talking about "The Cloud". At the time Steve was making the transition from working in the UK Partner Division, to working in the "Software & Services" division of Microsoft, which is how the conversation came up.
Right then and there I drew the cartoon above. Steve saw it, and right away asked me if he could use the picture for his business card, which he now does.
That was the first time I really started paying attention to the term, "The Cloud".
I would by no means call myself an expert or an authority on the subject, but in the last couple of months I've been getting increasingly aware of "Cloud Thinking". It's seriously interesting to me.
As far as I can tell, all three of the big tech companies I know best, Microsoft, Sun and Dell, seem to be betting a lot of their future on The Cloud.

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华丽盛大的奥运开幕式上，反复渲染着一个汉字──"和"。
我一边看电视，一边打开iPhone，准备在5Gme上发表一点简短的观感。可是，这个平时访问速度很快的网站，却几次尝试都无法访问。我给刘韧发了个短信，刘韧回复道："机房因奥运视频被封。"
后来知道，某个网站被发现有用户私自发布奥运会的转播视频，整个机房的50多个网站因此被断开网络连接，5Gme只是其中一个被株连者。
我苦笑。一边是泱泱大国五千年文明的现代秀，一边是不分青红皂白的封和杀。这个"和"字，在现代化的声光电的装扮下，怎么看怎么觉得虚伪、虚妄而且虚弱。
我盼着这场打肿脸充胖子的运动，早点结束。
Update: 韩寒说，本届奥运会主题歌《You and Me》 （你和我），意思就是"你和谐了我"。

Apparently a more chat-like microblogging platform. "Rejaw is a new way to chat with your friends, family, and co-workers. Starting a conversation is fast and easy. You can shout messages to your followers, or whisper to your friends. Just think of something to say, and get started!"

a tool for easy access of my favorite To Do List (Web 2.0) application Remember the Milk

One academic warns that it might and says we need to pay attention to it.
As machines learn to understand what the web means, what perspective will they understand it from? Who is teaching them? "Objective" descriptions of the world and the relationships in it can cause real problems, particularly for people with little power in those relationships. How will the emerging Semantic Web understand relationships and what will that mean for us as human users?
Austrian researcher Corinna Bath argues that there is a real risk that the semantic web of the future will be built with the perspectives and assumptions of male computer scientists baked-in unconsciously - at the expense of everyone else.
Background
Corinna Bath is currently research fellow at the "Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society" in Graz, Austria.

This is the second time I post outside of the theme of this blog. The first time is at May this year after Si Chuan earthquake had taken away the life of tens of thousands people. This time is right before the open of Beijing Olympics. Both posts are about China, where I was born.
Beijing Olympics is an important event to Chinese people. It is a demonstration of the rise of new China after a nearly two-century-long painful and humiliating history. As a Chinese myself, I feel happy and proud of the nation and especially of the Chinese people. At the time when we enjoy the games, there is, however, a question worth of thinking---where will the country go afterward?
China, still a nation of mystery in many western people's mind, how to understand this country properly?
History---a double-edged sword
When mentioning China, the first thought jumped into mind is probably its long history.

For some unfortunate reason, there seems to be this idea that "open" solutions are somehow a less feasible business strategy. There are still those that sneer at open source companies as somehow being less-than-true-businesses, despite an awful lot of evidence to the contrary. But beyond just being a good business strategy, it's worth pointing out that "open" solutions will almost always win in the end, because they simply provide more opportunities. For years, AOL insisted on a walled garden strategy -- and in the mid-90s there were many who believed that AOL's proprietary system would "beat" the wider internet. How's that looking these days?
More recently, there's been concern about the various "walled gardens" in the mobile space -- which folks like Walt Mossberg have referred to as "the Soviet ministries." Jonathan Zittrain has been beating the drum, insisting that a closed system, like the iPhone's, is a dangerous trend. However, it seems quite like looking at AOL vs.

It was October of last year when I wrote about a Wired story talking about Plaxo Pulse that generated some of the first rumblings of Lifestreaming entering into the mainstream. Then in January I asked if 2008 would bring Lifestreaming to the masses. Clearly it had now become "Wired" which is a little scary as that sometimes means that something has jumped the shark. But I think in this case we're not going to see that happen.
Now fast forward a few months later and some major notable events. Just a few weeks ago Facebook releases a site re-design which puts a heavy focus on the activity stream and the recently added abilities to import your data from other services and comment on them. TechCrunch proclaims that it's The FriendFeedization of Facebook. This change by Facebook single handedly had the ability to turn millions of Facebook pages into Lifestreams overnight.

By Dustin M. Wax
Look at what you've made. Beautiful, isn't it? But does it work? For whom does it work? Of course you can use it, but can anyone else? In short, is it functional?
At the heart of every piece of practical design, whether it be a website, product package, office building, manufacturing system, piece of furniture, software interface, book cover, tool, or anything else, there is a function, a task the item is expected to perform. Most functions can be achieved in a variety of ways, but there are some basic elements a designer needs to take into account to create a product that best fulfills its intended function.
These are the elements of functional design, the process of responding to the needs or desires of the people who will use an item in a way that allows their needs or desires to be met. Functional design is both an outcome and a process.

Although I love reading programming books, I find software project management books to be some of the most mind-numbingly boring reading I've ever attempted. I suppose this means I probably shouldn't be a project manager. The bad news for the Stack Overflow team is that I effectively am one.
That's not to say that all software project management books are crap. Just most of them. One of the few that I've found compelling enough to finish is Johanna Rothman's Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management. She co-wrote it with Esther Derby.
After reading it, you'll realize this is the book they should be handing out to every newly minted software project manager. And you'll be deeply depressed because you don't work with any software project managers who apparently have read it.
I originally discovered Johanna when one of her pieces was cited in the original Spolsky Best Software Writing book.

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The last week and a smidgen have been very surreal when it comes to wallets, and losing them. This is a Yin and Yang tale of losing wallets, and what happened to them. I get to play the part of a Baboon as I earn a mention for the Darwin awards with how I lost my wallet.
But, first, wallet number one:
Stolen: Union Square
Emily and my family were enjoying some time in Union Square, when at some point during the trip, Emily come to realize that her purse had been stolen out of her bag. It would be an easy thing to do for anyone who wanted, as she was carrying Sam, our two year old, at the same time.
Just in case, we looked all over, but as soon as I checked out account we saw that the person had indeed started to use it. It makes you sick to think about someone running around with your information. The purse had so much in it.

The newly updated delicious.com (former del.icio.us) has brought people another round of interest about social bookmarking. Nova Spivack, the founder and CEO of RN/Twine, just posted his thought of the topic in his public Twine. After reading it, I still want to ask a question: why do we bookmark?
According to Mathew Ingram, bookmarking should already have been out of fashion. Once people have bookmarked a few links using social bookmarking services such as delicious.com, how many times do they really go back and watch their bookmarked items again? Based on Mathew's observation, the answer is very few and nearly to zero. Then the immediate conclusion must be that bookmarking is generally nothing but wasting of time. What value may we gain from bookmarking when we actually never watch the items bookmarked?
To response to Mathew's argument, Nova suggested Twine---his own baby---by saying that Twine will actually bring the experience of bookmarking to another level.

If there is a service that is used the most frequently by most of the Web users, it must be email. The invention of email is often thought to be the killer application of Internet. Without email, the adoption of Internet might have been delayed for several years.
Recently, however, email seems facing a little bit challenge. With the rise of new services such as instant message, wiki, Twitter, and all kinds of social networking functions, email is already no longer the solely primary choice for online communication. How should email be improved to satisfy the rapidly evolving Web?
First of all, we should not try to construct some super-email service that integrates all kinds of new service functions from IM to social networking. It would be a monster too heavy for users to drive, as Alex Iskold pointed out in his post.
Here are a few features I believe a new-generation email should be equipped. Email does not have to replace the other services.

At ProgrammableWeb we have been monitoring the emergence of mashups and APIs since 2005, and while there has always been steady growth, this year has seen an accelerating acceptance of APIs as a business strategy. The most recent evidence is that over 60 API entries have been added to our database in the last 30 days.
As recently as April, we were commenting on reaching 40 entries a month. It's clear that APIs directed to the consumer have reached a level of maturity and widespread usage among the Web 2.0 upstarts and major Internet players, while enterprise usage is following right behind.
Let's look at how the 60 break down by number in each category:
- 8 in the Social API category
- 5 in the Search API category
- 4 Music APIs, and 4 Government APIs
- 3 Mapping APIs, Medical APIs, Reference APIs
- 2 each under Internet API, Photo API, Other API, Travel API, Email API, Messaging API, Feed API, Financial API.
- 1 Storage API, Enterprise API, Game API, Video API [...]

I've been worried for some years that the open source movement might fall prey to the problem that Kim Stanley Robinson so incisively captured in Green Mars: "History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do." Innovators are left behind, as the world they've changed picks up on their ideas, runs with them, and takes them in unexpected directions.
In essays like The Open Source Paradigm Shift and What is Web 2.0?, I argued that the success of the internet as a non-proprietary platform built largely on commodity open source software could lead to a new kind of proprietary lock-in in the cloud.

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As we begin the private beta for Stack Overflow later this week, I wondered: where do the software terms alpha and beta come from? And why don't we ever use gamma?


Alpha and Beta are the first two characters of the Greek alphabet. Presumably these characters were chosen because they refer to the first and second rounds of software testing, respectively.
But where did these terms originate? There's an uncited Wikipedia section that claims the alpha and beta monikers came, as did so many other things, from the golden days of IBM:
The term beta test comes from an IBM hardware product test convention, dating back to punched card tabulating and sorting machines. Hardware first went through an alpha test for preliminary functionality and small scale manufacturing feasibility.

Last night a Cloud Computing panel was held at the offices of Meetup Inc. (thanks to Jonah Keegan) and had great speakers and a great audience.
Our speakers were: Mike Nolet-AppNexus, Jamal Mazhar-Kaavo, Hans Zaunere-New York PHP, Hank Williams, Geir Magnusson-10gen and Ronald Bradford-42SQL
The panel started with an attempt at defining what cloud computing is. The term has become too popular and hence everyone started using it too loosely. So it now means different things to different people, but mainly, it's the abstraction of services from hardware and scaling of data services properly so that services can scale to run on any number instances easily for different levels of demand.
But services do not move magically into the cloud and scale. Almost all applications have to be re-architected and rewritten.

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MyLife Organized (MLO) is a personal task outliner and to-do list manager which will help you to organize your goals, projects and tasks into a tree. The To-Do list with actions that require immediate attention will be generated.

GTD Tiddly Wiki is a GettingThingsDone adaptation by Nathan Bowers of JeremyRuston's Open Source TiddlyWiki. The purpose of GTD Tiddly Wiki is to give users a single repository for their GTD lists and support materials so they can create/edit lists

Online reputation company Rapleaf has released a new study of 49.3 million people, revealing gender and age data about social network users. On most of the main social networks - including MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5 - women outnumber men by a considerable amount. On Facebook, the 18-24 age group is largest, with 1,685,029 women in that age group compared to 977,753 men. In MySpace, the same age group dominates, with 7,091,214 women and 5,226,788 men.
The only social networks studied that didn't have more women than men in the 18-24 year old group were venerable old LinkedIn (where incidentally the 25-34 age group was tops) [...]

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Last year in May, we held a big developer conference, f8. As you may know, we used f8 to introduce Facebook Platform—a development system that enables developers to build applications on Facebook, where all of our 90 million users can interact with them.
Honestly, the fact that applications grew so quickly was a surprise—even to us. We've learned a lot in this last year, and with success also found a new set of problems that we needed to solve. This year at f8, we talked about a lot of our new solutions and how they all fit together. We'd like to share all of that with you, as well.
At Facebook, we want to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. With that in mind, here are some of the big announcements from f8 08:
- The new profile: You may already know about the new profile, and we hope you've already spent some time looking at the new Facebook.

After enjoying Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick's comments on the anti-patterns panel yesterday, I decided to peek into their "Do You Believe in the Users?" presentation. Ben and Fitz started the presentation with "Successful software requires more than just technical effort." as their premise and then went on to build on that premise.
Ben and Fitz used the analogy of meat as technical effort and sizzle as fluff or marketing around the project. Most engineers obsess about truth and use rigorous logic in their thinking, whereas marketing is slimy and to be distrusted. But, Ben and Fitz point out that it is ok to add sizzle without feeling dirty. In a lot of cases its required to have a successful open source project. They offered the example of analysts coming to the Apache Software Foundation to get the scoop on Apache software. The analysts asked the Apache folks to fill out a form about the software and they were swiftly rebuked: "Fill it out yourself!".