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    March 12

    敌退我进

    小马哥喜欢创造就业机会,以天下为己任,要让淘宝解决中国人民和全世界人民的工作问题。

    ebay最近则说他们要回到旧货拍卖的领域,不去和amazon这样的网上零售商瞎搞。(http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123679413477397787.html

    胸怀天下,不是道是件好事还是坏事。搞明白太难。

    一个篱笆三个桩

    google开始实施nternet based advertising。广告的匹配原则从原来的搜索关键字,adsense页面内容这两个直接的方式扩展到用户网页浏览历史综合分析。结果我们变得越来越透明。

    google怎么跟踪我们的浏览历史。客户端软件是可行的(chrome和google bar)但似乎他们目前还没有用他们来收集浏览历史。另一个跟踪的渠道就是通过已有的adsense页面来记录。google目前大约40%的收入来源于 adsense,其合作页面的种类和数量在统计上应该已经很有代表性。

    相对google,百度的内容网络在规模小很多。如果用同样方式来跟踪用户浏览习惯会困难很多。一个好汉三个帮,一个篱笆三个帮,兄弟多是件好事请。当然,google是不是好汉,我不胡说八道。

    http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/html/about.html
    March 09

    airborne beef soup

    我一直认为airborne这个词很过瘾,原因是打仗的电影看的太多。jing常喝一种叫做airborne的维生素补充剂,增强抵抗力。对这种补品,我怀有深刻的好感,常常敦促jing同学多喝。昨晚,做了一个关于airborne的梦,录下来:

    我在北京开了一家牛肉汤面外卖店,解决办公室员工的午餐问题。牛肉面20块钱一碗,在北京城东、西、北三个区域免费送餐。每天只卖中午一顿,且每区限额200碗。为挤进前200名,大家每天上班的第一件事就是上网排队预定中午的牛肉面。

    中午12:00整,订餐成功的同学只需要到他指定的阳台上,仰望天空,伸展双臂,迎接他的牛肉面。因为我们的牛肉面是airborne,挂着小降落伞空投过来的。nnd,天上不会掉馅儿饼,但是会有牛肉面。
    March 08

    Shame on Harvard

    from: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/chris-dannen/techwatch/six-best-and-worst-things-web-week

    Harvard's business school purports to educate some of the country's finest business minds, but its track record of late has been abysmal. The London Times highlighted the phenomenon, calling out dunderheaded top brass: the CEOs of Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers were graduates, as are Treasury Secretary Hank "freebie" Paulson and former President George W. Bush. Then there's asleep-at-the-switch SEC Commissioner Christopher Cox, and Enron's CEO Jeff Skilling.

    What about the leaders who emerged as prescient? As the article notes, businessmen like Sergey Brin, Bill Gates, and Richard Branson don't have any kind of formal business education. (Warren Buffett, incidentally, applied to Harvard Business School but was turned down and went to Columbia instead.) The author blames the bad track record on Harvard students' dubious moral compass and propensity to try to make a quick buck in financial services or consulting, instead of going into other, more substantive sectors of the economy. At least it's pretty.