A trip to Deventer

Have a short trip to Deventer, a small city in middle of Netherlands, today.

Saxon University
It problaly is the most famous thing in Deventer.


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The Big Church
Every city/town has a church in Netherlands.
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Grote Markt(the Big Market)
Every city also has a Grote Markt
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Walstraat, a street of more than nice facades
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IE9, “why not?”



IE9, a part of  Mircosoft’s revenage, is about to come in next month. As Microsoft IE blog announced that they will lanuch a early version of IE9 in March, 2010: http://duanwz.com/flvu

IE is becoming less and less popular in recent years. Partly because IE has monopolized the browser market since the first browser war. Microsoft has already given up to tie Windows system with IE in Europe, and let the users to choose which browser they want to use.


IE still has the biggest market share, about 62 per cent of total Internet users still use IE (included IE6. 7, 8 and other browsers which use the IE inner core, like The World Browser).


The reason is simple: most user don’t know the difference between IE and Internent. As Microsoft ties IE into Windows system, many people think there is only one browser in the world. Especially in China, many people refue to use other browsers like Firefox and Google Chrome, just because they think IE is the borned browser in Windows, they don’t want any outcomers.

Another reason for them to use IE only, because many websites in China is runned only by IE. Other browsers may have a compatible problem. For those who don’t want to try other browser, is only need a update after IE9 comes up. So, they will say: why not?

But, will IE9 save the IE series? Hard to say so. Browser is a very viscous thing. If you are very used to IE, it is hard to use anther one suddenly. But if you have used different browsers, then you have a comparsion, you will know that IE is not the best browser. It is slow, unsafe and less fashionable. I like to use Firefox and Chrome, there is no way for me to come back again.

The main problem for IE is the inner core, it doesn’t support JavaScript well. When the website is going to be more complex, IE will become more and more slow. This time, Microsoft doesn’t want to change the inner core, but to have a hardware-acceleration. Looks like IE9 is only the temporary solution.

Microsoft, the Empire strikes back

为了锻炼自己的英文水平,这个博客现在改成英文博客了。如果要看中文请看:微软帝国反击战 http://duanwz.com/flve

Microsoft, the biggest competitor of Google, has launched Microsoft Phone 7 in this week. What’s more, the Microsoft’s engineer has showed the technology of next bing map in Ted. Therefore, the episode of Microsoft strikes back is in the show.

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What we are excited about is the new feature of windows phone having abandoned the old microsoft mobile version, and giving it different module to run applications of social network, images, videos, games and Office Mobile. I think they are doing pretty job to make a higher level of user experience.


Windows phone VS Google Phone 

The infulence of windows new phone to Google phone is significant. Google phone is good at web applications, Windows phone has better softwares in the phone like Office Mobile. Let’s consider about the market of these two phones in China. Microsoft always has a good relationship with Chinese government, so it is not so hard to sell it in China. On the other hand, Google had just broken up with Chinese government, and its many web applications might be blocked in China in future.
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Bing map of next generation



The current Google map and Bing map both have supported the 3D street view. But the engineer of Microsoft want to have a indoor and astronomical body view in bing map of next generation. Let’s watch the awesome video.



It is so cool to have a live video in map, and it matches the street image. Google map gets a powerful company now.
Google and Microsoft, these two biggest IT companies fighting each other like dragon fights tiger(龙虎斗). We are glad to see that, thanks to the competition, we can have a better Internet in the future.

Thundering words in Chinese 2010 Spring Festival Gala

A little girl hug the turtle head (Gui’tou, with same pronunciation of glans in Chinese) saying: I like it I like it.
一个小姑娘搂着龟头说:我喜欢我喜欢

In Jiang Kun’s cross talk said: You are the Internet, I am the (Great) Firewall. (Great Firewall of China, is a censorship and surveillance project operated by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) division of the government of China. It has blocked Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Blogger and many other websites in Mainland China.)
姜昆相声中一句惊人之语:你是互联网,我是防火墙

The airwoman: Leader has already fucked.
女飞行员的小品里出现了一句低俗的话:领导已经干了

In an opusculum: How much is a steamed stuffed bun? Fifty cents. (50 Cent Party, whose role is posting comments favorable towards the government policies to skew the public opinion on various Internet message boards)
包子小品中一句:包子多少钱一个?五毛

The widow thanks Zhao Benshang for his donation for her family: Thanks to the Chinese Communist Party and thanks to the government. (Actually there is nothing to do with the Communist Party and the government)
赵本山小品里那个寡妇对赵本山说:感谢党,感谢政府

Google Buzz should get out of Gmail



After a couple of days using Google Buzz, I start to think Buzz is not so nice. I already have facebook and twitter in international SNS, plus Renren (Chinese facebook) and a lot of Chinese twitters, but I never think Buzz is good enough to replace them.

It is disaster to follow some famous guys on Internet. Concider about China having been blocking facebook and twitter, so there is no place to speak freely and safely except Google Buzz. Ten of thousands Chinese Gmail users gather in those famous guys’ Buzz and show their feelings about everything. Usually one Buzz can get more than 400 comments, and most of all have no value for me.

After two days, I am getting tired of Buzz keeping showing the updates. There is one good thing abour Buzz is to turn it off in Gmail, but I still want to keep it, so I just hide it in case of interrpution.

Even though , Buzz still is a good product in SNS. But it just shouldn’t be in Gmail, a lot people use their Gmail to contact their customer and college who don’t need a social network in their email.

The future of Buzz is hard to predict. It may be the next Oukut or Jaiku. It may cost Gmail being blocked in Mainland China, as Gmail is already blocked in Iran. But it is a nice try for Google, keeping Internet moving forward.

Link: my Google Buzz/Google profile

Google Buzz,福兮?祸兮?

早上从twitter上得知Google将在一周之内推出一项在Gmail上的类似twitter的社交服务,不到24小时,从Google Reader的Google官网上看到Google Buzz已经出现了。


从介绍来看,Google Buzz在功能上比Twitter要完善很多,可以直接看图片,视频,而且可以设置自己的分享是公开的还是只给指定者的。可以接连Picasa,filckr,Google Reader和twitter四项服务。

Google Buzz首先是个挖Twitter墙角的东西,好比网易微博能连接新浪微博,在网易微博上可以直接向新浪微博发言一样。微博是需要人气的,用户如果长期用Google Buzz来发tweet,就很可能不再使用twitter原来的服务。考虑到Gmail全球庞大的用户数量,这个微博用户数量是很可观的。

我们可以比照Google Buzz跟QQ邮箱广播,2者最大的差别就是Google是开放的并且融合了多项服务来优化本身,而QQ广播过于局限于QQ邮箱,没有任何创新可言。

Google Buzz对于中国网民来说是一个很好的平台。twitter虽有众多的第三方服务,但有些不是很稳定,保不准哪天就被墙了,而Gmail却是一个很大的避风港。中国网民终于找到一个能自由发言的稳定的平台。

但Gmail会不会由此被GFW封锁呢?这个可能性很大,我想领导们也在慎重考虑,先想好说辞,什么Gmail上有大量的低俗内容或者大量反动任务的煽动等等,然后晃而堂之的封了。但这种局面谁都没有赢家,中国首先丢了面子,作为一个大国,竟然封了一个著名的邮箱服务,外交部长还口口声声说中国互联网是开放的。国外媒体报道将中国封Gmail的事实和“开放“的说辞一对比,地球人都要笑掉大牙。就好象皇帝的新装一样,大家都看见皇帝是不穿衣服的,但皇帝还口口声声说自己的衣服最漂亮。真正受伤的是长期使用Gmail的网民,特别是IT人士。

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Google Buzz对中国的微博客的启示又是很多的,门前国内的微博过于局限在twitter的构架。QQ广播第一个尝了螃蟹,但很明显国内的IT企业无法在创新上跟Google相比,大家都在抄国外的东西,然后稍微本土化改进就说自己创新了。可以想象这种差距会在将来的10年内拉大到网民无法忍受国内产品服务的状况,因为互联网技术更新换代很快,而且每一代比起上一代都有无法超越的优越性。我们可以选择封掉Gmail这个全球最好的邮箱,但我们却失去了了解世界顶尖技术的机会,使我们注定要再次落后。

腾讯微博,迟到的巨作还是滔滔再生

网易微博还在封测之中,国内第4个门户腾讯也传出内测微博了。腾讯跟主流的微博一样给自己的微博启用了t.qq.com的域名,目前只在内部测试。相信不久之后腾讯微博就出山了。














腾讯微博界面,跟其他的微博没什么区别

腾讯早就在3年前就推出了微博客“滔滔”,但是一直没有做好。后来先是跟QQ心情整合,现在又变成了QQ邮箱里的QQ广播。假如腾讯能稍微用点心把滔滔做好,今天的微博早就是腾讯的天下了。
据悉,内部测试版的腾讯微博(t.qq.com)限制字数为140字,有“私信”功能,暂不支持手机平台,不具备图片上传、评论等功能。腾讯微博估计也不太可能玩出什么新花样,大家都抄twitter,水平却都没高过twitter。
然而,腾讯这次要是准备把微博做大了,腾讯微博一出,必然有极大的优势,很可能就此取代新浪微博的领头地位。原因很简单,腾讯有QQ这个客户端的先天优势,其他的微博客目前都还没有桌面客户端。一旦QQ跟微博结合,微博客的即时性功能就完全爆发,从用户发推到受到回复或转发之间的时间差大大缩短,重大事件的传播速度将更快,这点其他没有客户端的微博都无法企及。
twitter目前也走上了第三方应用的道路,像twhirlTweetDeckSeesmic Desktop等,使得twitter用户完全不必打开浏览器就可以使用其全部的功能。所以腾讯微博的前景大好。
腾讯微博一旦成功,不但会成为中国最大的微博客,还有可能把中国最大的社交网站人人(原校内)的部分用户挖走。校内曾经活跃着大量的日志,现在慢慢萎缩成了状态,图片与链接分享三大主流充斥着人人主页。千橡推出的人人桌面就是把IM和时间线整合到了一起。但总体来看人人社交网的价值正受到微博客的冲击。当QQ就能享受跟人人桌面一样的体验时,谁又还会去选择用人人桌面?

凡事必然有利有弊,QQ一旦整合微博客,内存就会变的很可怕。客户端本质上就像一个邮件客户端,不断的接收和上传信息,本身内存就不少了,像twhirl这种很纯粹简单的应用就占了54MB。QQ在潜伏的情况下也用了42MB,2者加在一起有100多MB了,一旦微博出现时间线高峰,然后再同时用QQ进行视频聊天什么的,那么QQ.exe就可能直逼内存大户firefox了。
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如此看来QQ也有不跟腾讯微博整合的必要性,毕竟QQ是腾讯的招牌产品。然而如果只是一味随主流的做微博,腾讯微博不过就是把滔滔改了名字又拿出来骗罢了,这样的微博现在太多了,没有多少吸引力。

QQ影像与QQ空间隐私

腾讯最近不声不响的出了个新产品:QQ影像。用过Google Pisaca的同学马上就觉得腾讯这次又抄袭成功了。同样的界面操作,一样的快捷搜索、图片预览、常用工具三大模块,都支持上传到各自的空间上。不过Google默认给1G的空间,而QQ相册只有500M。

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QQ影像界面

不可否认的是,腾讯抄袭的确很有一套。往往刚出来的产品都很新颖,但又有不少的缺点,然后不断升级改进,一直改到跟它的模仿者差不多的时候,于是我们看到腾讯有一大堆毁誉参半的产品,像QQ旋风,QQlive,QQ影音等等。而腾讯做的最好的大概就是QQ邮箱了,QQ邮箱早已超越网易邮箱坐上国内Email的头把交椅了。腾讯很可能在不久之后就会更新QQ影像。

但我更倾向去用Google Picasa,而不是QQ影像。因为最近有人因为在QQ空间里放黄片被抓了。其中引出网络隐私问题,因为这个被抓的男生QQ空间是只给好友看的,那么网警蜀黍们是怎么看到的呢?腾讯跟百度这些公司都是跟政府一起吃过饭的,我们可以想象腾讯可能把用户信息交给了网络安全部门。但是更多的QQ用户只是上传一些私人的照片,有些人甚至把自己的裸照传到QQ相册上,现在不就等于把自己的裸照给别人看了么?难怪总会有什么大学生高中生自拍照泄漏出来,这个源头不就是那些什么安全部门么。

五毛进军

韩寒的《中国官员必修课之第一讲》暴露了中国五毛党的现状,光甘肃这个不发达的西部省份就有650人的网络评论员,于是从全国上看至少也得超过十万。五毛的实际存在使得外交部长姜瑜的一句名言“中国互联网是开饭的”更加深刻了。
衡阳市党校官网都出现了网络评论员章程,规定了一系列规章制度。我们发现五毛这个叫法现在有点不适合。但如果考虑衡阳不是一个特别发达的地方,如果是上海北京这种大城市,工资肯定要高多了。
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然后看看一些社区里面五毛的真实身份:
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可以想象,网络如果都是自由的,都是网民在发表自己的意见,那么网络是不会有这么的官腔的。希拉里在“自由互联网”演讲中多次提到中国的网络封锁控制行为,其实已经传达出一个很明确的信息:中国作为一个大国,跟越南,北韩,伊朗这种国家一起搞局域网,搞黑客,国际形象已经受损;一个国家如果不坚持自己的原则,多次言行不一,到时候也就禁止发布该语言了。

世界在听希拉里,中国睡着了

美国西部时间上午9点45分,美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿给世界一个自由的互联网的演讲,CNN在线直播权过程。我对比一下中美两国领导人演讲,发现中国人通常都要低头看稿子,而希拉里讲了1个多小时,始终没低头过,也许人家的读稿机比较先进。但效果是毋庸置疑的,希拉里的演说打动了很多人。
希拉里先从一个海地小女孩用手机向互联网求救从而获救的例子,谈到世界互联网现状,有人用它造福人民,有人用它黑客攻击,有的国家封锁网络言论(中国作为典型网络封锁国家被提到至少3次),还有的阻碍宗教人士,把美国的普世观念跟互联网相结合,认为美国在道义上有责任支持互联网的自由,而且比较兴奋的是提到美国要帮助那些被封锁的网民翻墙了。听此,推特上一片沸腾。
我们可以说希拉里又拿美国的人权,普世精神的价值观来说教了。希拉里也说到:我现在说的话,很有可能在世界的某一处就被删掉了。新华社估计要通宵出通稿要谴责美国干涉中国内政,强调中国互联网是“开饭”的等等。但是事实是会有越来越多的人会在墙内惊醒,从而加入到翻墙的大军之中。
我们政府一直在说网络必须要审查,监控,因为有色情,有危害国家的言论。但互联网本身不会产生这种东西,它只是一种工具,问题是在于使用它的人。现在我们不反思情色与国外质疑之声的根源,而是在不顾一切阻止人们去得到这些消息,从根本上是违背互联网的原则。
希拉里虽多次提到中国互联网的不自由,却强调目前还是要跟中国交流,表达的不是很自信,因为中国人睡着了。当演说结束,连一直跟在中国封锁网络之后的越南人都站出来向希拉里提问,而中国的声音消失在地球上时,只有推特上一群人站出来表达了他们要freedom的需求。
我个人并不认为希拉里的话能对中国的互联网起到多大的改变,因为被block了。但翻墙之势是不能阻挡的。
It is not just about freedom, it is about what kind of world we live in. ——Hillary Clinton