Nextaris是一个什么样的服务？很难说。因为Nextaris的功能实在是太杂了：搜索、新闻、网摘、相册、Blog、文件共享、组群，几乎所有流行的应用都可以在Nextaris里找到。



试用了一会Nextaris里的大部分功能。这才发现，Nextaris功能虽多却也没有杂乱无章的感觉。它所有的功能都围绕着网络信息的管理。不管是地址、文字、图片或者其它各种类型的文件及其所包含的内容都可以保存到Nextaris所免费提供的100M空间中。你可以对这些信息进行分类、管理、查阅、存档；跟特定的组群或者用户分享；或者直接把指定内容发布在互联网上。



所有的网络信息作为纵轴，而自我、好友/组群和整个互联网形成三个信息传播的层次。至少从结构上来说，Nextaris的确基本上作到了“All-in-One Personal Information Exchange”。



不过，可能也正是因为功能太多，使得Nextaris中的很多部分都作的不够完善。而从用户角度来说，初次使用该服务也多少有些让人无从下手。

Posted by Susan Wojcicki, Vice President, Product Management



Today we learned that the Authors Guild filed a lawsuit to try to stop Google Print. We regret that this group chose to sue us over a program that will make millions of books more discoverable to the world -- especially since any copyright holder can exclude their books from the program. What’s more, many of Google Print’s chief beneficiaries will be authors whose backlist, out of print and lightly marketed new titles will be suggested to countless readers who wouldn’t have found them otherwise.



Let's be clear: Google doesn’t show even a single page to users who find copyrighted books through this program (unless the copyright holder gives us permission to show more). At most we show only a brief snippet of text where their search term appears, along with basic bibliographic information and several links to online booksellers and libraries. Here’s what an in-copyright book scanned from a library looks like on Google Print:

































Google respects copyright. The use we make of all the books we scan through the Library Project is fully consistent with both the fair use doctrine under U.S. copyright law and the principles underlying copyright law itself, which allow everything from parodies to excerpts in book reviews. (Here's an article by one of the many legal scholars who have weighed in on Google Print.)



Just as Google helps you find sites you might not have found any other way by indexing the full text of web pages, Google Print, like an electronic card catalog, indexes book content to help users find, and perhaps buy, books. This ability to introduce millions of users to millions of titles can only expand the market for authors’ books, which is precisely what copyright law is intended to foster.

过去一段时间，还真的有越来越多的创业团队开始了自己的Blog历程，所以这不是当时我个人的一个愿望,而是一种真正的社会需求。所以看到越来越多的人说"每个CEO都应当有自己的Blog"，应当不再是夸张的说法，至少Emile 就是这样做的。虽然她的Blog更多谈的是生活追求而不是自己的商业PR，也同样是社会资本积累。他日回头看看今天Xuer, Adam, Emile, Xiaowei, Hengge等人的Blog，创业的艰辛和心路历程都会是未来“百万美元宝贝”的最佳故事素材。:)