Hand-drawn by Jian Shuo Wang. Created by Microsoft Paint...
西雅图美丽的夜晚。一个男孩正在与比尔·盖兹共进晚餐。这个男孩子参加了微软嵌入式程序设计大赛，并且获得全球前十。世界首富亲自为这些年轻人庆祝。所有知道的人都在赞叹。
南京暴雨的下午。一个男孩在雨中骑自行车。非常的犹豫，不知道应该骑的快一点还是慢一点。他边骑边计算怎样淋的雨会少。他非常苦恼，不知道怎样才好。所有听到的人都在大笑。
这两个人都是Chris。东南大学软件学院学生会主席，计算机网络协会主席，学校算法大赛一等奖，学校网站COO，Intel实习生，Ericsson实习生，微软实习生。将来的微软员工。
你信不信，如果他当年没有在雨中看似迂腐的思考，今天他不会有机会与比尔·盖兹共进晚餐？我信。
注1：Chris说，“刘老师，我还小啊，不能捧杀啊”。所以请所有仰慕他的男孩子且莫联系他，女孩子有纪律的排队联系。谢谢。:-)
注2：想和Chris一起工作吗？试试技术服务专员和开发咨询工程师的职位。
The move by Sanrio to license Hello Kitty MP3 sales at a convenience store raises two important questions. First, does this herald the entrance of convenience stores into the consumer electronics marketplace? Kedi says that should the promotion prove successful, it would introduce other products geared at young, successful consumers. There is at least one Shanghai chain - FamilyMart - whose parent in Taiwan sells computers and TVs at its outlets on the island, so a move in that direction is not inconceivable. But Shanghai's appliance trade association is more skeptical about the stores' ability to handle things like warranty service. Simple electronics - MP3/4 players - maybe.
Second, and I may be displaying my own warped understanding of romance here, but are there really 1000 people for whom the perfect Valentine's Day gift is a 358-yuan MP3 in the shape of a cartoon character? I do have to admit, however, that making users tickle the cat's feet to change the volume is inspired.
Supermarkets in Yantai, Shandong, employed 2.5 liter bottles of Pepsi as loss leaders as a means of tempting customers into their stores during the Spring Festival shopping rush. Normally 5.6 yuan, just above supply costs of 5.52 yuan, one supermarket lowered its advertised price to 4.9 yuan, causing a competitor to drop to 4.8. The supermarkets' supply contract with Pepsi prohibits this kind of price slashing - stores are not allowed to sell below cost - because it wreaks havoc on the company's distribution network: wholesalers buying from supermarkets and things of that nature.
Turns out this is not anything unusual; apparently it's just one of the hazards of doing business in China. Stores take a gamble that Pepsi won't punish them too hard, and all Pepsi does is halt supplies for a short time.
Other major brands often find themselves in similar situations. Moutai liquor has enough brand cachet to prop up retail prices, and China Business says that Coke periodically has to cut off supplies to no less than Carrefour when the store tries to pull something like this.
In a move that will certainly be welcomed by European backpackers headed for Tibet, KLM will start flying from Amsterdam to Chengdu in May of this year. Passengers will be able to fly non-stop from Sichuan to Europe twice a week starting on 28 May. This is the first move by a European or American carrier to open a route to a second-tier Chinese city; Singapore Airlines has had the jump on carriers from those two continents for a while. International airlines are reportedly champing at the bit as they wait for China's domestic airline sector to be deregulated. Could this move to open routes in smaller cities be the start of some strategic jockeying for position?
Shanda promoted its new EZPod entertainment system in a 20 million yuan TV ad campaign over the Spring Festival holiday season. Continuing the recent trend of web companies advertising on TV, Shanda ran spots on CCTV 1 & 2, Shanghai Oriental, and Hunan Cable pushing the "broadband remote control." The spending came after rumors that Shanda CEO Chen Tianqiao would sell off his interest in Sina to raise cash for his struggling company, and more recent rumors put Shanda's available cash at 2 billion yuan. That should be enough to cover the multimillion-dollar ad blitz that Shanda is planning using to promote the EZPod and related products this year.
Also in the news this week:
These summaries were collected from the The China Perspective, which covers major business news and trends in the China marketplace.
a hydraulic, physical representation designed by Bill Phillips in the 1920s that simulates the macroeconomic flow of money in a national economy (moniac = Monetary National Income Automatic Computer). water is pumped into the top of the machine & then filtered down though a central column & then through pipes & chambers. the amount of money is represented by how much water is in a tank. the net flow of the system gathers at the bottom & is pumped back to the top to restart the cycle. different variables can be changed by tuning valves & other piping. [nzier.org.nz & inc.com|via kirchersociety.org]
The magazine is distributed in Hong Kong, but most of the contents can be found online at destinationprd.com, a website produced by Danwei contributors.
a treemap visualization based on the huge flickr image collection. the application takes any form/length of text input & generates a collage with images that have related concepts & affect structure.
conceptually, flickr is considered as an enormous pool of memories of people. the system uses natural language processing, concept reasoning, & textual affect sensing techniques to collect all the related memories. see also flickrland collage & flickrland visualization. [mit.edu|thnkx James & Edward]
Earlier this week we launched MSN Search and Win. It’s a contest that will be running through April and you have the opportunity to win some pretty great prizes. I like it because it’s easy. As you search on our main site (or through the flash interface) you have the ability to win prizes. If you’re not interested in the prizes then you can ignore the ads.Why are we doing it? Well there certainly are a number of people who have pondered our motives, but when it comes down to it we have made a lot of improvements over the past year with our algo so people should notice a difference in relevance and a marketing campaign like MSN Search and Win is a good way to encourage people to try us again so they can see the improvements for themselves.
Since you’ve all been doing extra searches on our site due to the contest I am sure that you’ve seen the new UI on MSN Search that we rolled out yesterday afternoon. We’ve traded in the blue for a steely grey. Other changes include a longer search box and hit highlighting in the title. On the first, we’ve listened to your feedback and on the second, trust us, it makes your job as a searcher easier. Thanks for the feedback and keep it coming. Personally, I like the change, but I’ll continue to search from live.com – I can’t do without my Seattle Traffic Map.
Brady Forrest, MSN Search PM
the waiting is over.
