今天从各个渠道汇集到Anothr信息管道的一个热点是：全球风险投资在2006年达到了五年来的新高，风险投资家们在去年全年向3416个项目注入了255亿美金的资本，为创业创新投下了新的赌注。PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Financial 以及 National Venture Capital Association 共同发布了这些数据。
中国市场当仁不让是最热点之一，当然还有印度和以色列等。中国虽然稍有创新技术(Ji Shu)，但是有用户基数(Ji Shu)，所以同样也狂吸了超过20亿美元的风险资本（尽管在中国风险资本Venture Capital和Private Equity的界面很模糊）。
2007年，这股势头是否还会延续，至少在资本的承诺趋势上还没有看到退热变化。而随着2.0 力量的消化，也许会涌现更多的并购机会，所以新资本的投入也许会有所放缓。当然传统行业在亚洲的崛起，还会从地域上拉动全球的资本，也许这是一个关键环节，成或者败都在这里，而不是在互联网领域。
the Doomsday Clock, the graphic symbol of the world’s proximity to nuclear annihilation, has been (minimally?) redesigned. the clock is the emblem of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the advocacy group formed in 1945 by scientists from the Manhattan Project. the redesign coincides with the group’s decision to move the clock forward from 7 to 5 minutes before midnight, or metaphorical doomsday.
see also bar countdown & ambient clock & colhour clock & dot clock & last clock.
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The two organizations we are working with in these programs are ninemillion.org and Team Seattle. Ninemillion.org is a United Nations led campaign providing education and sports programs for nine million refugee youth around the world, and Team Seattle is the most successful motorsports charity in the US, racing to benefit Seattle's Children's Hospital. By partnering with these organizations, we get to be a part of some great efforts to help children at a global level, and right here in our community.
Team Seattle - teamseattle.live.com
A lot of us live in the Seattle area, and we're privileged to have access to one of the top children's hospitals in the country. That kind of care comes at a high cost, however, and not everyone can afford to pay, so Team Seattle has stepped up to raise money for Children's Hospital's uncompensated care fund, ensuring that kids get access to world class care regardless of their ability to pay. In ten years of racing, they have raised over $2.2M for Children's Hospital, and this year they are aiming to raise over $500,000.
For our part, Live Search is sponsoring the Team Seattle race car at this year's 24-hours of Daytona race, and to complement that sponsorship, we have created the teamseattle.live.com site, where every search you do adds an incremental $1 to our donation (see site for details) to Children's Hospital. (As you might imagine, we are also pretty excited to have the Live Search logo painted on the side of such a cool car!)
Ninemillion.org - click4thecause.live.com
Live Search is a global business, so we wanted a way to help kids all over the world who are in need. Supporting Ninemillion.org and their mission to help 9 million refugees really stood out as a great way to make a impact. Each search at click4thecause.live.com results in a financial donation from Microsoft to provide help with education programs to the refugee kids around the globe. More info on ninemillion.org’s work with these youth can be found at their Windows Live Spaces blog.
In addition to the money raised from the searches, Microsoft is also donating online advertising and editorial space across MSN and microsoft.com to raise awareness of the relief effort.
Add them to the Internet Explorer 7 Search Box
Both of these charitable programs run through March, so to create more efficient giving, you can add these search pages to your IE7 Search Providers list, and make one your default. Adding a search provider in IE7 is pretty straight forward. Just go to the dropdown menu in the IE7 Search Box:
..and use the Find more providers option to get to the page that explains how to do it. For teamseattle.live.com and click4thecause.live.com you should follow the instruction in the yellow-shaded Create Your Own box on the right.
---- Sebastian Gard, Live Search Product Management Team
small, unique icons that visual identify the different commenters of a blog, generated out of their 9-block IP addresses.
see also visual ID icons & document icons & 1000 icons.
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