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最近两个团队有点可比性。其中之一A团队，见面后几乎每天给我短信，希望能够再次见面。而上次会面后大家的共识是到他们九月份第一个产品发布后再看，所以我有点不太明白频繁见面的含义所在。我尽量促成他们参与一些聚会场合来搭建于其他业务的合作机会，他们反倒并不热心；而另一个B团队，认识个把月，也是创新的模式。则没有提出类似要求，而是聪明地把我加入了他的Twitter跟踪对象，当然我也相应地跟踪了他的Twitter，所以我得以“窥视”到他们的动态，暗中感受到他们自我的提升过程。

我猜想A团队比较急于融资，他们也有这样的暗示。我当日偏偏泼了些冷水给他们：其实越早融资价值越低。大概他们没有理解，对于早期的项目，基本上没有太大的可评估价值（创意是不值钱的拉），此时估值全凭一张嘴，谈不上科学性。但是随着产品/服务的推进，用户带来的“参与”价值会被考虑到投资决策中，对做Valuation也有了一定的依据。今天在中国靠概念融资的可能几乎没有，因为大多数的VC正在PE中，所以对创业团队，如果能够在艰苦中求得生存余地，越晚融资，对自己越有利，也能够更好地保护自己的权益。如果用户在手，收入在望，还是吊吊投资者的胃口更好。其实反倒这样，投资者会趋风而来，谈判的优势地位也有微妙变化了。

最近市场上一些去年融到资团队正在销声匿迹中，我还没有时间去和他们沟通发生了什么，但是肯定在煎熬中。过早地融资也许恰好是无法最大实现团队想法的绊脚石，而即使有新一轮的融资可能甚至导致团队的重新洗牌，让初始团队无所适从，这也是资本的“邪恶”之处。所以，急吼吼要被投资的时候，可以冷静下来，检视一下自己的产品/业务以及客户，也许会说“等等看”。耐得住不被投资，也许会更成功。

an incredible collection of abstract real life Polaroid photos made by Grant Hamilton. note that without an exact camera viewfinder, some images are more difficult to take than one might expect.

[link: sxseventy.com & flickr.com|via swissmiss.typepad.com]

a true wearable visualization for the data addicts between us: a measuring tape used as a belt (or a belt used as a measuring tape?).

[link: ecal.ch]

The past 3 months we’ve been working feverishly on the next version of WordPress, 2.3. Today we’re releasing the first beta of 2.3 and we’re hoping the more adventurous and savvy among you will help us test it. Some of the features of 2.3 include plugin and core update notification, built-in tags support, faster javascript, and [...]

　　据网友爆料，有个开源软件社区 v2ex.com 的包周广告位以百元价格挂出，５分钟内就被人抢购。本人对此半信半疑，立即进去 v2ex.com 首页查看，仔细浏览 [ V2EX 开始尝试投放 Alimama ]，发现此言确实不假，而且得知其实际的情况是３分钟！（3 小时 14 分钟前 -17:31Livid 楼主　发言，3 小时 11 分钟前 -17:34wwccss 地球，从广告位通过审核－17:31 到售出 17:34，仅３分钟不到！！！）这个广告位的当前销售情况是已无卖了，要再等１周后才会有１周的广告位。关于注册阿里妈妈、发布广告位等，烦请诸位看阿里妈妈实战(1) 现在开始个人网站网赚征途，本文下方成也有相应链结，本文就不再赘述了。(乔东 慢客 slowke.com)
　　由此看来，只要真正有流量、活跃的社区，肯定会受各种买家的青睐。从V2EX.COM介绍可以了解到，其每天近万ＩＰ，ＡＬＥＸＡ排名在１万３，ＰＡＧＥＲＡＮＫ为５；进入网站查看，各种会员的发言也相当踊跃，这么看来，确实算是比较活跃、健康、正常的网站。如果下次他的广告位再次释出(该站长承诺10.10前不调价)，不出意外可能会制造出多轮的抢购。不过这样，只能给最先发现该网站且守在电脑前的买家机会。如果某个网站有多人都想购买，不知阿里妈妈能否推出广告位拍卖的功能（就是说在卖家除定价后，还可以指定是否有拍卖期，而在拍卖期的那几天内，有钱的买家也有机会拿到位置。这样的结果可是双赢：买家拿到位置、站长拿到好的收益。）呢，给那些愿意出更多钱的买家一个机会（编辑制造：”多少钱我都不在乎，关键是位置、位置、位置！”），有钱的买家不一定有时间天天守在那抢广告位啊？( 乔东 慢客 slowke.com)
·相关文章：
+阿里妈妈实战(1) 现在开始个人网站网赚征途+支付宝１０００万广告费用活动页面
·参考信息：
1. www.v2ex.com V2EX 开源年轻人社区
2. 阿里妈妈站长免费注册页面 http://www.alimama.com/membersvc/member/register.htm
3. 支付宝１０００万广告费用活动页面 http://www.alimama.com/membersvc/promotion/buyerAlipay.htm
4. 阿里妈妈实战(1) 现在开始个人网站网赚征途
5. 乔东·慢客–互联网博客http://www.slowke.com/boke/internet_2007-08-28_51.html
·V2EX.com广告位的实际交易情况：
买家
成交价格
投放时间
交易状态
东邪
100.00
2007-09-13-2007-09-19
等待投放
underone
100.00
2007-09-06-2007-09-12
等待投放
东邪
100.00
2007-08-30-2007-09-05
等待投放
·V2EX.com 网站的相关情况：
网站名：
V2EX
广告位名称：
V2EX.com 顶部
广告位尺寸：
468×60 文字广告/图片广告
日独立 IP [...]

Heading into the Search Engine Strategies (SES) conference in San Jose last week, I'd been at Yahoo! just over a week. The four-day summer event was a welcome respite to my new gig and certainly to some of my colleagues who were beginning to feel a little stuffed in their cubes and meeting rooms. We all headed down to the San Jose Convention Center to connect with our users, share the hot trends in the industry and learn a thing or two from the experts in the field. My first SES experience was pretty successful overall, so I thought I'd share a few takeaways for those who couldn't make it...

Memorable Delivery
Mikkel deMib Svendsen is a resident authority on advanced problems with frames, dynamic pages, Flash, cloaking, etc., but it was his wry humor and flamboyant delivery of search engine fundamentals (content, link and spiders) that roused even the most avid snoozers at the "Fun with Dynamic Web Sites" panel on Tuesday.

Trend That Piqued My Interest
Personalization and Web 2.0
P10n will change the way search engines rank the results and users look at them.

• Jonathan Mendez's visual research data in "Personalization, User Data & Search" on Monday showed user scanning is more scattered with personalized results and varies with chunking. Also, link popularity and the emergence of thematic "buzz" sites greatly extend the role of links in SEO. Check out Online Marketing Blog for more details.
• Vanessa Fox and Amit Kumar in the Web 2.0 session on Wednesday revealed that, while the user generated content and community sharing are the hallmarks of Web 2.0, AJAX (link sharing problem) or content design frameworks like CSS may not always be the right choice as they can be search engine unfriendly.

Standout Sessions
Sessions like "Organic Listings" and "Meet the Crawlers" moderated by Danny Sullivan, aimed to brainstorm the unresolved questions in the SEO community: copyright recognition, content copying, crawl frequency, and duplicate content problem. While there is no clear panacea in the continuously evolving world of search engines and web technologies, there are some common ways to troubleshoot these problems: reviewing Robots.txt regularly and using Site Explorer, Sitemap and the Dynamic Urls tab in Site Explorer.

Overall, the conference was quite the experience for a Yahoo! first-timer. I had the chance to meet several of you as we flitted across the main hall and hung around the various coffee tables and long restroom queues. I'd like to keep the conversation going, so hope to see you at another industry event soon.

Sharad Verma
Yahoo! Search

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