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My blog has moved to http://www.BaliOnWeb.com . Most of articles are also moved to new site. This is retired at this moment.
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Finally, I delivered my first talk. Kind of excited, you can imagine. :-) PPT can be found @ http://cid-0c5963e0b1a0be5d.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/PM%20Talk.ppt Let me know what you think of it. Update 7/30/2009 This post has been moved to http://www.balionweb.com/my-pm-talk-in-sjtu.htm
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All great designs come from deep understanding to customers. In my case, I'd like to design the email service for information workers(IW) as I am one of them. Basically they are hired to get things done. Modern projects, or tasks in smaller granularity,
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Nowadays software is getting so complex that it needs incredibly more and more people to build it. For example, there are 9000 engineers working on Vista simultaneously. In certain sense, you can call that it is a labor-intensive industry. Ideally, it
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Fast Company recently published its version of the world’s top 50 most innovative companies. Although I would question why Intel is among top10, what surprised me most is the fact that Hulu is listed #3. I know there might be political things about the
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As to the complexity level of problems, developers in Microsoft, who deal with coding, are probably taking one of the most challenging jobs in the world. But another engineering role, program manager, is not easier in any sense. Before I explain why,
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Today I got a mail from lakequincy.com , saying: “Hi Bill, I noticed that you were never able to plug the Lake Quincy Media ad tags into your site. Are you still interested in earning revenue from displaying ads targeted to Microsoft developers? If so,
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This is also one of my half-completed ideas years ago. It was recalled recently by two stories: Stories #1 : One of my team mates lost his Outlook email archive due to a mistaken operation. He is very upset because all of his emails in past two years
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Cuil , another so-called Google killer, is at its last gasp . I just knew it. I am not predicting present. Cuil is not the first one, and apparently not the last. For upcoming cuils, here are my words. Brand. Brand. Brand. For many people, word of Google
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That FB app( http://apps.facebook.com/funnyqa/ ) is totally out of curiosity about how FB developer platform is working. Roughly it is like this: Get started cost -- ~10$/year for a website space; need a PC of course Technology platform -- LAMP. Website
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Hi, my dear friends, Happy New Chinese Year! First of all, a small quiz to you: Can you guess what it means? Let me explain it a bit. The pic is actually a Chinese word 福 written in a piece of square-shaped paper, and then rotate 180 degree. 福 means happiness,
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Back to not too long ago, I had a half-completed advertising idea related to social shopping. Now I post it here to collect more feedbacks. I call it HappyDog. (Just a name, not related to that DogFood widely used within Microsoft J ) Problems As everybody
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It is only customers who pay dollars as your revenue and enable your read this post comfortably at your office. Almost every company considers “Customer-oriented” as one of their key values although they can be expressed in various ways. It is “ Passion
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< I have to cook this page with a mix of Chinese and English words. Please move your mouse to top right now if you are not feeling comfortable. :D> It takes me about 1.5 hr to commute(in subway or shuttle) to office, which means I have ~3 hours
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It is Facebook’s heyday probably. Every tiny breath of Facebook will attract lots of discussion and review among major media and tech blog. It is successful to some extent if you don’t care its current sheet too much. But can we mirror Facebook’s popularity
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