Archive for September, 2009
One Success Factor of Social Network Services
I was always wondering what’s the essence of social networks. How to start a new social network service? What’s a successful social network service? This summer is a singing season in China. Two series of singing competition shows were lively broadcasted during the summer by two TV stations. One is more for teenagers and more [...]
Install pygtk
First, download gtk from http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html I downloaded the all-in-one bundle http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.16/gtk+-bundle_2.16.6-20090911_win32.zip unzip the file to c:\gtk Then, I modify windows environment variable PATH by appending C:\gtk\bin to it. (Right click “My Computer”, click “Properties”, “Advanced”, “Environment Variables”, edit “path”) Go to http://www.pygtk.org/downloads.html, download the latest version pycairo, pygobject, pygtk. (I am using python 2.6). [...]
Your Twitter Follower Statistics
Check your twitter statistics at TwitterCounter They even provide an API http://twittercounter.com/pages/api just try curl “http://twittercounter.com/api/?username=your_twitter_account” the statistics for me was generated 1 month ago. You can see your rank. Also, you can see top 100 twitter users here http://twittercounter.com/pages/100 Related Sites: http://twitterank.com/ http://twitalyzer.com/twitalyzer/
Luke Wroblewski’s blog about Facebook Design
Design at Facebook http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?879 There are a lot of commonly appreciated points such as “Feedback is good. Get as much as you can and as early as possible. Helps save time.” and don’t fall in love with your design. Some other more unique points: “Writing front-end code ties design into the engineering culture of the [...]
multitasking? you simply cannot
A recent Stanford study shows that people who do things simultaneously are paying a big mental price. They get distracted by everything and show less capability to accomplish tasks. This study is especially focused on media multitaskers, i.e. those people who browse, IM, write emails simultaneously. This reminds me a blog I read earlier this [...]
