Wired 13.05: The Wired 40

They're masters of technology and innovation. They're global thinkers driven by strategic vision. They're nimbler than Martha Stewart's PR team. They're The Wired 40. 10. EBAY The Buyer's Seller's Market Last year: 5 Once the world's biggest yard sale, eBay has become the epitome of ecommerce: a global marketplace responsible last year for $34.2 billion worth of auctions and fixed-price sales. With no inventory costs, eBay generates net margins of 24 percent. Meanwhile, the company's PayPal division is becoming the standard for online payments. With 56 million active users, eBay has a big say in what gets sold online and how we pay for it. Challenge: Stop taking sellers for granted. After recent fee increases, 7,000 eBay stores closed. Opportunity: China. EBay must do better there than it did in Japan, where it got spanked by Yahoo! in 2001 and beat a retreat.

Google Search History

For the first time in Google's history, a sign in link appears at the top-right corner on the Google home page. I'm curious that when this would become tagged and deli.cio.used. More readings: Reuters: Google Rolls Out Test of Personalized Search Tool AP: Google Launches Personal History Feature Micro Persuasion: Google Search History Foreshadows Google Tags

Tiger unleashed.

Google: leonardo da vinci

4 Years

Today among a gang of formal Yifei employees I went to he's house and paid homeage to Chen. Today is the very birthday of Chen. People sang the birthday song to Chen in tears. The day he passed away, was the 4th anniversary of my first meeting my wife at Yifei HQ at Summit Center. Yifei HQ at Summit Center was officially operational on April 9th, 2001.

Yifei Chen: A kind man with his big vision

Despite all criticisms as an entrepreneur and a boss, Chen has an artist's faith to build a world of vision. As the man who headed my first job, he gave full trust, opportunity, support and credit to people like me, my wife and people who became top designs years later. Chen recruited a few guys from SJTU to build yifei.com in late 1998. This job turned a CS novice into a senior engineer in the Internet industry who later worked at Microsoft and eBay. A KPMG secretary went to job interview for Chen's secretary in 2001, but was recruited as an editor of yifei.com and soon a feature editor of Vision Magzine. Chen sent these rookies abroad for National-Geography-like missions to build them up. She is working for Vogue now. With all respect, R.I.P., Chen. 著名导演、画家陈逸飞因胃出血刚刚在上海华山医院去世，享年59岁。据悉，在陈逸飞 死亡记录卡上，显示 是今天早上8点44分死亡，死因是上消化道大出血。 导演陈逸飞上海去世 新浪

MSN Messenger Version 7.0

It's official now after 7 months' beta. Download Here

Allizom: Post Mozilla

http://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey:Name_And_Version http://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey:Home_Page April Fool!

Google Gulp

From FAQ:

Q: Well, shouldn't Auto-Drink™ be default-off? A: You mean we should cripple a perfectly useful feature just because of a little bad PR?

At Google our mission is to organize the world's information and make it useful and accessible to our users. But any piece of information's usefulness derives, to a depressing degree, from the cognitive ability of the user who's using it. That's why we're pleased to announce Google Gulp (BETA)™ with Auto-Drink™ (LIMITED RELEASE), a line of "smart drinks" designed to maximize your surfing efficiency by making you more intelligent, and less thirsty. Think fruity. Think refreshing. Think a DNA scanner embedded in the lip of your bottle reading all 3 gigabytes of your base pair genetic data in a fraction of a second, fine-tuning your individual hormonal cocktail in real time using our patented Auto-Drink™ technology, and slamming a truckload of electrolytic neurotransmitter smart-drug stimulants past the blood-brain barrier to achieve maximum optimization of your soon-to-be-grateful cerebral cortex. Plus, it's low in carbs! And with flavors ranging from Beta Carroty to Glutamate Grape, you'll never run out of ways to quench your thirst for knowledge. How to get Gulped? You can pick up your own supply of this "limited release" product simply by turning in a used Gulp Cap at your local grocery store. How to get a Gulp Cap? Well, if you know someone who's already been "gulped," they can give you one. And if you don't know anyone who can give you one, don't worry – that just means you aren't cool. But very, very (very!) soon, you will be. Learn more: From forest to freezer : history 4 great flavors : product details Frequently asked questions

Gmail turns 1

On the eve of Gmail's one-year birthday, our engineers were toiling away furiously. Notes scribbled all over the walls. Complex calculations on napkins and empty pizza boxes. Millions of M&Ms. The result?... starting today, we're beginning the roll-out of our new and top secret Infinity+1 storage plan. The key features are: *Write, don't worry. You want to stop caring about storage. We want to keep giving you more. Today, and beyond. *The gift that keeps on giving. 1162.391493(numbers ticking up) megabytes of storage (and counting) for every user. *No complicated equations. No tough algorithms. Just this one graph: