The Rise of Baidu (That is Chinese for Google)

Indeed. A year after the picnic, in 1999, Mr. Li founded his own search company in China, naming it Baidu. Today, Baidu has a market value of $3 billion and operates the fourth-most trafficked Web site in the world. And Baidu is doing what no other Internet company has been able to do: clobbering Google and Yahoo in its home market.

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A Video Business Model Ready to Move Beyond Beta - NYTimes (Subscription)

Betting against Steve Jobs has not been a sound proposition in recent years... (iTV) does draw people closer to a world where inexpensive liquid crystal displays will moot the long-running debate about convergence because people will just plug in their cable or Internet or Wi-Fi and do what they please.

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911 Anniversary on Google Video

the film "7 Days in September" on Google Video about 911."7 Days in September" is a unique piece of filmmaking - a collaborative work that weaves together the images and stories of 28 individuals on the day of and week after 9/11.

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fk, super luxurious government buildings in China! 143 pics

China is a developing country, but the government buildings in China are super luxurious. the people living in low-level, very poor and great inequalities. the officials working in luxurious.
there are 143 pictures in this pic set.(chinese)

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Google china's new office,for Google fans 112 Pics

Google China's new office building, like Googleplex in Mountain View, California. well-stocked, funny, colorful and amazing.snack rooms,Google Caf
é, massage room and so on.
These pictures show the Google China new office.some googlers are playing billiards, they are happy. Great google, lucky Googlers.

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The Wisdom of Ants

What humans can learn from social insects.

At this summer's International Union for the Study of Social Insects—July 30 through Aug. 4 in Washington, D.C. —almost 1,000 scientists gathered, as they do every four years, to report on what they'd found after, well, going to the ant (and the bee and the wasp and a half-dozen other orders). To be around so many like-minded social insect—studiers is a departure for this bunch (or rather, colony), who are accustomed to having to justify what they do for a living: When in mixed company, they can be overheard saying things like, "But ants represent 40 percent of the biomass in many forests" or "Without bees, agriculture would be nearly impossible."

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Blogger:Increase Registration by Simplifying Designs and Explaining Value

Blogger came to Adaptive Path to determine how it could convert more new site visitors into Blogger users.Since growth was one of Blogger's key objectives, managers wanted to identify why sign-ups weren't increasing as much as projected and find out what they could do to correct the problem. Specifically, Blogger wanted to increase the number of vi

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