links to visit when you have time

进入第二轮的66个项目中，分属生物医药、云计算和移动互联网、清洁能源和技术、物联网和智能电网、其他交叉科学类部分媒体报道：北美创业大赛，66团队成功晋级，海外华人创业涨潮（12/12千人计划网首页头条） http://www.1000plan.org/qrjh/article/11002百多项目赶搭中国经济高速列车 http://www.chinanews.com.cn/cj/2010/11-17/2661334.shtml
千人计划-"赢在21世纪"北美高层次人才创业团队大赛举行 http://www.1000plan.org/qrjh/article/10125
「赢在21世纪」已吸引逾百华裔团体参赛 http://dailynews.sina.com/gb/news/usa/uslocal/singtao/20101116/08212001885.html
千人计划官网，"千人计划"张光志：鼓励海外高层次人才创业，http://www.1000plan.org/qrjh/article/8473
千人计划官网，"赢在21世纪"北美高级人才创业大赛启动，http://www.1000plan.org/qrjh/article/8401
千人计划官网 赢在21世纪 苏州招才引智网罗全球高新项目，http://www.1000plan.org/qrjh/article/9020
千人计划官网-“赢在21世纪”北美高层次人才创业团队大赛举行 http://www.1000plan.org/qrjh/article/10125
北美创业大赛探营,来自北美十五州,覆盖五大产业- 百多项目赶搭中国经济高速列车 http://dailynews.sina.com/gb/news/usa/sinaus/su/20101116/14512002291.html
中新社：北美创业大赛 百多项目赶搭中国经济高速列车 http://www.chinanews.com.cn/cj/2010/11-17/2661334.shtml
「赢在21世纪」已吸引逾百华裔团体参赛 http://dailynews.sina.com/gb/news/usa/uslocal/singtao/20101116/08212001885.html
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/cj/2010/11-16/2659124.shtml
千人计划官网，“赢在21世纪”北美高级人才创业大赛启动 http://www.1000plan.org/qrjh/article/8401
欧美同学会 http://www.wrsa.net/36/2010/10/08/22@10275.htm
侨胞视频报道 http://video.usqiaobao.com/2010-10/06/content_586371.htm
http://news.uschinapress.com/2010-10/05/content_582896.htm
“赢在21世纪” 北美高层次人才创业大赛4日在硅谷正式启动
http://news.sina.com.cn/o/2010-10-06/103418195688s.shtml
侨报：http://www.chinapressusa.com/2010-10/05/content_583011.htm
新浪网“赢在21世纪”北美高层次人才创业大赛在美国硅谷启动
http://dailynews.sina.com/gb/news/usa/sinaus/su/20101005/15191881387.html
新华社：http://news.163.com/10/1005/15/6I8A3KIK00014JB5.html
http://www.tianjinwe.com/rollnews/sh/201010/t20101005_1980979.html
http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/society/2010-10/05/c_12631400.htm
中新网http://www.chinanews.com.cn/lxsh/2010/10-06/2569997.shtml
KTSF mandarin http://www.ktsf.com/share/news/KTSF_Video_Player.asp?playMode=2&clip=m100410a.flv
         cantonese http://www.ktsf.com/share/news/KTSF_Video_Player.asp?playMode=2&clip=c100410a.flv
“赢在21世纪” 北美高层次人才创业大赛 http://www.dingding.tv/bbs/read.php?tid=2210&page=1

清华新闻网 http://news.tsinghua.edu.cn/new/readnews.php?id=23874
清华校友网 http://www.tsinghua.org.cn/alumni/infoSingleArticle.do?articleId=10053966&columnId=35223
北加州清华新闻 http://tsinghua-norcalnews.blogspot.com/

article: China Tech IPOs Soar

blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/12/09/china-tech-ipos-soar/
dec. 09, 2010

 by REBECCA FANNIN 

I was at a holiday party recently for DCM, a well-known venture firm in the Valley that has seen a series of IPOs from among its China portfolio—e-commerce retailer and bookseller Dangdang and automotive website BitAuto as the latest examples—when I was asked once again. Why don’t you raise a venture fund? No, really.

I’ve always been terrible at math so I figure anything that has to do with high finance is better left to the numerically gifted. But all joking aside, this isn’t the first time the suggestion has been made. Maybe I do have a knack for picking promising entrepreneurs and their startups to profile—though I never invest in these startups myself and don’t offer investment advice.

Just this week alone, three venture-backed Chinese tech startups I wrote about in my book Silicon Dragon—e-commerce retailer Dangdang, video sharing site Tudou and an energy savings producer LatticePower—are marking major milestones. Each is on their way to being the talk of Wall Street as investment prospects: Beijing-based Dangdang for raising $272 million in an IPO and seeing its opening share price soar, video sharing site Tudou from Shanghai for being next in line to go public (following the lead of rival Youku and its share price surge of nearly 110 percent over the IPO) and finally LatticePower for raising $55 million from the IFC to continue developing its breakthrough light-emitting diodes from Nanchang.

Just three years ago, most Chinese startups were unheard of in the West, aside from search engine Baidu and online trading marketplace Alibaba, which were among the earlier wave of Internet startups to make a splash with successful public trading debuts. But now more and more small China businesses are following the lead of these trend-setters a few years ago and being recognized on the global investment stage as attention turns to emerging markets for improved returns.

The sheer numbers of listings and IPOs from mainland China alone is a head turner. So far this year, NASDAQ counts 34 new listings and 15 IPOs from Mainland China while the comparables at NYSE are 24 and 19.

Of the 34 mainland China IPOs this year, 19 are trading upward from their IPO price, with a few showing triple-digit gains such as NASDAQ-listed ChinaCache International and Hisoft Technology. Most of these startups have venture capital support, and from such leaders as Sequoia Capital, which alone is an investor in four of the newly traded Chinese companies on U.S. exchanges.

I wasn’t too surprised by Dangdang’s impressive opening day of trading. I recall interviewing co-founder Peggy YuYu back in 2007 for my book, when she and her husband were establishing the online bookseller. Then, I had been impressed by her quiet determination and keen intellect. Since that initial interview, she wisely kept a low profile, taking a cue from DCM investor David Chao to stay focused on fast and profitable growth of the startup and not get distracted by the noise of China’s booming marketplace.

The ten-year-old startup turned a profit last year. Moreover, it solidified its lead in the Chinese marketplace over an Amazon-owned rival, Joyo.com— thanks to micro-management of the business details – like relying on bicycle couriers to deliver orders—and Peggy’s own flair for merchandising in moving Dangdang from an online bookseller to an e-commerce retailer with a range of popular goods.
Next in line for an IPO among the Silicon Dragon startups is video sharing site Tudou.com.

Founder and CEO Gary Wang is another returnee who, like Peggy, got his education and work experience in the West before moving back to his homeland about a decade ago to try his own business—albeit both versions of business ideas that were proving successful in the U.S.

Over the past decade, these and many other Chinese startups have evolved quickly, and judging from insights I’ve gained from interviews with their founders, investors and competitors, are measuring up to the best from Silicon Valley.

Now, I’m spotting a new trend as Chinese entrepreneurs go to the next level and begin to show enough confidence to come up with new ideas and innovations – no longer just close copies of U.S. originals.

LatticePower, started by a physicist with skills and experience honed in China, is a good example of this new trend with its breakthrough technology for making a highly efficient source of light. I went to tour LatticePower in Nanchang and can still hear Sonny Wu, the investor at GSR Ventures, telling me that LatticePower will be a “billions” IPO.

That may be an exaggeration, but it’s clear that Chinese startups are maturing—and fast. They are beginning to set their own standards—be it on Wall Street or in the lab—and are a force that’s here to stay.

Rebecca A. Fannin is the author of is the author of Silicon Dragon and a former international editor at Red Herring and Incisive Media. She is the founder of Silicon Asia, an e-newsletter, consulting and events group focused on entrepreneurship, innovation and venture capital.

Cloud gaming patent arrives - after 8 years

8 years before patent approval

(patent application was not even examined until 5 years after application)

currently 750,000 backlog at USPTO

www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4211469/Cloud-gaming-patent-arrives-after-8-years

Jobs Board - IEEE Computer Society

computer.org/jobs

peoplesmart.com

very powerful people search site

peoplesmart.com

Mayfield

Pehong Chen's first startup was funded by "Mayfield" (he later became a partner of the venture fund)

look on their website........."consumer" (mobile, games, social, etc) is a major investment are for them

http://www.mayfield.com/

clearvale 明析谷

http://secondfloor.clearvale.com/pg/dashboard

“clearvale” is the new startup company by Pehong Chen (陈丕宏)

“明析谷”

they seem to have a strong cooperative relationship with Sina China

The harder I work, the luckier I am

Thomas Jefferson said, "I have found that the harder I work, the luckier I am."

Long list of Advertising Networks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_advertising_networks

job search agency

www.onwardsearch.com

i think they specialize in mobile ?

Do you need to have a job to land one?

Article from: http://www.npr.org/2010/11/16/131367533/some-will-only-hire-if-you-already-have-a-job

By John Ydstie

Unemployed workers face big hurdles as they try to get new jobs in today's economy. First, there's the numbers game: Close to 25 million workers unemployed or under-employed looking for jobs. In fact, there are five unemployed workers for every single job opening in the economy.

Increasingly, though, jobless workers are facing the ultimate barrier. Some employers are saying if you're out of work, we don't want to hire you.

Until he got laid off more than two years ago, Michael Hall was a road warrior. "I would leave my home here in California about 3 a.m. to catch a flight and get home Friday around midnight," he says.

In between, he'd often make eight more airline connections as he flew around the country.

Hall's job was demonstrating high-tech equipment for data and phone networks. His hard work, engineering training and social skills helped him pull down a solid six-figure income.

But now Hall, who is 50 years old and single, spends most of his time looking for work. He says he has applied for well over 1,000 jobs. Every three months or so, he manages to get an interview.  But so far, no luck. He says he knows it's not personal.

"But, try telling that to some kid who asked every single girl to the prom in his high school and they all said no. After a while, being told that you're not desired or wanted that many times, it might start to sink in, but you try to block it out," he says.

Hall says he mostly manages to remain hopeful. But he is really troubled by one thing: the prejudice many hiring managers seem to hold against the unemployed.

"Two specifically came right out and said we don't like to hire people that are unemployed. And one followed that with 'So, why are you unemployed?' in almost an indignant manner, which seemed kind of insulting. And the obvious answer is, well, because people like you don't like to hire unemployed people," Hall says.

This is a common complaint from unemployed workers — that employers only want to hire people who already have jobs and that there's a view that there must be something wrong with you if you're unemployed.

Chris Shablak, CEO of West Coast Careers, a recruiting and staffing company, confirms those perceptions. And he says he has clients who tell him they don't want him to hire unemployed workers. Shablak thinks there are legitimate reasons behind that strategy.

"If you think about the talent in that unemployed market, you would realize that companies rarely lay off their best skilled workers," he says.

So, he says it's not surprising that some companies don't want to hire the unemployed.

"It's people that aren't top performers. So if you're ABC Corporation and you're trying to hire the best salesperson out there, and you're looking at unemployed people, it might not be the group of people with the best skills," he says.

Hall says when he hears that, it makes him feel like an outcast.

"It sounds, and it really feels like, society wants you to voluntarily walk out onto the ice floe. And I'm not ready for that. I'm too young to pack it all in.  I've got a lot yet to offer," he says.

In fact, some other staffing experts have pointed out that given the massive layoffs in the economy, the chances of finding top performers in the current pool of unemployed workers is probably higher than at any time in memory.

And there may be another reason for companies to make sure they consider the unemployed.

"It's quite possible that discriminating against someone because they're unemployed is illegal," says Judy Conti, who represents the National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group for low-income and unemployed workers.

She acknowledges that there is no specific statute protecting unemployed individuals. But, Conti says, because people of color, who are protected against discrimination, have higher than average unemployment rates, an argument could be made that refusing to consider unemployed people for jobs is illegal.

"With record high levels of unemployment and with people being out of work for so long now, clearly this problem and this prejudice is growing," Conti says.

Conti's organization has brought the issue to the attention of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and she says the black and Hispanic caucuses are preparing letters urging the commission to take quick action on the issue.

Alibaba.com Recruiting Event in Silicon Valley

Alibaba.com Recruiting Event in Silicon Valley – Dec. 2 – 9th, 2010

Alibaba is pleased to invite Silicon Valley IT professionals to an exclusive networking and learning dinner event on or around December 2nd, 2010. The event will feature a speech by Dr. Andy Li, VP of Alibaba engineering and a Silicon Valley returnee. You will have opportunity to meet senior executives from Alibaba engineering department.

Alibaba is poised for explosive growth and is looking for passionate, self-motivated professionals to take the business to the next level. All job opportunities are based in Hangzhou, China.

Exact date and location will be notified once you are confirmed for the event.
Candidates please send resumes to: wto-resume@alibaba-inc.com

Below please find information about Alibaba.com and job openings.
Alibaba.com - Global leader in e-commerce for small businessesAlibaba.com (HKSE: 1688) (1688.HK) is the global leader in e-commerce for small businesses and the flagship company of Alibaba Group.
Founded in 1999 in Hangzhou, China, Alibaba.com makes it easy for millions of buyers and suppliers around the world to do business online through three marketplaces: a global trade platform (http://www.alibaba.com/) for importers and exporters; a Chinese platform (http://www.1688.com/) for domestic trade in China; and, through an associated company, a Japanese platform (http://www.alibaba.co.jp/) facilitating trade to and from Japan. In addition, Alibaba.com offers a wholesale platform on the global site (http://www.aliexpress.com/) geared for smaller buyers seeking fast shipment of small quantities of goods. Together, these marketplaces form a community of more than 53 million registered users in more than 240 countries and regions. Alibaba.com also offers business management software and Internet infrastructure services targeting businesses across China, and provides educational services to incubate enterprise management and e-commerce professionals. Alibaba.com has offices in more than 60 cities across Greater China, India, Japan, Korea, Europe and the United States. Alibaba.com also owns Vendio Services, Inc. and Auctiva, leading providers of third-party e-commerce solutions for online merchants. Vendio and Auctiva are based in California.
Alibaba.com completed its US$1.7 billion initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in November 2007, the biggest Internet IPO at the time since Google's 2004 offering on the NASDAQ.


Other companies in Alibaba Group include:

Taobao - China's largest Internet retail website and one-stop platform for shopping, socializing and information sharingAlipay - China's leading third-party online payment platformAlibaba Cloud Computing - Developer of advanced data-centric cloud computing servicesChina Yahoo! - One of China's leading Internet portals 
These businesses reach Internet users in more than 240 countries and regions, and employ more than 19,000 people worldwide
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Position1:
Lead Technical Architect (架构师)
Location: Hangzhou, China                 工作地点：杭州Department: B2B  Technology Department   工作部门：B2B技术部Quantity：2   job code：P8-P9            人数：2人   层级：P8-P9
Target companies：eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Facebook, Yahoo, Google, IBM, Sun, Oracle

Job Description:
1.  Research and develop technologies for the world’s leading B2B commercial platform，together with extremely talented peers in a fun environment.2.  Leading application development with Java EE platform (may involve C++ integration)
3.  Proactively identify and synthesize the common technology needs, define technology solution initiatives, strategy and development plan, and lead the implementation and execution.
4.  Analysis the business requirement, design, develop and maintain technology solution
5.  Work directly with the Product Manager or functioning in that role, takes ownership of the development and engineering integration of new product features, and can lead successful end to end product releases, which include usability, integration, packaging, and documentation.
6.  Capable of assuming the leadership to make decisions and resolve ambiguities in the product requirements on behalf of the Product Manager.
7.  Identify key tools and processes that are missing or need improvement to improve the quality and efficiency of the organization.
8.  Technical leader and mentor with very deep experience, and diversified research and development skills.

Job Requirement:
1.  6+ years of large scale application development experience on preference in web or distributed application, senior architect with 8+ years experience is preferred.
2.  Strong Unix and large mission critical systems infrastructure and architecture background. Have project experiences with JBoss , BEA Weblogic or IBM WebSphere is a plus.
3.  Experience in project management, well-versed in software engineering modeling and methodology.
4.  Outstanding productivity, top quality results, and superior problem resolution capability.
5.  Good inter-personal, communication and presentation skills.
6.  Bachelor degree in CS, related Master or Doctor Degree is preferred.
Position 2:
Technical Director  (技术总监)
Location: Hangzhou, China                工作地点：杭州
Department: B2B Technology Department    工作部门：B2B技术部
Quantity：2  job code：M4              人数：2人   层级：M4Target companies：eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Facebook, Yahoo, Google

Job Description:
Lead a team of 30+ outstanding engineers with the target of building the most innovative online marketplace system, which can support numerous countries and different payment methods.

Job Requirement:1.  Have engineering and management experience on one or more of these key areas: e-Commerce marketplace, online payment system, payment risk management.
2.  5+ years of experience leading engineering team to build large scale internet applications.
3.  Strong computer engineering background. BS in Computer Science or related fields. MS/PhD preferred.
4.  Expertise in Java, J2EE, Linux, database and distributed computing.
5.  Comfortable building and managing a team of 30+ engineers.
Position 3:Principal Risk Analyst  (支付风控分析师)
Location: Hangzhou, China               工作地点：杭州
Department: B2B Technology Department   工作部门：B2B技术部
Quantity：1  job code：P7-P9           人数：1人   层级：P7-P9Target companies：eBay, PayPal, Amazon

Job Description:
1.       Recognize the potential payment risk in Alibaba B2B transactions around the world.
2.  Work with Product development team to define the risk management product.

Job Requirement:1.       Experience in one or more of the followings in payment risk management: system development, risk analytics, policy, product management or operation.
2.       3+ years of experience in risk analysis, algorithm and modeling for large scale payment risk management system.
3.       Strong background in: statistics, machine learning, large scale internet applications. BS in Computer Science or Statistics. MS/PhD preferred.


Position 4:
System Operation Architect (系统运维架构师)
Location: Hangzhou, China                 工作地点：杭州Department: B2B  Technology Department   工作部门：B2B技术部Quantity：1   job code：P8-P10           人数：1人   层级：P8-P10
Target companies：eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Yahoo, Google, IBM, Sun, Oracle

Job Description:
1.  Target on site's high availability, be in charge of design, implementation, and on-going optimization of system and operation infrastructure for large-scale web site
2.  Be the leading role in researching and applying system technique, include selecting operation system, customizing kernel, optimizing system, and promote appropriate technique in production
3.  Be the leading role in dealing with difficulties in operation area, such as solving major outage, troubleshooting performance bottleneck, etc.
4.  Help on setting up operation standard, working process, and emergency plan

Requirements:
1.  5+ years system administration experience in big internet companies, or 3+ years experience as system architect or senior system engineer
2.  With experience in large-scale web site operation, expertise on capacity planning, architechture, and performance tuning
3.  Good understanding on Linux, TCP/IP, and network, proficient in programming in scripting languages like Shell, Perl, and Python
4.  Strong troubleshooting ability, pay attention on process and specification, sensitive on new technology
5.  Good at project management and process control, keen in identifying and managing risks
6.  Willing to team work, with the sense of customer service
7.  Passion and persistence, working under pressure, goal oriented.


Position 5:
CRM Senior Business Architect  (CRM业务架构师)
Location: Hangzhou, China                 工作地点：杭州Department: B2B Core System Department   工作部门：B2B技术部核心系统部
Quantity：2   job code：P8-P9          人数：2人   层级：P8-P9
Target companies：Oracle Siebel, Salesforce.com, Amdocs, SAS, SAP, Microsoft, Sage, NetSuite, Amazon, Google

Job Description:
1.       Responsible for the overall architecture designing and technology planning of the CRM products and platform, lead the architecture design team to design and develop overall product solutions, and ensure advanced and competitive architecture.
2.       Defining CRM architectural concepts from both a technical perspective and business/financial perspective. Conduct cost/benefit analyses to determine proper architecture solutions.
3.       Provide technical leadership to infrastructure and applications/systems development teams to advance infrastructure technology. Utilizing extensive knowledge of multiple technologies and platforms, provide technical design recommendations based on long-term IT organizational strategy and evolution of technology.
4.       Keep track of the latest architecture and technology development and competitive trend in the CRM field, and improve the industry and technology view of the CRM architecture design team; pilot the overall technical orientation of CRM field.
5.       Lead formulation of technical strategies/roadmaps and planning of CRM platform, and be responsible for continuous improvement of technical competitive power of the CRM platform.
6.       Taking pivotal role encompassing design of business and technical solutions, business development and project management responsibilities.
7.       Being responsible for consulting with current customers at the IT management and senior executive level to identify requirements. Develop business cases, present technical solutions and develop an ongoing relationship to meet and exceed the customer’s expectations.
8.       Provide highest level of application analysis and act as a consultant for BOSS/CRM Analysts. Serves as a technical resource and mentor providing guidance and advice on CRM platform and major project

Job Requirement:
1.       Bachelor degree in computer science or a related discipline preferred with 8 years of CRM infrastructure/systems/applications analysis and design working experience. Strong understanding of software application architectures.
2.       Must have strong understanding of Architecture design process, methodology, and high level of understanding of business environment, strategy and needs. Advanced understanding of software lifecycle methodology and information systems development.
3.       Must have a high degree of understanding in the CRM theories, methodologies and principals underlying technical analysis, design and implementation of software applications, systems, databases, and/or infrastructure.
4.       Deep understanding of main CRM products, application in the industry, market situation, and development trend, and successful practice of the core design ideas and architectures of developed CRM solutions.
5.       Must have proven expert analytical and design skills at multi-product/multi-environment levels as well as in-depth experience in research and analysis, project planning and implementation. Sound business related skills including excellent problem solving, team building, judgment and decision making skills.
6.       Understanding of data mining, business process, modeling techniques and business analysis.  Expertise in at least one of the areas of Data Architecture, ETL design and Data Mining.
7.       Be business-driven and results-driven, and have business acumen.8.       Be self-motivated and influential, and be good at sharing.9.       Strong communications and interpersonal skills.


Position 6:
Senior Data Mining Analyst (数据挖掘研究员)
Location: Hangzhou, China                 工作地点：杭州
Department: B2B  Technology Department   工作部门：B2B数据仓库部产品研发部
Quantity：1  job code：P7-P9          人数：1人   层级：P7-P9
Target companies：eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, Google。
Job Responsibilities
1：Through effective partnership with lead project data mining analyst, provide statistical input to study design, data mining analysis plans, interpretation of data mining ,results, project development plans, regulatory issues and scientific and commercialization projects
2: Be good at data mining methods, including logistic regression, decision tree ,clustering etc，participate many data mining projects
3: Have experience in e-commerce marketing sales strategy or related knowledge.
4：Comply with all data mining analyst and quality processes and standards that are applicable to statistical outputs, and support processes that require statistical input.  Communicate and collaborate with other project teams to ensure consistency of statistical approaches.
5: Participate in research on data mining methodology to business needs.
6. Identify key data mining tools and processes that are available
7. Create and deliver training to both internal and external resources on different tools , technologies, and processes about data mining


Job Requirements:
1.University graduate with a master Degree or above;
2.8 years overall experience, minimum 3 years in a management or team leading position in respect of the building and/or design of data centers;
3.Ability to manage the complex work environment;
4.Very good motivational skills to lead a team of professionals to deliver a common objective;
5.Good planning skills.


Position 7
Principal Software Engineer for Search Engine
（搜索技术专家）Location: Hangzhou, China                      工作地点:杭州
Department: B2B Advertise and Search Center   
工作部门：B2B广告与搜索中心-搜索引擎工程部
Target companies：eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Yahoo, Google ,IBM ,Sun, Oracle


The Advertising and Search Center (ASC, http://asc.alibaba.com/ ) of Alibaba is passionate about building the cutting-edge search engine for the largest business to business marketplace on the web. Building this system provides many technical challenges in the areas of distributed computing, data analysis, multi-terabyte storage systems, high-performance, high availability computing, and efficient massive graph traversal algorithms.

Responsibilities:
1.  Design and enhance features in core components of the search engine.
2. Analyze problems and identify opportunities aggressively for engineering improvement and enhanced user experience.
3.  Drive projects from design to deployment.

Requirements:
1.  5+ years experience in systems programming and multi-threaded programming
2.  MS in computer science or information retrieval
3.  High technical competence, track record of strong coding and individual technical accomplishments.
4.  Exceptional C++/C programming skills on Unix/Linux platform.
5.  Solid background in software design principles and algorithms.
6.  Proven experience in the most challenging aspects of systems programming and multi-threading programming (e.g. high-performance database systems, information retrieval systems, application framework runtime)
7.  Good oral and written communication skills.

8.  Experience with any of the following a huge plus:
- Database systems design/development
- Information retrieval systems design/development



Position 8
 Principal Software Engineer for Advertising Platform（广告平台技术专家）
Location: Hangzhou, China                      工作地点:杭州
Department: B2B Advertise and Search Center
工作部门：B2B广告与搜索中心-广告应用工程部
Target companies：eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Yahoo, Google ,IBM ,Sun, Oracle
特殊说明 （如是否考虑国内招聘等）：向国内开放，可用国内猎头。
The Advertising and Search Center (ASC, http://asc.alibaba.com/) is building the next generation advertising platforms for the largest business to business marketplace on the web. The platform will understand web page content and search user behavior that will enable targeted advertising and personalization on its advertising network.

Specific challenges include designing high-performance algorithms and developing reliable, fault-tolerant and scalable systems that can handle terabytes of data.


Responsibilities:
1.  Architect, design & develop extensible, scalable, reliable advertising systems with product management and application engineering teams
2.  Interact with other teams to define interfaces and understand dependencies
3.  Participate in the core component design and continuous improvements including scalable system design, high performance computing, distributed computing, performance analysis and tools development.

Requirements:
1.  MS/PhD in CS or other relevant discipline.
2.  5+ years of software development experience
3.  Systems programming background with Linux/Unix environment. Multi-process, networking, distributed computing, performance analysis and optimization experience highly desirable
4.  Experience designing and architecting clustered, high performance systems
5.  Excellent in C/C++ , Perl scripting language
6.  Experience in search engines and/or ad serving systems is definitely a plus.
7.  Excellent communication skills




For original message - see email dated Nov 28

Western companies must follow government regulations to operate in China

All Western companies that want to operate in China must follow the rules of the communist government.

There are apps that are available in the US App Store, but are not available in the China App Store, due to certain content limitations.

According to China’s online policies, you cannot use a Chinese leader as an entertainment figure,

and you also cannot distribute any content that is anti-communist.

Until recently, games were banned in the China App Store.

Apple’s statement:

“We continue to comply with local law. Not all apps are available in every country.”

Often, app developers opt out of listing on the Chinese online store because they don’t want to create their program in Chinese.

Reference: “Taking a Bite Out of Apple” article in San Jose Mercury News, by John Boudreau

Educational Apps for Children in China

Bokan Technologies: makes children’s educational apps for the iphone, Bo Wang is the CEO

App aimed for children's market in China

Cute Math app: a top – ranked educational program for children

Apple's long history of high-end strategy focues

The thing is that Apple has never been a low-end market player in any geography, and some say it would not make sense for them to go in the low-end direction

Apple’s "shoot for the high-end" philosophy has made it the world’s most valuable tech company in terms of market capitalization.

Apple’s strategy in the past has been to maximize profit margin instead of market share.

Apple has never been for the mass market; it has been and will always be for the tech geeks and elites (in China) who don’t care about the lack of China-specific content

Most of Apple’s customers are highly-educated elites, often with experience of living outside China, or even wealthy Chinese who give the devices as gifts without any understanding of how the devices work .

Reference: “Apple revamps its China app store” article from San jose mercury news, by John Boudreau

Is the low-end space the only space in China?

Some argue that in China, you have to make money from low-end users

Apple can dominate the high end Chinese user space of about tens of millions

But if Android can dominate the low end space with hundreds of millions of users, it can be argued that developers will still go there

Innovation Works

Innovation Works

An early-stage venture capital

Founded by Kai-Fu Lee

Apple in China

Without a stronger offering of local apps, apple could miss out on the increasing number of wealthy Chinese who don’t speak English.

Apple needs to create closer relationships with Chinese developers, or they will risk falling behind in the market.

TencentQQ

TencentQQ is a popular portal and messaging service in China

apple4.us

Popular Tech Blog in China:

Apple4.us

Local App Developers in China

A number of low-end local app stores have emerged in China.

Sky-Mobi is backed by Sequoia China

Roads to Success of Some Successful Tech Figures

Alumni event, University of Illinois annual Silicon Valley dinner.

Someone who had a big hand in developing FarmVille.

Alumnus Tom Siebel - co-founded Siebel Systems in 1993.

Jerry Sanders, worked at Fairchild and then co-founded AMD.

Larry Ellison, left Illinois after two years, and became one of the world's richest men.

Maybe two years is the way to go? Seibel put in 4 years, and then even went on to get an MBA and a Master's at Urbana-Champaign.....but Larry Ellison got the company .

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, is now a big time venture guy and king maker who serves on the boards of HP, Facebook, and eBay.

Prith Banerjee, directs HP Labs.

Martin Eberhard, co-founded Tesla.

Jeremy Karim and Jawed Karim are founders of Yelp.

Max Levchin co-founded PayPal.

Alan Braverman co-founded Geni.

Steve Chen and Jawed Karim co-founded Youtube.

Mike Cassidy of San Jose Mercury News

Reference: "Top Techies Show Value of a College Education" article in San Jose Mercury News, by Mike Cassidy

Apple's Risk in China

Some industry analysts think that Apple risk in China is the fact that is App stores offer few applications created with specifically the Chinese consumer/user in mind.

Two thirds of the Apple apps downloads are for apps from the US. 

The rest are from apps from Japan and the EU. 

The percentage of apps from China itself is almost zero. 

There are companies and efforts under way to try to change this. 

Reference: "Apple revamps its China App Store" article in San Jose Mercury News, by John Boudreau 

Apple hopes to Create Massive New Market for its Products in China

Apple currently has two Apple stores in Beijing and also two in Shanghai.

It plans to open 25 stores in China by 2011.

**Apple has revamped its iTunes and App Store, allowing Chinese locals to shop online in Chinese for the first time.

China has 800 million mobile users and 400 million internet users. But, so far, Western companies have not yet been able to profit much from this huge market due to a culture of piracy.

Apple relaunched its Chinese iTunes Store and App Store in October, and is making an effort to highlight localized apps.

****Previously, people had to use a US-based credit card, or one with dual currency capability, to make online purchases in the App Store or iTunes Store. The new revamped stores allow people to directly transfer money from banks, which is the preferred method for making Internet purchases in China.

Reference: "Apple revamps its China App Store" article in San Jose Mercury News, by John Boudreau 

Smartphone Market Share in China

Nokia          78.5 %
Motorola      9.2%
Apple           5.7%
HTC            3.9%
YULONG   2.0%


source: Gartner, second quarter 2010

Reference: "Apple revamps its China App Store" article in San Jose Mercury News, by John Boudreau 

10 Tips to an Excellent Resume - By PricewaterhouseCoopers

PWC PricewaterhouseCoopers held a seminar on how to take advantage of LinkedIn to find a Job, and during that seminar they handed out fliers with the following 10 tips on how to build an excellent resume:

1. Limit Your Brilliance to One Page
Your resume is a marketing tool and not a laundry list of everything you've ever done. By keeping your resume short, you're demonstrating that you can edit yourself and sell your skills clearly and concisely.

2. Professionalize Your Contact Info
Resumes with email addreses like  ILovePuppies@internetserviceprovider.com  may not seem profesional to the company you are applying to. Make sure your email addresses are professional and appropriate. The same goes for vioce mail messages.

3. Include Unpaid Experience
Just because you didn't get compensated for certain work doesn't mean it shouldn't count as experience for your resume. By all means include internships, volunteer work, and part-time jobs if you achieved significant results or learned important skills in those positions.

4. Quantify Your Results
Employers dont just want to know what you did; they also want to know what results you accomplished. How many people did you oversee as a store manager? How much money did you save the junior class as treasurer? Quantifying your accomplishments demonstrates not only what you acheived, but also the fact that you track your results.

5. Prioritize Your Points
When you list bullet points under each position or activity on your resume, be sure to place the most important task, accomplishment, or responsibility first. Most readers of your resume will pay close attention to what you've chosen to feature as the first item on each list.

6. Customize Your Resume for Different Opportunities
You need to customize your resume for various opportunities by featuring the experience, keywords, and activities that best suite the requirements of that particular position.

7. Include Only Interesting Interests
When it comes to listing interests or hobbies on your resume, only mention something that is particularly unique, uncommon, or memorable. For example, "Founding president of first-ever Tae Kwon Do Club at my university" or "three-time finisher of Chicago marathon." Generic interests such as "travel and reading" are nice, but they don;t add much.

8. Delete the Reference References
Dont wast precious space on your resume with "References available upon request." Potential employers will request a list of references if they want one.

9. Never Lie, Exaggerate, or Twist the Truth
There are so many reasons not to lie on a resume. First of all, if your lie or truth stretching gets discovered, you'll lose a job opportunity with tha company forever. Second, if you exaggerate your skills, such as being fluent in French when you really just studied it in junior high school, your lie will be extremely obvious the day you start your job and you lack the skills you said you had. You should certainly cast yourself in the most positive light, but never, ever take it too far.

10. Proofread, and then proofread again
Finally, there is absolutely, positively no excuse for a single typo or grammar mistake on a resume. Once you've proofread your resume and feel confident it's perfect, have at least two other people review it for mistakes, misspellings, and formatting glitches. You can never check your resume too many times.


career.linkedin.com

http://www.pwc.tv/

Education Society, IEEE

The Santa Clara Chapter of the IEEE Education Society

Facts about Google's Rapid Growth

In the past 5 years, Google's global workforce has expanded sevenfold to more than 23,000 employees.

Regarding Google's 2010 hiring boom, its total employee count has increased by 18% since January this year. 

County Assessor Larry Stone says: "Google reminds me of Apple in the 80's, and of eBay and Yahoo in the 90's, in terms of its success."

The Value of an Education

Median Mid-career Salaries for People with Bachelor's Degrees from the Following Universities:
1. San Jose State University: $92,900
2. UC Berkeley: $109,000
3. Stanford: $119,000

These median salary numbers are compile by Payscale.com

According to the data, San Jose State, UC Berkeley, and Stanford Graduates start out with similar salaries, but after about 20 years working, Berkeley and Stanford graduates start earning more........$109,000 for Berkeley, and $119,000 for Stanford, compared with $92,900 for SJSU graduates.


Data shows that students that make the most money are those that do well in technical majors such as engineering. It seems that Cal Poly San Luis Obispo graduates earn as much as graduates from USC, but pay less than half the cost for tuition. Also, the top 10% students from Fresno State seem to earn just as much as mid-level students from Stanford.


The highest earning college graduates come not from Harvard, or Princeton, or Yale, but from Harvey Mudd College, which is attributed to Harvey Mudd's heavy focus on math, science, engineering, and a strong alumni base in Southern California, where salaries are high.



.....  Thoughts and Excerpts from San Jose Mercury News Article "Schools Tout the Value of a Degree"

Kai Fu Lee - Influential Figure in China Internet Market

Kai Fu Lee is the founder and current head of and early-stage venture fund called Innovation Works, which is based in Beijing.

He used to be the head of Google China.

Many riches to be made in China's Internet market

Despite of the negative, unethical, cut-throat competition there, it is still widely perceived that there are still huge fortunes waiting to be made in the Chinese Internet market.

This year's online revenue in China is currently forecast to be $4.4 Billion, with forecast 50% annual growth rate.
This year's web games revenue is forecast to be around $5 billion, with forecast 30% annual growth rate.

This year, eCommerce in general is forecast to have $60 billion in value and transactions, and is estimated to be growing at 45% year-by-year.

There are an estimated 430 million Internet users in China.

Business - Tech - Internet - China

It is not uncommon for companies to pay local reporters to write bad things about their competitors.

A major reason for the existence of this type of cut-throat, unethical competition, is the fact that it really isn't easy to sell services to several hundred million Internet users in a culture that expects most things on the Internet to be free.

Link to Blog Post Regards CNN Report: " Baidu Succeeds where Google Stuggles"

http://hliu5656.blogspot.com/2010/11/cnn-report-baidu-succeeds-where-google.html

Kaiser Kuo is spokesman for Baidu

Business - Internet - China

Qihoo 360 is currently in a competitive battle with a former partner. The former partner is another anti-virus company called Kingsoft. Their alliance ended earlier this year, and after that, both sides began targeting the other's software as malware, and each is in the process of filing a lawsuit against the other.

Business - Internet - China

Zhou Hongyi is founder of Qihoo 360, which is an anti-virus software company.

He says that "The Internet in China is currently a Jungle."

He used to head Yahoo China's operations but later fell out with Yahoo.

Business - China

Quote from Richard Lim, who is managing director of GSR Ventures (with extensive experience in Asia) says:

The "nature of competition is a little bit different" in China.

GSR Ventures is a backer of Lashou.com

Business - China

Shen Haoyu is SVP of operations at search giant Baidu

Business - Competition

Silicon Valley is also a pretty tough place to do business, where corporate giants cooperate with other companies while simultaneously trying eviscerate them.

Innovation

In Silicon Valley, giants like Google and Cisco regularly acquire startups with fresh ideas and technology, which in turn encourages other entrepreneurs to create new companies.

Business - China - Venture Capital

Hans Tung is a partner at Shanghai-based Qiming Venture Partners, which backs Internet companies (including Kaixin001)

Business - Internet - China (continued ......3)

excerpt and thoughts from San Jose Mercury News article

Internet Market in China

Cut Throat Tactics

Competitors steal each other's employees and their Intellectual Property.
They also rat out competitors for violations of regulations.
They disable each other's websites and engage in hardball tactics rarely seen in Silicon Valley.
Established Internet companies copy business plans of startups, then set out to destroy the small companies.

Quote from Hans Tung : "In China, the cost of labor is cheap, and there is no shame in copying."

Hans Tung is a partner at Shanghai-based Qiming Venture Partners, which backs Internet companies (including Kaixin001)

Quote from Jeremy Goldkorn: "The Valley culture doesnt work in East Asia." "There are no rules."
Jeremy Goldkorn is an Internet analyst who has operated a popular blog ( Danwei.org ) for years. The Chinese government started blocking Danwei.org this summer.

G20 2010 Seoul - President Obama and Chinese Reporter

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/juR6N3NDfa8/

President Obama - G20 Closing Speech Seoul Part1 of 3

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/LkwNIwo56Mc/

Business - China - Internet - Tudou.com

excellent site
www.tutou.com
土豆网
view videos

Business - China - excellent site

Chinese media, advertising, and urban life. 

www.danwei.org

 

Business - Internet - Groupon-type site

 a deal-a-day Groupon-type sites

"Lashou.com", a Groupon-type deal-of-the-day site -> founder started this company after returning to China from Silicon Valley in 2000

Business - Internet - China ( continued .... 2 )

( continuing previous post on Internet business and state of the Internet market in China )

Quote: "It's like a gladatorial no-holds-barred fight to the death." .... Dan Brody, Google's first employee who now runs an Internet investment company in Beijing.

a deal-a-day Groupon-type site.

Some Silicon Valley Internet companies, such as Twitter and Facebook, are blocked by China's Great Firewall.

In China, government censorship rules. Some people suspect some of the Chinese government's behind the scenes moves are aimed at helping local companies edge out foreign ones.

But it is generally agreed that it would be wrong to blame the failures of Silicon Valley companies in the Chinese Internet market just on government interference. The intense, ruthless, and sometimes unethical competition in China, and the speed at which companies are started and change, creates a business environment that Western businesses, up to now, have not been prepared for.

It took Bo Wu, founder of Lashou.com, a Groupon-type deal-of-the-day site, five years to learn how to do business in China after returning from Silicon Valley in 2000.

Business - Internet - China

On November 5, 2010 , the San Jose Mercury News ran an article titled "Web Wars in China", below are some excerpts and thoughts

Competition is robust, fast, and unethical. -> survival of the fittest!
Silicon Valley companies have long eyed the massive internet market in China -> 430 million users

BingHao Cheng launched a social networking site two years ago, he named it Kaixin, or Happiness.
But he didnt have the money to spare to buy the domain name Kaixin, so he used kaixin001, which was not already owned ny someone else. After his company gained popularity, a rival swooped in and bought the domain name Kaixin, and redirected users of Kaixin001 to its site.


Thomas Chu, chief strategy officer at Kaixin001 says: "It's like a knife fight here."

Facebook co-founder Mark Zukerburg, who has talked about setting up operations in China, is studying Mandarin.

Another quote: Zhou Hongyi from Qihoo 360 (anti-virus software firm) says "The Internet in China is like a jungle."

Another quote: Si Shen, CEO of gaming platform PapayaMobile, says a major problem in China is the inability to trust new employees, who "could be spies for other companies."

Business - Angel and Micro-venture Investing Gain Popularity

the recent rise of angel and micro-venture investing ---- involves individuals and small groups raising $1 million to $2 million to fund startups .

......excerpt from San Jose Mercury News article

Jobs - Job Search - Useful Websites

Tech Job Listing Service:
"Dice.com"

Aggregates thousands of emplyment sites:
"indeed.com"

business - startup - "Access Growth"

http://www.accessgrowth.com/

some useful websites associated with SVC wireless

www.svcwireless.org

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三藩市湾区站

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