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.