"Young Chinese are coming of age at a time of exploding wealth and rising expectations for material success. In a survey last year on Sohu.com, a popular Web portal similar to Yahoo, 73% of respondents said homeownership was a necessity for marriage. An almost equal percentage said they had difficulty buying an apartment."I'm 25 years old, looking for a boyfriend.... I want you to have an apartment and a car.... The apartment has to be built after 2000 and the car has to be better than a minivan," read one post on the popular Chinese Web portal Baidu."
Monday, June 21, 2010
Business: China's housing boom spells trouble for boyfriends
http://m.latimes.com/inf/infomo;JSESSIONID=0319289B1E9D7865E952.213?view=Business+Items&feed:a=latimes_1min&feed:c=businessnews&feed:i=54451641&nopaging=1
Sunday, June 20, 2010
The End of Men - Magazine - The Atlantic - Flash Player Installation
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/8135/1/
"As recently as 1985, about half of all women in a national survey said they "must have a son." That percentage fell slowly until 1991 and then plummeted to just over 15 percent by 2003. Male preference in South Korea "is over," says Monica Das Gupta, a demographer and Asia expert at the World Bank. "It happened so fast. It's hard to believe it, but it is." The same shift is now beginning in other rapidly industrializing countries such as India and China."
"As recently as 1985, about half of all women in a national survey said they "must have a son." That percentage fell slowly until 1991 and then plummeted to just over 15 percent by 2003. Male preference in South Korea "is over," says Monica Das Gupta, a demographer and Asia expert at the World Bank. "It happened so fast. It's hard to believe it, but it is." The same shift is now beginning in other rapidly industrializing countries such as India and China."
Monday, June 14, 2010
TechCrunch: Zynga goes to the mattresses with Mafia Wars users
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/14/zynga-goes-to-the-mattresses-with-mafia-wars-users/
"When Zynga continued to ignore users they started emailing us [TechCrunch] instead. Emails thousands of words long came in containing the kind of bitter passion that you usually only see when we say something mildly critical about the iPhone. Some users are saying that they are going to do a credit card charge back on money they've previously spent on Zynga games. Others say they're leaving to try one of the many competitors. Etc.
What really seemed to make the users angry is the tone Zynga used in communicating with them:
"Your account was determined to have attempted to use an unauthorized redemption code that would result in $120 worth of Reward Points.
As a result of this action, your account has been reverted to its status as of 5am PST on Tuesday June 8th."
Remember that this is just fake money to buy fake stuff on Mafia Wars that costs Zynga nothing to create. The code was created by Zynga and distributed without any technical restrictions on its use (meaning anyone could use it).
In other words, Zynga screwed up."
"When Zynga continued to ignore users they started emailing us [TechCrunch] instead. Emails thousands of words long came in containing the kind of bitter passion that you usually only see when we say something mildly critical about the iPhone. Some users are saying that they are going to do a credit card charge back on money they've previously spent on Zynga games. Others say they're leaving to try one of the many competitors. Etc.
What really seemed to make the users angry is the tone Zynga used in communicating with them:
"Your account was determined to have attempted to use an unauthorized redemption code that would result in $120 worth of Reward Points.
As a result of this action, your account has been reverted to its status as of 5am PST on Tuesday June 8th."
Remember that this is just fake money to buy fake stuff on Mafia Wars that costs Zynga nothing to create. The code was created by Zynga and distributed without any technical restrictions on its use (meaning anyone could use it).
In other words, Zynga screwed up."
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Engadget for Mobile
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/hp-ceo-we-didnt-buy-palm-to-be-in-the-smartphone-business/
Or is Hurd in the "cell phones are toys" camp?
"hey, Mark? You should really look into the smartphone business when you get a second, okay? Just trust us on this one"- hopefully he means "today smartphones, tomorrow the world".
Or is Hurd in the "cell phones are toys" camp?
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