蘋果電腦巧心思, 喬布斯別具創意,
眼光獨到成大事, 電腦世代留青史。
燦爛時刻作請辭, 戴着佳績脫戰衣,
永站頂峰談何易, 競爭白熱再開始。
Sandy Pang
2011年8月28日 星期日
Magic Apple
What a magic apple,
You created the miracle.
No matter you are a civilian or a noble,
You’ll agree its outlook is so beautiful.
No matter you are ready to go,
Or work in the office as usual,
You’ll find it is very helpful.
No matter you travel oversea or work in local,
You’ll assent it is quite useful.
No matter you are just a student or professional,
You won’t disagree it is really powerful.
Steve Jobs, my uncle,
You are so successful.
Sandy Pang
2011年8月20日 星期六
iPad 2 is getting start...
iPad 2 is getting start, we will anticipate for a brighter future...
What is the change of life with iPad? joyful, magic, powerful, future, start...
What is the change of life with iPad? joyful, magic, powerful, future, start...
2011年8月19日 星期五
The e-World is a Mistery
The iPad is writing a story,
The iPad is creating a history,
The e-World is a mistery.
If you missed it, I'm sorry.
The boy holding a tab is still naughty,
The girl holding a tab is still chasing for beauty.
You could buy a gift on-line for me,
No matter it is cheap or luxury,
Afford to spend money.
You could also run a business here,
Love to earn money.
The e-World is a mistery.
Sandy Pang
The iPad is creating a history,
The e-World is a mistery.
If you missed it, I'm sorry.
The boy holding a tab is still naughty,
The girl holding a tab is still chasing for beauty.
You could buy a gift on-line for me,
No matter it is cheap or luxury,
Afford to spend money.
You could also run a business here,
Love to earn money.
The e-World is a mistery.
Sandy Pang
2011年8月18日 星期四
2011年8月12日 星期五
黑客, 請勿襲擊Facebook
勢不可擋互聯網，社交網站露峰芒，
保障私隱為己任，何忍摧毀強滅亡。
Facebook魅力沒法擋，互聯力量浪接浪，
善用工具為上策，切忌擋車用螳螂。
十數年前，互聯網初出現，人類的生活開始改變，因為他們發現在互聯網上可以探索世界。而電郵通訊亦日漸流行，電報機最終也被淘汰了。隨後，ICQ, MSN, QQ, CHAT, 種種即時通訊系統如雨後春筍，日漸普及。
數年前，FACEBOOK的出現，令人類的生活作出重大的改變。儘管仍有很多人說這類社交網站種種的不是，它的用戶數字仍是爆炸式迅速增長。
FACEBOOK 的力量，仿如時代的巨輪，急速前進，我們何不順勢而行，善用它的方便和優勢，加強世界各地朋友之間的聯縶，擴闊不同層面的網絡，甚至引進商機，切忌螳臂擋車，以卵擊石。我覺得，除非有一所比FACEBOOK更強大的巨輪，否則，它實在難以被擊倒。
至於保安及個人私隱方面，有關方面，亦應正視問題，作出承諾，確保用戶的私隱受到保障。而用戶亦應避免在社交網站上留下太多的個人資料，不要到到處打咭，自己有所保留，別人亦無從入手。
Sandy Pang
Sandy Pang
新聞轉載 :
黑客預告11月 5 日襲擊 facebook
黑客預告
黑客組織「無名氏」（ Anonymous）事先張揚要在 11月 5 日襲擊社交網站 facebook，聲明呼籲「想捍衞資訊自由」的人「為保護私隱，就殺掉 fb」，理由是 fb「一直把資料出售給政府機關，又讓網絡安全公司偵察全球的人」。
CNET網站2011年08月11日
CNET網站
2011年8月3日 星期三
電子書, 潮流熱
潮流熱, 電子書, 厚厚書本成歷史。
愛翻讀, 電子書, 左點右飛憑一指。
極環保, 電子書, 關愛地球不坎樹。
儲存易, 電子書, 開卷有益話咁易。
Sandy Pang
愛翻讀, 電子書, 左點右飛憑一指。
極環保, 電子書, 關愛地球不坎樹。
儲存易, 電子書, 開卷有益話咁易。
Sandy Pang
新聞轉載 :
電子書 在香港與前瞻
電子書 在香港與前瞻
本屆書展剛過，當大家熱熱鬧鬧地前往香港書展，帶着一袋袋書回家，你有沒有發現書展三樓展場內的電子書部，比去年擴大了60%，還設置了「未來書店體驗區」，特備巨型觸屏裝置，讓大家即時親身感受電子閱讀樂趣？其實電子書提速超越紙版書的年代，已經悄悄地殺到埋身！
早在 5 月，美國最大網路電子商務公司 Amazon (亞馬遜) 已宣布旗下的電子書銷量，超過了紙版書，速度比 Amazon 的創辦人 Jeff Bezos 所預期為快；上月底更有美國第二大連鎖書店 Borders 不敵電子書潮流而結業，一切事件都在提醒着閱讀的媒體正在改變。而對於電子書的概念，不能再停留在「電腦」及「電子閱讀器」的框架上，它已進軍各種可行的流動電子設備，包括智能手機和平版電腦。
在香港，根據首尚文化首席技術官鄺豪迪指出，其實使用新一代智能手機的人數已超過 4 成，還在不斷上升。而巿場研究公司 TNS 最新一項平板電腦調查顯示，17% 本港受訪者表示擁有平板電腦，比率全球第一，平均每 6 人有 1 部。在香港的電子書開發商眼中，電子書閱讀是潮流所趨，普及化只是時間問題。
不比外國平台遜色
現時，除了聯合出版及萬里機構出版等，售書內附電子化版本閱讀平台或光碟方式的電子書外，以流動數據平台研發電子書的主要平台包括：首尚文化、3 香港及光波 24 書網。他們所研發的系統，大多適用於電腦、平板電腦（如 Samsung Galaxy Tab、iPad）、新一代智能手機（如 iPhone、Android 及 Windows Mobile），配合自設的售買電子書平台及網頁，務求用家只要能上網，就能看書買書，隨時隨地「一機在手」就能閱讀，絕對不比外國的平台如 Kindle、iBooks 等遜色，甚至比之更功能兼備。
除了一般的翻頁動態、加入筆記、書籤、我的至愛及搜尋內容功能外，如光波 24 書網能支援音樂及影片，令閱讀多元化，又能在閱讀時按鍵分享到 Facebook、微博、Twitter 等社交平台和朋友分享，緊貼潮流的需求。這些電子書，更有放大字體而不失真的功能，眼力不好或是在車廂抖動的情況下，不會因為放大來看而令字體模糊。而且除了電子書，3 香港內容管理主管何偉榮在香港貿易發展局特辦的電子書簡介會說，3 香港正推行月費形式任看平台上所有電子雜誌的計劃，價錢合宜故頗具吸引力。
電子書發展的局限
自從電子書面世以來，大家都認同電子書不再受傳統印刷限制，不用再着意書本的大小重量、頁數多寡、彩色印刷還是黑白印刷。亦因為不用印刷的關係，成本大大減低，讀者能以相等的價錢看更多書。然而在我們享受方便閱讀的同時，其實研發更多功能和舒適的電子閱讀程式，正面臨着相關挑戰。
電子書現時並非全沒局限。首要的局限，是來自硬體器材本身。電腦、平版電腦及電子閱讀器（如 Kindle、漢王等）有較大的閱讀版面，看得舒適，但版面大小還是有差距，要是依器材大小縮放電子書，有可能發生少許變形情況。其次，可流動攜帶的器材重量亦不一，如平版電腦暫時仍多數較一本口袋大小書籍重，長時間拿着看而沒有安放的地方，手腕會感到痠軟。此外，部分電子閱讀器，在太陽強光底下有機會因缺乏抗光設計而看不清畫面。
當然不是人人也可以擁有自己的 iPad 或 Samsung Galaxy Tab。光波 24 書網行政總裁鄭嘉樂說：「在香港使用 iPhone 和 iPad 的比率約 9 : 1，日常使用電子書的人，多是用手機進行閱讀。」也就是說版面更小，所以怎麼在小版面容納原本大版面的書頁，而讀者又能看到字和內容，是現時電子書首要解決的問題。
手機閱讀程式和手機硬件配合也有限制。首要是網絡連綫多是必須的，現時平台多以手機連綫終端機讀取電子書。如通話計劃沒有支援流動數據，又處於沒有 wifi 上網的地點，用家有機會看不到電子書。儲存於手機內的電子書檔亦不能太大，即使現時手機的硬碟很多超過 8GB（常存滿音樂和程式），圖文並茂甚至附有聲音的電子書，要不只存部分檔案，就是離綫模式缺掉圖片和影音，儲存成純文字檔。
取代紙版書勢在必行
此外，鄭嘉樂指出放大電子書頁閱讀、多頁預覽模式、多媒體載入等，對手機的記憶體和硬件運行都有相當壓力，研發程式時絕不能超錶。要研發更快捷方便的功能，如光波 24 書網現時未能做到影片跳播，還有待跟進。
至於吸納作者和出版社方面，鄭嘉樂說：「電子書須超越紙版書的收入」，才能吸引作者和出版社加入辦電子書的潮流。雖然大家還是習慣於看紙版書，但由外國的例子可見，電子書收入超過紙版書收入，也是勢在必行的事；而很多有關電子書的研發問題，也將隨着一日千里的電子產品研發，日漸得到更大的改進。以代表科技、娛樂、設計趨勢的 TED 大會上，麻省理工學院媒體實驗室天才學生 Pranav Mistry 發表過的 SixthSense 為例，不久的將來，我們可能只要拿着一張紙就可看電子書，甚至在 3D 的技術下，無紙天書拿到哪去看都行！
---------------------------------
龐大流動圖書庫
愛讀書，也不用怕電子書數目選擇少，首尚文化與超過 100 間出版商合作辦電子書，包括三聯、皇冠、花千樹、文化傳信及新雅等，又正與國家戰略性圖書館及微軟合作電子書發展。光波 24 書網則是香港最大中文電子書網，藏書量超過 5 萬本，橫跨中、港、台出版社，單是 24Reader Mobile App 的書量已接近 4,000 冊。3 香港更全城獨家首創 3Books 一站式流動電子書平台，連結前兩者及其他海外電子書供應商、出版社及雜誌商，建立全港最大逾百萬本藏書的電子流動圖書庫。
經濟日報 副刊 2011年8月1日
撰文:心雪 特約作者 欄名:城定格
早在 5 月，美國最大網路電子商務公司 Amazon (亞馬遜) 已宣布旗下的電子書銷量，超過了紙版書，速度比 Amazon 的創辦人 Jeff Bezos 所預期為快；上月底更有美國第二大連鎖書店 Borders 不敵電子書潮流而結業，一切事件都在提醒着閱讀的媒體正在改變。而對於電子書的概念，不能再停留在「電腦」及「電子閱讀器」的框架上，它已進軍各種可行的流動電子設備，包括智能手機和平版電腦。
在香港，根據首尚文化首席技術官鄺豪迪指出，其實使用新一代智能手機的人數已超過 4 成，還在不斷上升。而巿場研究公司 TNS 最新一項平板電腦調查顯示，17% 本港受訪者表示擁有平板電腦，比率全球第一，平均每 6 人有 1 部。在香港的電子書開發商眼中，電子書閱讀是潮流所趨，普及化只是時間問題。
不比外國平台遜色
現時，除了聯合出版及萬里機構出版等，售書內附電子化版本閱讀平台或光碟方式的電子書外，以流動數據平台研發電子書的主要平台包括：首尚文化、3 香港及光波 24 書網。他們所研發的系統，大多適用於電腦、平板電腦（如 Samsung Galaxy Tab、iPad）、新一代智能手機（如 iPhone、Android 及 Windows Mobile），配合自設的售買電子書平台及網頁，務求用家只要能上網，就能看書買書，隨時隨地「一機在手」就能閱讀，絕對不比外國的平台如 Kindle、iBooks 等遜色，甚至比之更功能兼備。
除了一般的翻頁動態、加入筆記、書籤、我的至愛及搜尋內容功能外，如光波 24 書網能支援音樂及影片，令閱讀多元化，又能在閱讀時按鍵分享到 Facebook、微博、Twitter 等社交平台和朋友分享，緊貼潮流的需求。這些電子書，更有放大字體而不失真的功能，眼力不好或是在車廂抖動的情況下，不會因為放大來看而令字體模糊。而且除了電子書，3 香港內容管理主管何偉榮在香港貿易發展局特辦的電子書簡介會說，3 香港正推行月費形式任看平台上所有電子雜誌的計劃，價錢合宜故頗具吸引力。
電子書發展的局限
自從電子書面世以來，大家都認同電子書不再受傳統印刷限制，不用再着意書本的大小重量、頁數多寡、彩色印刷還是黑白印刷。亦因為不用印刷的關係，成本大大減低，讀者能以相等的價錢看更多書。然而在我們享受方便閱讀的同時，其實研發更多功能和舒適的電子閱讀程式，正面臨着相關挑戰。
電子書現時並非全沒局限。首要的局限，是來自硬體器材本身。電腦、平版電腦及電子閱讀器（如 Kindle、漢王等）有較大的閱讀版面，看得舒適，但版面大小還是有差距，要是依器材大小縮放電子書，有可能發生少許變形情況。其次，可流動攜帶的器材重量亦不一，如平版電腦暫時仍多數較一本口袋大小書籍重，長時間拿着看而沒有安放的地方，手腕會感到痠軟。此外，部分電子閱讀器，在太陽強光底下有機會因缺乏抗光設計而看不清畫面。
當然不是人人也可以擁有自己的 iPad 或 Samsung Galaxy Tab。光波 24 書網行政總裁鄭嘉樂說：「在香港使用 iPhone 和 iPad 的比率約 9 : 1，日常使用電子書的人，多是用手機進行閱讀。」也就是說版面更小，所以怎麼在小版面容納原本大版面的書頁，而讀者又能看到字和內容，是現時電子書首要解決的問題。
手機閱讀程式和手機硬件配合也有限制。首要是網絡連綫多是必須的，現時平台多以手機連綫終端機讀取電子書。如通話計劃沒有支援流動數據，又處於沒有 wifi 上網的地點，用家有機會看不到電子書。儲存於手機內的電子書檔亦不能太大，即使現時手機的硬碟很多超過 8GB（常存滿音樂和程式），圖文並茂甚至附有聲音的電子書，要不只存部分檔案，就是離綫模式缺掉圖片和影音，儲存成純文字檔。
取代紙版書勢在必行
此外，鄭嘉樂指出放大電子書頁閱讀、多頁預覽模式、多媒體載入等，對手機的記憶體和硬件運行都有相當壓力，研發程式時絕不能超錶。要研發更快捷方便的功能，如光波 24 書網現時未能做到影片跳播，還有待跟進。
至於吸納作者和出版社方面，鄭嘉樂說：「電子書須超越紙版書的收入」，才能吸引作者和出版社加入辦電子書的潮流。雖然大家還是習慣於看紙版書，但由外國的例子可見，電子書收入超過紙版書收入，也是勢在必行的事；而很多有關電子書的研發問題，也將隨着一日千里的電子產品研發，日漸得到更大的改進。以代表科技、娛樂、設計趨勢的 TED 大會上，麻省理工學院媒體實驗室天才學生 Pranav Mistry 發表過的 SixthSense 為例，不久的將來，我們可能只要拿着一張紙就可看電子書，甚至在 3D 的技術下，無紙天書拿到哪去看都行！
---------------------------------
龐大流動圖書庫
愛讀書，也不用怕電子書數目選擇少，首尚文化與超過 100 間出版商合作辦電子書，包括三聯、皇冠、花千樹、文化傳信及新雅等，又正與國家戰略性圖書館及微軟合作電子書發展。光波 24 書網則是香港最大中文電子書網，藏書量超過 5 萬本，橫跨中、港、台出版社，單是 24Reader Mobile App 的書量已接近 4,000 冊。3 香港更全城獨家首創 3Books 一站式流動電子書平台，連結前兩者及其他海外電子書供應商、出版社及雜誌商，建立全港最大逾百萬本藏書的電子流動圖書庫。
經濟日報 副刊 2011年8月1日
撰文:心雪 特約作者 欄名:城定格
2011年8月1日 星期一
Protecting Online Privacy – Use Social Networking Sites Smartly
以下提供一些實用貼士, 讓大家安全地使用社交網站:
<English version>
from: Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong
Website: http://www.pcpd.org.hk/
<中文版本>
在網絡世界保障私隱à精明使用社交網站:
資料來源: 香港個人資料私隱專員公署
Website: http://www.pcpd.org.hk/
Here are some practical tips, how to use social networking sites safely:
2011年7月24日 星期日
Google+ Now Has 20 Million Users And it only took three weeks!
After an explosion of viral growth and a period of somewhat slower (but still incredibly fast) expansion, the three-week-old Google+ has reached 20 million members, according to data from ComScore, which bases its estimates on a “global measurement panel” of two million web users. (Still no data on how much time people are spending on the new social network, though.)
The growth is especially impressive because the website is still invite-only, meaning that users must know someone already on the site, says the Wall Street Journal. Plus, Google hasn’t even begun marketing the site to the more than one billion monthly visitors to its search page, Gmail, and other services.
“I've never seen anything grow this quickly,” Andrew Lipsman, vice president of industry analysis at comScore, told the WSJ. The only other site that has matched this kind of visitor accumulation in a short period of time is Twitter back in 2009, he said, “but that happened over several months.”
Google+ still has a long way to go before it reaches Facebook’s 750 million users — or even Twitter’s 200 million — but if the site can keep its users active and interested, it's only a matter of time.
Source: http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/google-now-has-20-million-users-133608
The growth is especially impressive because the website is still invite-only, meaning that users must know someone already on the site, says the Wall Street Journal. Plus, Google hasn’t even begun marketing the site to the more than one billion monthly visitors to its search page, Gmail, and other services.
“I've never seen anything grow this quickly,” Andrew Lipsman, vice president of industry analysis at comScore, told the WSJ. The only other site that has matched this kind of visitor accumulation in a short period of time is Twitter back in 2009, he said, “but that happened over several months.”
Google+ still has a long way to go before it reaches Facebook’s 750 million users — or even Twitter’s 200 million — but if the site can keep its users active and interested, it's only a matter of time.
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2011年7月16日 星期六
Google+ Going Big, Fast, but Will It Last? Larry Page: Google+ tops 10 million users, 1 billion shares per day
Google+ has a ways to go before it rivals Facebook’s user base, but just two weeks after its launch, user engagement for the Web's newest social network appears to be going strong. During Google’s quarterly earnings call Thursday, CEO Larry Page said the site has attracted more than 10 million users who share and receive more than 1 billion items daily on the site.
“The growth of Google+ has been great,” he said. “That’s a great achievement for the team.”
But the volume of Google+ sharing seems striking—especially when compared to Facebook, a site with about 75 times more people. At Facebook's most recent press event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it's more than 750 million users share 4 billion items a day.
Google, however, counts shares on Google+ the way it does on its other products. Items shared don't just include a piece of content sent but also the number of people who receive it. So if someone shares a single item with 15 people, Google counts that as 15 shares. On Facebook, one shared item is a single item of content, regardless of the number of people who receive it.
But will Google+, which is chock-full of tech professionals, analysts, reporters, and enthusiasts, sustain such a high level of activity?
Chris Brogan, a social media entrepreneur and president of Human Business Works, said he believes the platform is here to stay.
"Google finally has their social media hit," he said. "Sharing is huge."
He said the network's re-sharing mechanism isn't perfect, and he sees more re-sharing by some of the more popular people. But the site has already become the No. 1 referrer of people to his blog after Google search (some days it beats even that).
That's especially significant, Brogan said, considering he has about 186,000 followers on Twitter and about 13,000 on Google+.
"To have Google+ beat Twitter is a huge number," he said.
But Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, said that while current Google+ members are high-usage types more than happy to kick the tires, that’s no indicator of future engagement.
“Facebook’s a more mature offering . . . as in the network has settled down to a kind of steady state,” Enderle said. “Google+ is still in an early adopter state. I’d expect that over time it would drop down and be much closer to Facebook.”
“The advantage is still in Facebook’s court,” he said. “[But that’s] the same condition that existed with Myspace and Facebook. Just because they have the advantage now doesn’t mean it’s going to continue.”
He also said that though the Facebook-Google rivalry is most top of mind, from his observations it seems as though people are actually using Google+ as a kind of "super Twitter."
During Thursday’s earnings call, neither Page nor the analysts specifically referred to Facebook, opting instead to use the innocuous phrase “other social networks.”
But when asked about how Google+ might compete with rival networks (read: Facebook) that already have users’ photos, friends, and other information that can be a hassle to migrate, Page seemed to make a slight dig at his biggest opponent in social.
"There is legacy . . . [but] Google as a company believes in users owning their own data," he said. "Some of our competitors don't believe in that. But we believe users will ultimately move to services that reflect their best interests and work well for them."
Source: http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/google-going-big-fast-will-it-last-133439
“The growth of Google+ has been great,” he said. “That’s a great achievement for the team.”
The size of the Google+ population wasn’t too surprising, as last week Google chairman Eric Schmidt said the network had millions of users and earlier this week Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen used U.S. Census data to estimate that the site had about 10 million members.
But the volume of Google+ sharing seems striking—especially when compared to Facebook, a site with about 75 times more people. At Facebook's most recent press event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it's more than 750 million users share 4 billion items a day.
Google, however, counts shares on Google+ the way it does on its other products. Items shared don't just include a piece of content sent but also the number of people who receive it. So if someone shares a single item with 15 people, Google counts that as 15 shares. On Facebook, one shared item is a single item of content, regardless of the number of people who receive it.
But will Google+, which is chock-full of tech professionals, analysts, reporters, and enthusiasts, sustain such a high level of activity?
Chris Brogan, a social media entrepreneur and president of Human Business Works, said he believes the platform is here to stay.
"Google finally has their social media hit," he said. "Sharing is huge."
He said the network's re-sharing mechanism isn't perfect, and he sees more re-sharing by some of the more popular people. But the site has already become the No. 1 referrer of people to his blog after Google search (some days it beats even that).
That's especially significant, Brogan said, considering he has about 186,000 followers on Twitter and about 13,000 on Google+.
"To have Google+ beat Twitter is a huge number," he said.
But Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, said that while current Google+ members are high-usage types more than happy to kick the tires, that’s no indicator of future engagement.
“Facebook’s a more mature offering . . . as in the network has settled down to a kind of steady state,” Enderle said. “Google+ is still in an early adopter state. I’d expect that over time it would drop down and be much closer to Facebook.”
“The advantage is still in Facebook’s court,” he said. “[But that’s] the same condition that existed with Myspace and Facebook. Just because they have the advantage now doesn’t mean it’s going to continue.”
He also said that though the Facebook-Google rivalry is most top of mind, from his observations it seems as though people are actually using Google+ as a kind of "super Twitter."
During Thursday’s earnings call, neither Page nor the analysts specifically referred to Facebook, opting instead to use the innocuous phrase “other social networks.”
But when asked about how Google+ might compete with rival networks (read: Facebook) that already have users’ photos, friends, and other information that can be a hassle to migrate, Page seemed to make a slight dig at his biggest opponent in social.
"There is legacy . . . [but] Google as a company believes in users owning their own data," he said. "Some of our competitors don't believe in that. But we believe users will ultimately move to services that reflect their best interests and work well for them."
Source: http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/google-going-big-fast-will-it-last-133439
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