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2007年4月15日星期日

[SOFT]其实谷歌真的不懂本土化

from无聊布棉的blog

4月12日,google一周年没多少人记得,谷歌之父已babytree,周韶宁已不知所踪,Google中国依然如故,每出一个产品,Google中国自我感觉良好,很多人觉得so so,这次拼音输入法闹了这么一个大笑话,被搜狗抓了痛脚,在国外也被爆炒,脸丢到国外去了。

谷歌一年了,依然没有理解什么叫本土化。copy是最具有中国特色的本土化风格,但是谷歌却没有领会到主旨,就像大学的时候考试抄作业,如果照抄就会出事,但是艺术的抄就可过关甚至得高分。

如果我是谷歌输入法的产品经理,绝对不会直接抄袭词库,会抄得很艺术。

1、推出一个输入法裸奔产品,里面基本上只有常规词库,可能只有几M而已,比搜狗的快,比紫光的小,比拼音加加知名。

2、在输入法页面来个链接,连到Google groups,号召网友来贡献词库,于是一批愣头青把自己的词库贡献上来,大家可以选择下载。

3、突然在groups页面出现一个巨牛B的词库,号称网友hack了紫光、搜狗、拼音加加的词库做了整合而来的,当然,这个词库也是“网友贡献”的,实际上是谁干的,你知我知天知地知只有谷歌自己不知。

4、发布新闻稿,宣布这个词库下载量已经达到1N(N>8个0)次,欢迎大家下载。并表示,Google是全球最开放的平台,我们只做输入法,不做词库,词库大家去做。或者说用WIKI的方式来做词库,很2.0吧?

按照以上4步,我就不信输入法即使含有那几个员工的名字,搜狐还敢起诉Google,Google就是一个闷棍打了狐狸的尾巴,Y还不敢叫疼。

以上说法,在Google有次图书搜索的见面会上,已经向他们提过类似的做法,只是谷歌真的不够本土,没有领会到中心思想。Google要学习百度,你看看人家百度空间的模板,据说,百度搞了一次模板设计大赛,就把人家QQ好不容易积累了N年并且收费的模板,全部变成空间模板,免费,于是一帮小P孩P颠P颠地抛弃Q-zone跑来玩百度了。

搜狗赢了名气谷歌得了市场,这是一种普遍的看法,但是事实未必,搜狗赢了名气,名气仅限于IT行业,或者就那些人,谷歌得了市场,这个所谓的市场还非常薄弱。

在华军,没有做多大的推广,谷歌输入法从4月8日至今,只有34497个下载,搜狗3.0从3月30日至今,只有52748次,紫光输入法b6, 4月14日至今,5816863次。在太平洋,看看输入法的下载排名(选择周下载),可以看到谁是输入法老大。

Google输入法的事情已经快2周了,没想到俺不写Blog竟然也会被人骂。写Google输入法是收了搜狗的钱,不写则是被Google公关了,真牛B的说法。反正都是收了钱,就没什么态度可言了,我的态度和给本周TW周刊写的关于输入法的内容一样,贴上来玩玩。

Google是神,谷歌是什么?以前,不少G粉表示,是Google粉丝,但不是谷歌粉丝,就表明了一些态度。上周,Google抄袭的质疑铺天盖地,但是还有很多读者心存侥幸,但是当周一Google中国发了一个声明表示抱歉后,搜狐也不示弱,以召开新闻发布会对抗,而在此时,Google中国则在黑板报上正式向搜狐道歉。

Google从神台上下来了吗?搜狐获胜了吗?实际上,都是一种集体意淫而已。对于Google来说,抄袭当然不光彩而且可耻,但是如果要认错,就应该趁早,而不是让人感觉每次都是被迫认罪,坦白从宽。对于搜狐来说,咄咄逼人当然是一种策略,不过,无论如何中国是一个宽容的国度,我们都习惯于原谅认错的孩子,得了便宜适当卖乖,可能是一种更好的方式。否则,满城尽是输入法,最后就只会让人恶心。

IT行业的口水争论,一直都是意淫的杰作,作为普通网友,有多少人去关注是否抄袭的问题?他们的关注的更多的是功能、使用习惯等问题,就像一个记者说的,其实,80%的读者翻到报纸的IT版都是一扫而过,比起谷歌与Google、搜狗与搜狐的关系,他们更关心基金、股市。

生活需要意淫,就像我们经常需要阿Q精神一样,但是意淫过度就会影响正常的工作了。

PS:谷歌输入法的产品经理该不是被Kill吧,现在这个输入法一堆Bug也不来改进。

2007年4月14日星期六

[SOFT]搜狗输入法之父:创意最初给百度 被李彦宏忽视

搜狗拼音输入法最初创意者马占凯说:“我当时觉得把输入法的创意传达给李彦宏希望渺茫.由于我使用搜狐邮箱,比较熟悉,第二个机会我选择了搜狐.”

4月12日下午15时35分,拿起听筒的马占凯仍显得有些局促,似乎不知道该如何应付记者的采访,处于搜狗因Google抄袭该公司输入法词库新闻事件的旋涡之中,作为搜狗拼音输入法最初的创意者难免要出语谨慎. 两年前的6月,23岁的马占凯做了人生中一个重要决定,放弃在太原某国企的工作.当时虽然不懂技术,但他平常爱上网,爱搜索各种杂七杂八的内容,他发现很多字难以在当前输入法中打出来,比如“周杰伦”,比如“泰坦尼克号”,至此,他越发认定网民日常搜索的新闻高频词汇应该扩充到输入法的方向没错,于是有了搜索输入法的创意. 马占凯给百度发去第一封信,是那一年的8月5日.那时的马已经只身来到北京,在信中,他阐述了自己对于搜索输入法的创意.当日,百度在美国纳斯达克火热上市.

而在马占凯的记忆中,那一年的夏天,互联网界发生了3件大事:百度上市、李开复去了Google,雅虎中国和阿里巴巴合并.大事频发的互联网让马占凯看到了自己的机会.为了能让信件顺利转到百度相关负责人手里,马占凯特意发给了他在网上搜索到百度某部门的邮箱,第一封石沉大海,第二封寥寥几字,“感谢你使用百度.”发到第四封邮件时,回复仍是“感谢你使用百度产品,谢谢你的建议.” “我当时觉得把输入法的创意传达给李彦宏希望渺茫,我认定最好的输入法将来肯定是搜索引擎做出来的,然后我决定把这个输入法的创意提给第二个搜索引擎公司.由于我使用搜狐邮箱,比较熟悉,第二个机会我选择了搜狐.”不久,搜狐公司的负责人约他到公司面谈.为了这个面试,他疯狂地准备3天时间,写了“100个改善搜索引擎小创意”,提出自己只要够在北京生活费用的工资.面谈的两天后,他正式被搜狐聘用.

马占凯现在的职位是搜狗拼音输入法的产品经理,实际工作仍是产品代表,随时从用户角度研究用户输入文字的习惯,他当然没有想到两年后,自己创意的小小输入法竟惹来业界的一场大风波. 事实上搜索引擎巨鳄谷歌也对这类桌面产品的搜索市场觊觎良久,尽管短期内桌面搜索还看不到盈利,但搜索巨头们还是在不遗余力地争夺这块市场. 如今搜索业务的竞争已经寸土必争,甚至被视为富裕者的游戏,游戏的门槛越来越高,市场状况是,搜索市场分为两大阵营,而第二阵营与百度、谷歌的第一阵营差距巨大,更关键的问题是,第二阵营采用各种方法推广自己的效果并不明显,如阿里巴巴集团去年不惜斥重金3000万元,力邀陈凯歌、冯小刚、张纪中三大导演打造雅虎搜索广告.究其原因在于,互联网注重的是体验而非认知,输入法结合搜索直接关系到使用者的体验,对推广搜索业务也许更有帮助,而在此前推广搜索的成功案例仍是和体验有关的百度知道.

所以,如搜狐、谷歌这样的大公司却为这样的“小”问题投入这么多精力并打得不亦乐乎也就不足为怪了. 而更加诱惑搜索引擎商们的是,当桌面搜索发展得足够成熟时,完全可以取代目前的门户网站,成为未来用户在桌面上的门户.这样一来,非但树立了搜索品牌刺激了业务增长,还有望颠覆微软在桌面上的统治地位,成就一番自己的“伟业”.

就在马占凯向记者回忆搜索输入的往事的时候,他的老板、一身休闲装的搜狐董事长张朝阳正在接待六七个海外投资人,事后,张朝阳告诉记者:“刚才投资人问了输入法的专利问题,我回答说的确是Google侵犯了搜狐的知识产权,这可是专利权、版权之争.谷歌拼音输入法对我们口头传播近两年的搜狗拼音品牌有很大的影响.”而对于这个他“誓死捍卫”的产品的“钱景”,张一脸乐观:“与互联网结合输入法是搜狐快速成长的独门技术,每个用电脑的人都要用啊,上网、写博客、聊天,这可是客户端的源头,代表互联网应用的新方向,转为商业利益是早晚的事情.”

2006年6月5日,搜狗输入法第一版本正式推出,据了解,在其推出前,搜狗就为自己的创意和技术申报了多项专利.2006年7月,搜狐公司技术副总裁王小川还特别给马占凯颁了技术部的最高奖励“犀牛奖”,此前只有搜狗音乐提出歌词同步的同事获过此奖,奖金没有透露,大概是马占凯3个月的工资,马的工作在一年后得到公司上下一致认可.

“二者的争端还是这种用户量极大的桌面工具,目前除了扩大自己的品牌还看不到任何实际利益,不过搜索的收入模式已相对成熟,的确需要新的创新应用.”某业内人士如是分析. “谷歌的拼音输入法实际是捆绑Gmail使用的,其最大的功能就是绑定你的邮件地址,只要你用这个邮箱,你可以在任意一台电脑上使用你的常用词汇,不需在单独下载输入法,它会自动记忆你的书写习惯.”谷歌中国公司产品公关人员崔瑾告诉记者,公司早已停止了侵权的词库应用,而谷歌的拼音输入法依然会推广下去.

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说“之父”是因为是指他创造性的提出了搜狗输入法的核心--通过搜索来收集得到拼音输入法的核心--词库。现在拼音输入法的竞争,说实话就是词库的竞争,功能上已经没有秘密而言。这个想法绝对是一个非常好的想法,创造力的表现,为什么那么多人都抱着恶毒的观点来评论呢?现在的互联网就是这样,只要你有好的想法,你就离成功近了一步,与其把你的脑筋放在谩骂、嫉妒上,不如想想别人怎么做到了,你为什么没有做到。我发现中国互联网,乃至整个中国最大的问题就是嫉妒,充斥着这种嫉妒心态,最大的原罪。


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从前有个男同志,有个特长,有多长呢,长到别人见过他之后,虽然大多数都记不住他的脸,但是一定会记住他的特长。这个男同志的特长就是有一个长得像菊花的屁眼,好看异常,并且滑溜。本来他觉得这东西出了大便的时候顺畅一点不会动不动长痔疮之外,也算不上什么特别的优点。
直到有一天,他遇上了他。
男同志遇到了一个强奸犯,把他菊花一样的屁眼给用了。
强奸犯当然被人捉住了,在事实面前他只能承认自己的错误并做了并不深刻的检讨。而一阵痛苦之后,男同志就发现了自己优于别人的地方,于是他整天不穿裤子,指着自己的屁眼在大街上跑来跑去,一边跑一边还喊:好用好用,菊花一样曾引发强奸的屁眼!
这个男同志叫搜狗,那个强奸犯叫谷歌。
是的,当时就是这样。

2007年4月5日星期四

[SOFT]Vista上重现2000经典输入法漏洞,罪魁祸首谷歌

昨天发布的谷歌拼音输入法,安装在Vista上之后会重现当年经典的Windows 2000 输入法漏洞..可以在右键菜单中调用系统程序,不需要密码的情况下取得system权限.


2007年3月12日星期一

[SOFT]WindowsVista新完美“激活”方式登场

  Vista从诞生之初便是全球破解爱好者的攻击目标,而目前最“时兴”的新激活方式名为“Timerstop t2a”。
  Timerstop t2a能够让你的Vista试用版在30天试用期到期后自动重新计数——让Vista的激活最后期限无限延长。
  据称,该“延长激活期限”方式已经证实适用于所有Windows Vista版本,而且通过这种方式激活的Vista版本可以直接进入Windows Update,甚至下载Ultimate Extras、进行互联网时间同步并且下载微软下载中心的免费软件等。
  这种新激活方式比此前的激活方式更为傻瓜,能够自动安装所需的TimerStop.sys驱动。
  有兴趣的朋友可以点击这里查看详细步骤、下载Timerstop安装程序——当然,仅限研究。

2007年3月10日星期六

[SOFT]Adobe新技术 可侦测图片是否被PS

  Photoshop的东家Adobe公司正在开发多项新技术,这些技术将可以轻松判断一张图片是否已经被别人“PS”过,网络上的恶搞图片也将现出原形. 

Adobe公司的人士日前对媒体披露,他们的“先进技术实验室”正在开发多款用于判断图片修改痕迹的工具,其研发工作还得到了英国多特茂斯大学教授、图片真伪判断专家法里德的协助.  其中一个工具名叫“克隆工具侦测器”,它可以判断一张图片上的一部分像素是否来自于同一张图片上的其它区域,不过,这一工具目前还难以准确判断两个物品是否是克隆而成.

值得一提的是,去年,英国路透社曾经爆出一桩新闻,该社一名摄影记者修改了黎巴嫩贝鲁特的战争场面照片,手段就是用克隆工具克隆爆炸燃起的黑烟.

另外一个工具名叫“真实像素”(Truth Dots),它可以判断一些真实场景的像素从照片中消失,用户可以借此判断某张照片是否经过了裁减处理.

  本月月底,Adobe公司将发布最新的Photoshop CS3,不过该公司人士没有证实,这些侦测修改痕迹的工具是否会被集成到新版软件中.

2007年2月24日星期六

[SOFT]BT终于踏上正途?

据国外媒体报道,美国大名鼎鼎的P2P文件交换工具厂商BitTorrent将于2月26日(周一)发布一个正版下载网站“BT娱乐网络”,此举被媒体视作BT“从良”的里程碑事件。BT娱乐网络目前已经和多家好莱坞片商、电视台等媒体公司签约,将提供大约5000多部影视剧集. 早在去年开始,在和好莱坞之间的盗版传播官司结束之后,BT便和华纳娱乐公司签约,通过其文件交换软件发行正版内容。
  媒体分析认为,在最近兴起的视频热潮中,BT将成为一个有力的竞争者,因为他们在P2P文件交换技术方面处于领先地位,另外已经成为十分知名的品牌。据统计,BT软件的全球下载数量已经达到了1.35亿。
  值得一提的是,就在几天前,Skype两位创始人发起的P2P网络电视软件Joost获得了维亚康母集团的正版内容授权。Joost和Youtube都将成为BT娱乐网络的竞争对手。
  BT公司表示,他们的下载网站将和iTunes等不同,采用P2P模式,下载速度也更快。不过,为了保护内容厂商的版权,他们将使用数字版权保护技术。不过,有关正版内容如何采用P2P模式提供下载,该公司并未披露技术细节。

2007年2月23日星期五

[SOFT]使用WindowsVista 19个月仍感新鲜

Windows Vista - 19 months of usage and counting

February 23rd, 2007
Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 3:18 am

ZDNet Blog



I downloaded my first beta of Windows Vista on July 27th 2005. Over that 19 month period I've been making increasing use of Vista platform. In a few weeks I hope that all the main rigs here at the PC Doc HQ will be running Vista and that XP (along with Windows 2000 will be relegated to test machines and VMware installs).

Since my blogging colleague George Ou posted his Week one report card for Vista, I thought it would be interesting to share with you some of my thoughts and feelings about the platform having been using it for over a year and a half.

Interface

First off, the interface. Let me just start off by saying that by the time Vista RTM was released, the Vista interface no longer felt new or different to me. I've spent a long time with Vista on one PC and running another PC with XP Pro on it via remote desktop. Since I run a dual monitor rig I can have Vista in one screen and XP in the other and I've been able to compare and contrast the Vista with XP over a number of beta releases. I think that it was very beneficial to be able to go through all the beta releases for Vista and see how the platform evolved from being a tweaked XP into what Vista is now.

From an efficiency point of view, Vista beats XP hands down (I'd also say that it beats Mac OS X too, but I've been using Vista a lot longer than Mac OS for that to be a fair comparison). It's the small things that make the difference - the improved Start Menu (which a lot of people hate because it involves scrolling - my tip is to get a scrolling mouse and learn how to use it), improved search, the larger, more detailed icons (which are a real eye saver if you run at screen resolutions of 1280 x 1024 and above).

Aero is nice but it's not an essential aspect of Vista. Yes, it's pretty and yes, it is eye candy, but I'm still running it (and I used to be someone who would cut down on most of the cheesy effects that were contained in the XP theme). What Aero does is for the first time give you a truly 2.5D desktop in Windows.

Another surprise is the the fact that I still have the sounds switched on. With all versions prior to Vista the first thing I used to do was kill the sounds because they were intrusive and annoying. Vista is a lot better and so far the sounds have survived (with the exception of that annoying startup sound!). The fonts are also nice and readable and improve the overall usability of the operating system, as does ClearType (a feature that I was never all that fond of on XP).

I'm not going to pretend that Vista's interface is a million miles ahead of XP's. It's not. Put the two systems side-by-side and there are a lot of similarities (elements such as the Quick Launch toolbar and the System Tray are pretty much unchanged). What I would say is that Microsoft has made the interface tweaks where they were needed and kept other things the same.

Stability

From a stability point of view I've found Vista to be very good from the start. Some of the early betas had a lot of rough edges but most of these were worked out pretty early on. That's to to say I've not had my fair share of issues.

Throughout the beta testing I felt that the graphics card drivers shipped (certainly for ATI GPUs) were pretty poor. Yes, they were fine for standard desktop work but sucked for gaming. Only in recent weeks have solid drivers been released by the manufacturers and certainly where ATI is concerned the drivers that you can download from ATI are far superior to those that are shipped with Windows Vista.

However, graphics card drivers aside and I think that Microsoft has done an excellent job of bundling many of the drivers that users will need. They're basic and lack the refinements and extra features that the manufacturer's driver will have but they work. Since the beta 2 of Vista I've not had to install any drivers in order to get Vista up and running (with the exception of drivers and apps for my Hauppauge WinTV card - might have to buy a new one unless Hauppauge gets a shake on and releases Vista compatible drivers for older cards).

Crashes and lockups on Vista are few and far between. With some of the early betas I found that games were particularly prone to lockup but with the RTM release I'm finding that most applications I've tried are pretty well behaved under Vista. The rumors and FUD that you have to chuck away your old apps is unfounded. Some programs still have problems with Vista but the blame for this really falls on the vendor and not Microsoft.

Is Vista more stable that XP? Hard to tell as I don't have a lot of problems with XP but I do feel that Vista is on the whole more robust.

On the overclocking front I've had no problems taking a Pentium 950D up from the stock speed of 3.4GHz up to 4.1GHz with no ill effects. Maybe I'm seeing the effects of having a nice and stable ASUS motherboard.

Upgrading

I'm not going to pretend for one moment that upgrading to Vista is going to be 100% pain-free. If you have older software or hardware that you rely on then you need to be careful and test thoroughly. If you are blitzing your existing XP system in order to go up to Vista then having an image of your system is a good idea.

Another thing to be mindful of is Vista system requirements. I've written at great length about this before and I'm still standing by my belief that the base requirements for a Vista Capable PC is too low. While you can run Vista on a system with 512MB of RAM and a low-end CPU, it's not fun. If your PC is having a hard time running XP, it's not a good idea to upgrade. If your PC is running XP but it's sluggish then steer clear of Vista.

If you want to run the Aero interface and your graphics card isn't on the list of ones that support it then you're going to want an upgrade there too. If your PC is running on an "on-board" graphics card then the chances of getting Aero running is at best slim and you'll need a separate card. Fortunately Aero-compatible graphics cards aren't all that expensive. However it's worth while factoring this into the cost of upgrading.

Performance

Is Vista faster than XP? To be honest that's a tough question to answer. If you compare a new install of XP with a new install of Vista on similar hardware then the experience seems about the same.

Some aspects of Vista, for example the new media player and the new Photo Gallery viewer do feel faster, but as for the rest of the OS it's debatable whether it's faster or not. However, two aspects of Vista which are much faster than XP is system startup and shutdown. The system takes about 12 seconds to boot up and 3 to 5 seconds to shutdown - a huge improvement over XP. It remains to be seen if this effect will last though. As more software gets installed and the detritus starts to build I expect these times to increase (I'll be surprised if they don't).

Another performance upside of Windows Vista is the ability to plug a USB flash drive into a free USB port and make use of ReadyBoost. This isn't a substitute for having the CPU power and enough RAM to run Vista, but it is nice when you're pushing your system harder than usual.

Bugs?

Are there bugs? Yes. I've not encountered all that many but I'm sure that they're there. What I can say quite honestly is that there seem to be far fewer bugs in Vista then there were in XP when it was released.

Is it Worth Upgrading?

Everyone's different and there's no such thing as a standard user. Everyone has different needs and wants. Having been using Vista for over 18 months I believe that it's a huge improvement over XP and even though I still use XP I find that I miss many of the features that Vista offers.

However, I wouldn't call any of the changes earth-shattering. When I'm using XP systems I miss some of the features but not so much that they push me to upgrade any faster. Microsoft wants users to put down a lot of money for Vista when XP still has plenty of life in it. If you like living on the edge and want the latest then Vista is a must, but if you're happy with XP or you are the kind of person that doesn't actually use the OS that much, then you're probably safe holding back and waiting until you buy a new PC before getting Vista.