Part of the appeal of the particular trip I chose to join was that it included a trip to Tibet. Specifically, we flew to Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region. It’s a very different place from Beijing or Chengdu, and not without some challenges.
UPDATE: Photos from Tibet!
I’m taking off the second half of July to take a vacation to China. The internet access situation here isn’t too bad, so I’m posting what I can, when I can. Here’s an update for my first few days, complete with photos.
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Guess who said this in a recent interview:
Technology is shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite. Now it’s the people who are taking control.
Imagine a personalized portal, customized to your interests and needs. It could have content from major sources that were based upon what you liked and didn’t like. Okay, big deal, there are lots of these, the most popular of which seems to be My Yahoo. But, now imagine that instead of just pushing the same stories, links, and Yahoo content, it allowed anyone to put any RSS feed they like onto the page. Yup, Google and Yahoo allow that, sure. But imagine it’s at Netscape.com, and the year is 1999. You’ve got the original My Netscape, which brought us something no less innovative and essential to the Web 2.0 experience than RSS.
When I arrived at AOL in 2001, various groups in the company were developing no less than 3 (three!) different web server platforms. Why did we have so many, what ever happened to them, and what were they all about, anyway?
Hello! I’m Jacob Rosenberg, and I work in AOL’s Operations group. I started this blog to get into the conversation about what’s going on in the industry, and to give back to the community which has grown up on the Internet.
