Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
There was big news in the tech world today as sources within Google let it be known that the company was moving away from using Windows on its workstations. At RightSite, we can only say, "What took you so long?" As reported today in the Financial Times, Google has put ...
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
As followers of this blog may know, RightSite was built using a content management system called Drupal, a development platform that seems to be going thermo-nuclear here in 2010. While I have seen numerous examples of famous sites the world over being built in Drupal, including the official White House ...
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Most folks can only count on death and taxes. If you are managing a startup, then you get a bonus -- you can count on death, taxes and at least one system failure a week. By necessity, most startups run on the cheap. We forgo expensive systems and big teams ...
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
[gallery link="file" columns="4"] One of the key factors in the whether a startup is successful is how effectively the team collaborates in accomplishing their goals. At RightSite we are a small team producing a very big website so we are always looking for tools that help us to share information ...
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
While we may have created a few dodgy budgets at RightSite, we still haven't figured out how to create a subversive spreadsheet. Despite this, it seems that while Google docs are accessible in China today, any of the spreadsheets that you may have created are not.
At this time, we are ...
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
It's Saturday in Shanghai and that makes it time to celebrate another victory at RightSite. We completed another week of productive work under substandard conditions. We successfully produced a our latest newsletter, got about 90 new property listings added to our directory, and have gained considerable ground on completing our ...
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
It's been a while since I checked in here at Mingtiandi, but that's only because of how much work we've had to do building RightSite.asia.
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One of the benefits of building RightSite has been getting the opportunity to find out more about some ...
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
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The highways of China are littered with the roadkill carcasses of foreign Internet giants who stumbled, staggered, and got left for dead in their quest for the world's biggest Internet audience. eBay, Google and Yahoo have all ...
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
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LinkedIn is a social networking site for professionals worldwide. It provides people with the opportunity to share knowledge, promote their credentials and keep in touch. At RightSite, it is providing us with free tool for increasing our referral traffic by more ...
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Sunday, March 29th, 2009
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We are wrapping up a busy month at RightSite and the focus this month has been on team-building. We've added three new team members and interviewed more than 60 people. But as always, we have tried to do all of ...
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