Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
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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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
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It's another day of interrupted, or at best intermittent, Google service in China today which makes it difficult for us to operate here at RightSite. In addition to the Google Docs issue that I referred to yesterday, ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
I love Google Docs. We use Google Documents for sharing files across RightSite.Asia and it has help us work together more efficiently. Until this week.
This week we have often been unable to access our Google documents
When we have been able to access our Google documents, we have at times not ...
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Saturday, January 17th, 2009
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We've finished another week here at RightSite, and besides completing our performance appraisals, we also seem to have figured out our trixbox-based phone system.
After looking into various equipment options, we've made some decisions and ordered some ...
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
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I hate switchboards. This ubiquitous piece of office hardware has always seemed to be the biggest equipment rip-off that any business owner has to suffer. Paying lots of cash for a primitive switching system that comes ...
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