Social Networking is amazing

Social networking (through internet) is amazing in that our contact withs anyone in the world cann’t be limited. Blogging is certainly a wonderful way of social networking to access others thoughts and experience.
Through a few clicks i accessed to a few current chinese MBA students at Berkeley. I believe they enbrace the idea to share their thoughts and learning experience through their blogs.

I’d like to share their links here and their study and life with Berkeley Haas Business school for sure are very interesting and tempting.

楠木：http://www.nduan.com/ ; http://www.bayjinger.com/
丁峰：http://www.fengdingcn.org/blog/
Haas Tech Club: http://haastechclub.blogspot.com/

I should seriouly try my best to give a shoot for Haas.

Come accross a post about career advices which is really meaningful. Refer to http://www.bayjinger.com/2009/10/20/career-advice-from-qi-lu-president-of-microsoft-online-services/

As for career advice, Qi was like an encyclopedia of idioms and metaphors-

* Chance favors the prepared. (Always work hard.)
* Opportunities are like buses – if you miss one, there’s always the next one. (So don’t worry and always look ahead!)
* No bus will take you straight to your end goal. Think about “will this bus get me closer?” instead of “will this bus get me there?” (Think about your career in phases, and work towards intermediate goals which will help you get closer to your long-term goal. I really, really liked this metaphor.)
* Keep your head above the cloud, and your feet on the ground. (Have the big vision, and work hard consistently.)
* Make yourself uncomfortable. (Push yourself out of your comfort zone – if you’re comfortable, you’re not learning.)
* Be good at letting things go. (Be willing and open to sharing.)

Telecom trends in next 10 years (2)

Let’s get into the details of one of these four trends—digital home

Iphone has leaded the innovative breakthrough in handset and drive the mobile internet a big step. Everyone to be connected to internet anytime anywhere isn’t just a fairy tale. But what’s next?

It’s digital home. In the last ten years, people are having analog TV to LED TV, a tape recorder to DVD or even hard driver recorder. However telecom hasn’t changed the home scenario very much in term of interaction between different devices.

Imagine this: all the electronic devices (such as TV, set-top box, recorder, PC, media phone) at home can “talk to each other” and be controlled by a core device ”smart kit’. All the devices are connected by wifi and all the contents at different devices can be shared seamless. Just by one flick, the contents you are reading at your phone can synchronized to TV simultaneously. Furthermore, with home Gateway, all your devices at home can access internet through fix or wireless. And vice verse be accessed by the devices outside of home. Basically you can take all your contents at home with you and control most of devises remotely through digital home solution.

So what are the benefits for our life? First, it brings us convenience. Easy sharing contents through wifi free us from copying from one device to another. Easy access allows us to retreat what we want remotely. Second, it provides us fantastic user experience. Almost everything can be done by one flick.

And how about telecom operators? The convenience of accessing the content seamless and without the limitation of time and distance will drive users to consume more bandwidth. While the growth of speed/bandwidth is the growth of the whole telecom industry. So the digital may become an application to sustain and consume the growing speed/bandwidth capacity.

What makes above happen is the key technology name “dlna’. Google it!

Telecom trends in next 10 years (1)

Let’s start the first series: telecom trends in next 10 years. I’ve worked in this industry for 3 years which doesn’t give enough credit to say i’m a expert. But i did see rapid change in telecom and just want to share my cents. 3 years ago, most of peopel just use phone to make calls and hence voice business can account up to 80% of operators’ revenue; also most of handsets don’t have complex functions and cann’t be treated as smart digital terminals. Now what are the greatest changes? First wireless boardband provides opportunity for anyone to be connected to internet anywhere; Second smart phone (Android, blackberrey and iphone[most exceptional]) give us the best platform and tools to use the wireless boardband. Plus the abundant apps change the whole business model. Why? Apps means services and now along with the margin of equipment decreased dramatically, only services can differatiated youself. And what makes Apps exceptional? Because it stands for one of the trends-Cloud Computing.

Let’s see what professional said about the telecom trends in next 10 years. Who can claim to be professional and trustworthy? I would suggest they are.  Top 5 telecom vendors: Ericsson, Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Siemens, Motorola.  Furthermore top telecom operators should have some words about it as well.  They are Vodafone, China Mobile, NTT Docomo and AT&T.

But let’s start one by one. I’d like to pick the one who i’m most familar with. Here is what Huawei believe.

Beyond 2010: Four Trends that Will Shape the Next Decade of Telecom.
1.Beyond population, the Internet of Things is creating a subscriber base of 50 billion.
2. Beyond voice communications, booming mobile broadband is the next engine of telecom.
3. Beyond bitpipe, cloud computing brings new opportunities driven by a new business model.
4. Beyond telecom, home networks will open new markets to operators because of the disruptive user experience.

See the link for the detail.
http://www.huawei.com/innovations/industry_trend_2010

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I’m planning to write a series of following topics. But of course i have to do it one by one. Show your interest and enthusiasm to certain topics. With the most vote, the topic will get a quicker start.

Brand name

Today i chatted with one client who did his MBA 10 years ago. His idea about MBA is that in fact MBA is a brand name of you. It’s like a stamp on you or even joke a little bit “you are make in ?”.  Futher, I talked about my plan and he gave me some advices.  But things has changed quite a lot in 10 years.

He mentioned i’m working in a rising company which is getting brand name. In fact I didn’t realize that strongly. Yes, it’s true that  my current employer is the most respectful high-tech company in China and has most successful records in globalization of its business.  But how about the employees’ satisfaction? How about career prospective? So i start to question about how to evaluate the brand name. What’s the most valuable brand in the world? How would my current company compare to these well-known companies?

I’ll spend some time on this topic and hope to get more to share in a few days.