Chinese sayings about kissing and reputation…
The first one sounds beautiful, romantic and is probably true, the second is the one that anyone should follow in his life. Reputation and others’ judgement don’t matter. What matters is to make your own life happy and, by the way, make others’ life as happy as possible. It might sound a little selfish, but I think that if you reach your own happiness, you will make all the people you love happy.
Enough talk, here are the chinese quotes:
“Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases”
“Don’t consider your reputation and you may do anything you like”
You can also discover famous sayings by Lao Zi here and there
Nicolas Quotes, english chinese sayings, english, love, Quotes
From now on, and since that first article, I will try to find the most famous chinese proverbs, well at least those I like the most, and share all these quotations with you. There will be really short ones, but it doesn’t matter, chinese philosophers didn’t really need many words to say wise sentences.
« Running a large country is like cooking a small fish. »
I’m not a philosopher and I might not understand the meaning of this sentence from Lao Zi, but I guess it means that each of us has talents, skills, and even a man who can run a country might not be able to cook a fish.
Nicolas Quotes, english english, Lao Zi, philosopher, proverbs, Quotes
I’m not really used to talk about myself and my personnal thoughts here, first because I don’t really like it, second because I don’t know what and how to write. I’m not going to start today, but there is just a famous quote from Lao Zi that I appreciate so much that… I just wanted to share it…
« Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream. »
Sounds so close to the way I feel and try to behave… Smart guy that Lao Zi!
Nicolas Quotes, english Lao Zi, philosophy, quote, taoism
Some changes in clixpy pricelist. The price of captures is getting really affordable now! Give it a try by clicking on the image on the right, or have a deeper look here.
This is really a very useful tool to understand visitors’ behavior on your website and, as a consequence, improve its usability to improve its efficiency.
Nicolas Technique, Web, english clixpy, development, english, tracking, usability, Web
CHINICT is an international conference hosted in Beijing. Founded by Frank Nazikian a few years ago, this conference aims at gathering people around sharing that entrepreneurship state of mind and create synergies between all of them.
Here is a short part of an interview of Frank Nazikian, in december, in which he explains how he came up with that amazing idea of CHINICT :
[…] I quickly understood that I didn’t understand anything. I didn’t understand the country, the culture, I had no network. I didn’t know “who was who.” In China, relationships are important. This is not that unique to China. In all countries I’ve worked in, it is very important to know who you can trust or not trust.
My conclusion was that I needed to get connected to the main players in the field. I proceeded to organize an event that I would have wanted to go to, with the right players in six key categories:
- Government
- Media
- Venture capital
- Stock exchange
- Service providers (lawyers/accountants)
- Fortune 100 sized Information Technology companies
Great idea, isn’t it?
This year, CHINICT 2009 will see some of these stars:
- Gary Locke, US Secretary of Commerce
- Zhao Fengtong, Vice Mayor, Beijing Municipal Government
- Michael Barbalas President, American Chamber of Commerce
- Serge Abou, EU Ambassador to China
- Steve Ballmer - Microsoft CEO (video intervention)
- Nigel Burton - Microsoft General Manager Evangelism
- John Spelich, VP International Corporate Affairs - Alibaba
- Cheng Bing Hao, CEO - Kaixin001
- James Liu, COO of Oak Pacific Interactive - Xiaonei
- Andy Yao, VP - 51
- ZhiKang Dai - Discuz / Manyou
- Victor Koo, CEO - Youku
- Gary Wang, CEO - Tudou
- Michael Chi, CEO - Perfect World
- Inga Han, Deputy Director - Nyse-Euronext
- Simon Zhang, Managing Director - London Stock Exchange / AIM
- Guang Xun Xu - Managing Director Nasdaq
- Kejian Chao, Managing Director - Shanghai Stock Exchange
- Ren Guang Ming - Managing Director - Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- Jimmy Wales, Co-Founder of Wikipedia
- Andrew Lih, Author
I’ll have the pleasure to attend to that conference and eventually meet some of these guys next Thursday, just after my flight!
Nicolas Chine, english China, CHINICT, entrepreneurs
Clipxy is a very useful tool for anyone who owns a website. It lets you track everything a visitor is doing on you page, clicks, mouse movements, during a whole session. It looks like they are not providing any aggregated information (like a summuray of users’ behavior on a page) but I guess they can make something like that quite fast.
With this tracking system, you can learn a lot about what users are doing on your website and, eventually, make changes to improve you website usability.
Clixpy installation is reaaaaally simple. Subscribe and get an account in less than a minute, copy paste the javascript code and it’s live. No need to wait 3 hours to get your first sessions!
The first 10 sessions are free, then you have to invest some of your money to enjoy it everyday!
Have fun!
Nicolas Technique, english english, tracking, Web Development, website usability, work
Yesterday I wrote about that website to buy and sell Twitter usernames. Today is a little bit more romantic Twitter oriented website, yet nothing really useful. TweetAndLove.com lets you send a love message to your lover and publish it on Twitter.
In a pink and heart-filled design, this website takes Twitter as a vehicle to spread love and kindness all over the web. Cute! Their Twitter profile is twitter.com/woxiangni
I am wondering when Twitter effect is gonna end…
Nicolas Inclassable, english love, tweetandlove, twitter
Twitter is really hype! There’s not even one day without its new Twitter client application or any other Twitter-connected service.
This time, there another idea trying to make money out of Twitter. It’s called Tweexchange and is basically a service that let you sell and buy twitter usernames. It’s soon gonna be like .com domain names, and if you got a two or three letters username, you’ll probably rich after a few years!
Wanna hunt a new username? Good luck!
Nicolas Inclassable, english english, tweexchange, twitter
Yesterday a Great News for the world of education in China was announced by @druiz on Twitter: the release of the new version of uuxuu.net, the chinese most efficient platform for teachers to find students, and the easiest and fastest way for students to find the best teachers in any subject, just next to their door.
On uuxuu.net, it’s as simple as picking a lesson category, find your location on the map and you’re done! You get a list of all the lessons in your close neighborhood and you just need to subscribe to attend to a class!
Now it’s easy to study any subject in China!
uuxuu.net is a Beijing based company aiming at providing easy to use platform to gather teachers and students around nice places, anywhere in China.
Nicolas Chine, Services utiles, english China, education, finding student, finding teacher, uuxuu.net
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