If there were an all-in-one SNS service

It would provide:

• an external personal information portal, through which other people could get this person’s profile easily. Concretely, this might be a blogging intermedium, or a complete blogging space;
• an internal personal information portal, through which he himself could access lastest news, weblog subscriptions, mailboxes, search results, and even everything. RSS feed aggregator is a good example for this;
• a powerful networking mechanism(foaf, community, interest, tag);
• an audio/video P2P communication tool;
• …

For now, Google has Blogger, orkut. But both are unsatisfactory. This is absolutely true for me at least – thinking about the inaccessible blogspot, and so few functions with orkut. Comparatively speaking, Microsoft has MSN Spaces, My MSN, wallop(though it exists for experimental purposes), MSN Messenger. Yahoo has only My Yahoo!(but it is the first internal personal information portal with RSS support). It seems M$ has surpassed Google.

So, big guys, come on. Grab these goodies: Six Apart(Movable Type and LiveJournal company), WordPress, Bloglines, Friendster, Meetup, Skype.

P.S. //addoil uuzone~

Snow, firecracker, sticky rice ball

It snows again! The large-sized flakes danced in the lamp light, elegantly and fairily. It was just a beautiful picture for me when I was waiting for the No. 386 bus. I like the snow. But at the same time, the snow totally hid the moon up. Yes, it’s Lantern Festival today. The moonlight should be very nice if the sky was clear.

The coming of Lantern Festival indicates the ending of Chinese lunar new year celebration. So I can hear that firecrackers popped here and there, although it has been forbidden within the 5th ring road by the government. And some of the burglar alarms of cars were raised, making noises along with the firecrackers.

Binbin bought us sticky rice balls at the No. 10 Daoxiangcun sales department. It’s amzing that all the kinds of stuffing are my favorite ones: black sesame seeds and walnut, creamy coconut paste, sweet-scented hawthorn…

P.S. Differences between Yuanxiao and Tangyuan:
They look similar regarding to color and shape. Actually Yuanxiao comes from north China. Tangyuan comes from south. Yuanxiao is usually made by rolling in a bamboo sieve, while Tangyuan is folded with bare hands, and tastes much softer than Yuanxiao.

Talking about that snowy day

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white headlights and red rear lights of cars and trucks on the North 4th Ring Road;
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slippery sidewalk with a thin layer of snow on it;
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