Monthly Archives: December 2010

Dictionary.com buying Lingt!

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Carole (code name 烤肉)

After months of inactivity (no new features added, no reply on the feedback board) Lingt finally announced tonight it will close its service in Feb 2011 as it has just been acquired by dictionary.com Lingt is a free online flashcard system to lear… Continue reading →

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2 Must read articles and 2 must follow blogs about Tech industry and community in Beijing 2010

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Carole (code name 烤肉)

If you are interested in tech and are curious to know what has been going on in China this year, here are some materials and comments to sum-up the current landscape:Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Beijing (Jan. 2010, Dana Oshiro, ReadWriteWeb.com)T… Continue reading →

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Why Pearltrees will replace Google

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Carole (code name 烤肉)

When Google replaced Yahoo, it was because everyone believed in directory (monetized with ads) while the next big thing was actually search (but we didn’t know how to monetize it yet). Today search is a big deal with big player fighting over like … Continue reading →

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The French model of CoWorking Space: La Cantine

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Carole (code name 烤肉)

I first heard about CoWorking from Olof, following up on Mike’s project when he started the CoWorking meeting in Auhust 2010. Because of the crazy renting fee in the Chinese capital, Beijing CoWorking was (and still is) just a newsletter that you … Continue reading →

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Lunch Networking by GirlzInWeb and Women’s World Wide Web

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Carole (code name 烤肉)

Taking advantage to my holidays trip to Paris, I decided to check out the Parisian Tech community and, why not the Women Parisian Tech community? So I went today to this Lunch Networking at the CoWorking space LaCantine (which I will write about l… Continue reading →

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