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The Best Hats of the Royal Wedding

 What's with their hats? Why most women of that wedding wearing hats? I think you have got to be a royal in order to dress like that. What a trend! It is absolutely unique yet beautiful..

Queen Elizabeth II - does her hat looks like a fondant cake? love the color!

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Prince William's cousins – Amelia, Eliza and Kitty

Princess Mathilde of Belgium

Princess Letizia -The Spanish princess

Lady Frederick Windsor

Santa Montefiore and Tara Palmer-Tomkinson

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Special Flowers For A Special Mom

Tell mom how much you love her everyday but don't forget to celebrate with these great Mother's Day ideas for gifts, dine out, and unique flowers of course for her special day I'm sure she would appreciate that. Mother's Day is a time of commemoration and celebration for Mom. Make sure to buy her flowers at Raleigh flower delivery that she loves to would have. Here are some great ideas for you..

This Deluxe Mom's Reward contains 12 pink roses, 5 pink alstroemeria, 7 butterfly asters, and greenery. These flowers are carefully hand-picked, tied and shipped fresh from the fields. Flowers arrive in special designed gift box with your personal message.

Other choices is this 24 Long-Stemmed Rainbow Roses; a two dozen long stemmed assorted colorful roses includes deep red to blush pink to delicate salmon tones and bright yellow. These long-stemmed roses are cut, shipped, and packed within days so they will remain bold, beautiful, and fresh when they arrive.

Tulips for Mom? You can sure have this 15 (assorted colors) tulips, stands approximately 14"tall for your mom, there may be no better flowers than this.

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Angry Birds Wants To Beat Disney in China Within 2 Years

“You must feel like a Happy Bird in past week in China, right?” I asked Peter Verstabacka, the “Mighty Eagle” of Angry Birds on the stage of GMIC where we were both sitting at the panel The Battle: Marketspace vs. Operating System. He said, “I am happy to be here, but for Angry Birds, we would not say so. In U.S, people 100% can recognize us, but in China, only 30% maybe. We need more!”

Unlike many other foreign companies which are usually “shy” to expose their Chinese strategy when they first come to China, in past one week, Peter were extremely overwhelmed by interviews talking about their local strategy, meetings with potential partners and taking photos with their exciting fans.

Angry birds are flying into China, with an ambitious plan:

• China Office – We have not decided the location yet, but it will be in either Beijing or Shanghai. It will be Rovio’s first office open in oversea market;
• Company Positioning – We are coming to China not as a mobile gaming company, and we are an entertainment company. Our competitors are companies like Disney China, Creative Power Entertaining (the producer of Happy Sheep and Grey Wolf, a very popular animation) etc.
• China team – We have got the first employee in China and we are starting recruitment soon. We are expecting 5-50 people in China office this year.
• Milestones – For this year, we will do 100millions downloads in China, which should not be difficult; in 2012, we want to the leading foreign entertainment company in China beating Disney.
• Partnership – We are open to any partnership in China. In the past week, Peter has visited varied potential partners, such as social network operators, phone manufacturers, toy makers, local app stores, ISPs etc, and he is also patient enough to talk to everyone who approached to learn the new ideas they proposed and suggested. “Yes! We should talk!” Peter did not waste any cool ideas.
• A Chinese Company – Rovio in China will be a Chinese company. We are lucky because our birds are iconic and no need to worry too much about localization. But for sure, we will have Chinese-themed Angry Birds version, using Chinese social media for marketing strategy (Note, Angry Birds has set up its official weibo accounts on Sina with 97141 followers and Tencent with 206833 followers) etc. “We are not American companies…” Peter smiled.
• From Mobile to Social – Popcap is working on local social networks to launch its social games in China. Peter admitted that Rovio will do social games too. He said, we are going to launch our own social games on a few popular international social networks by June, but for China I think we need it a few more months.

Angry or ambitious birds? How successful will Angry Birds be in China, you think? Please do leave you comments!

 

 

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1. Angry Bird’s Goal for 2011 in China: 100 million downloads, To Be The Most Copied
2. Sina microblogger ‘unearths’ 3000-year-old “Angry Bird”
3. 15-years Chinese Web, We See The Glory, Can We See The Dream?

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Labor Day Weekend Getaway? The Current State of China Online Travel Market

Amidst an exodus of city-dwellers during the Labor Day weekend, China online travel sites are fighting to secure a slice of the burgeoning individual travel market. On April 20, online tourism ordering service website, Yeex.cn. launched. Yeex.cn provides a platform for individual tourism and comprehensive route solutions by offering a variety of tourist resort products and promoting high quality group/individual travel routines and packages.

That came after the launch of Ctrip’s subsidiary site Lvping.com in early 2011, 17u.com rebranding in March, Tuniu‘s Series C funding and LvMama launching a “travel strategy” section. According to a report on Chinese Travel-related E-commerce from EnTravel Group, the online travel market has reached Rmb 39 billion in 2010, up 42% from 2009. It is expected to double to Rmb 68 billion or over US$10 billion by end 2012. Amongst these sites, which can capture the increasingly savvy and sophisticated Chinese travelers?

Tuniu active users 500,000, revenue reached $61.6mn (Rmb400mn) in 2010

On April 12, Tuniu.com completed a US$50 million Series C funding from Sequoia Capital, the Lotte Group, DCM, and Highland Capital Partners. Tuniu.com CEO Yu Dunde said, Tuniu has transferred from its original role of “platform” to a “whole journey companion”. Tuniu is speeding up to set points of the enclosure and entering into the buildup track.

Founded in October 2006, Tuniu has offered online travel booking services and has now expanded into 16 cities. A key differentiator from other similar sites is that Tuniu deeply engage in all the procedures of customer’s traveling to ensure the best for customer’s whole travel experience. Relying on this “whole journey companion” model, current number of Tuniu’s active users keeps around 500,000, and revenue reached Rmb400mn in 2010.

Tuniu also started to target corporates and group travels as their chief clients to provide considerate cloth-custom-tailor-like customized service. Corporate travels currently represent around 25% of Tuniu’s customer base.

Daodao.com – from TripAdvisor translation to travel online media company

When first launched, Daodao’s strategy was to translate some of the reviews on TripAdvisor into Chinese, and based on that foundation slowly built up reviews from Chinese members. The company sold 30% stake to Tencent at Rmb 50 million to 60 million in January 2011. Currently with over 45 million reviews, Daodao has evolved into a travel media company, which does not directly sell travel services or products.

However, Daodao currently faces the issue of neutrality of content due to its relationship with eLong.com (elong is the first recommended booking engine of Daodao) and advertisers. Its CEO has been actively clarifying and setting up internal scrutiny units.

Lvping – Ctrip’s protege?

Launched early 2011, Lvping (“Donkey Review”)’s Alexa ranking has risen from sub 1million to within 1000. There has been concerns over Ctrip’s monopoly playing a negative role on the trajectory of the site, yet it seems that Lvping is off to a strong start.

YiQiYou (17u.com): China’s first real-name travel blog

Considered a late comer to the online travel space, YiQiYou (“Travel Together”), formerly rebranded from similar meaning but more seriously sounding name TongCheng, is mired by the lack of Daodao’s early mover advantage and Lvping’s strong backing. However, its innovative marketing campaign, such as the blogging contest in late 2009, was well recevied. And its recent move to a real name based (versus Daodao’s alias based) review system has enforced accountability of comments.

Yeex: the latest addition to the pool

How can Yeex fit itself in the market and get a piece from the cake? Yeex’s parent company, etpass was founded in 2005 and initially focused on e-tickets online booking, online check-in, hotel booking, and business travel consulting. For Yeex, the company has secured funding of US$30 million from financial companies including JTB,  Nomura and Marubeni. With the strong financial backing, it is yet to be seen what will differentiate Yeex from its competitors.

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Alfa Romeo Cars 2011 pics

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Hence, the scientists of most motor organizations are trying to find out alternative means and fuels of driving cars and some of these alternative means include the use of hydrogen fuel and also using electricity to drive cars. The cars that run on alternative fuels and who emission does not harm the environment as much as the natural fuels does are better known as green cars.
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“People Do Not Buy For What You Do, But For Why You Do It” [Video]

Ever wondered why you buy a mp3 player from a PC company (Apple) and not from another (Dell)?

Ever observed why you buy what you buy?
Ever wondered why some of the “best” products fall flat?

Because people don’t buy what you do, they buy for why you do it.

As an entrepreneur, do you sell your product or your vision?

Watch this amazing TED video by Simon Sinek. Must watch for anybody who wants to have a meaningful life.

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In an effort to expose the underreported truth behind the government’s corporate average fuel economy ratings and to define more accurate fuel economy estimates, the team over at Cars.com has created their own True Mileage Index. The consumer website points out the flaw behind CAFE is that the adjusted calculations misrepresent the numbers posted on new car windows, and the actual fuel economy consumers will realize on the road Like the CAFE calculation, the True Mileage Index analyzes a number of factors. However, Cars.com places more weight on actual sales volume, and less on alternative fuels Their math places Honda’s True Mileage Index at a more realistic 24.9 mpg. In a nutshell, don’t get overly excited when you hear that the 2020 CAFE number is going to be 35 mpg -- it’s likely to only increase your future vehicle’s actual fuel economy by a few mpg.
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Feidou, Kaixin001′s New Product for Mobile Group Chat

Facebook acquired Beluga aiming at mobile group chat. We have not seen anything came out yet, but most likely it is going to integrate group-chat feature into the Facebook mobile app. It seem that Kaixin001, the Chinese social network has done it faster. Feidou, Kaixin001′s group chat product, is available on App Store. 

We questioned about Haibei not being integrated into Kaixin001. Again, Kaixin001 decided to launch this group chat feature as a separate product, instead of integration into its mobile app. On Feidou you can invite and chat with your Kaixin001′s and Weibo’s friends as well as your phone contacts (by sending sms invitations). Right now, Feidou allows max 50 users chatting at the same time. Like other group chat apps, users can also share images easily on Feidou. We talked about Kaixin001′s another new product, Haibei, the web-based group focus social networks. Feidou seems a good complement to Haibei on the mobile site, although we could not see any integration so far.

Feidou is also available for Android, Symbian V3. We also heard that the coming release will add voice chat feature, just like Talkbox. That would be quite interesting feature for Kaixin001′s millions of users.

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First SuperHappyDevHouse In Asia!

Originally started in Silicon Valley back in 2005, SuperHappyDevHouse is now here in Singapore!

SuperHappyDevHouse is the premier hackathon event from Silicon Valley that combines serious and not-so-serious productivity with a fun and exciting party atmosphere. SuperHappyDevHouse is a non-exclusive event intended for creative and curious people interested in technology.

The name conveys two ideas; first that this is a ‘Development House’ where technical developers will come together to build fun projects and presents them. Second is that it is a social event, fun to attend, and a great way to meet potential partners, new hires, or even just to make new friends.

This SHDH will be the first in Asia!

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Event Details

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When: Saturday May 14, 2011
Time: 2pm till Sunday 9am
Where: The Pigeonhole, 52 Duxton Road

Add yourself to the list of attendees on this wiki.

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[KL, M'sia] New Media Asia Conf 2011

“Impactive Engagement” – that’s the theme of the upcoming New Media Asia Conference 2011 to be held in two weeks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

“New Media is more than just stereotypically having a static presence on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and a website. It is all about interactions, and the impact it has on the people that the media touches. The conference aims to broaden the views and test new ideas and theories and attendees can put them to use immediately.

This is a 2-day conference on Social Media and the New Media. This includes the many facets of social networks, news portals, podcasts, etc.. We will be exploring the usefulness of social media, as well as the reach of new media.”

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Speakers

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You will get to hear from: Derek Sivers, Cameron Reilly, Timothy Tiah, Russell Conrad, Matt Armitage, Jon Wade, Daniel Riveong, Dan Milward, Neil Walter, Paul Moss, Premesh Chandran, Khailee Ng, Bernard Leong, Niki Cheong, David Wang, John Lim, David Lian and many more.

Check them out and view the programme schedule too.

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Conference Details

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When: Wednesday-Thursday 11-12th May 2011
Where: Royale Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia [view venue]

Register now for a chance to win an iPad 2.

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