Wilson Ng started helping the family business since 9 years old. Since then, he had dreamt to be a successful entrepreneur, one who starts great businesses  ( he has started 7) from scratch with insight, guts and initiative. He keeps his focus on growing the business by creating value-- not on politics, or wasteful distractions. He brings the same focus to community service, teaching, life and family.

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	Wednesday, September 28, 2005

5 Reasons Why Palm Slide (techdrivenlife)   (selected articles in bizdrivenlife compiled) In addition to my own analysis of Palm's colorful history and its slide, here is another take from CNET.   4:18:39 PM     comment []   trackback []

Blogging leads to Better Sales  I guess when I wrote lengthily about what we tend to accomplish by launching 9 websites the last two months to increase collaboration and cooperation, I am not alone.  Here is another story on how blogging have increasse traffic. Blogging is also search engine friendly, and Paul Allen reminds us that you get 6 times more traffic clickthroughs in search engine results than in paid ads.   3:59:57 PM     comment []   trackback []

This I Believe (On Life )   (selected articles in bizdrivenlife compiled) After almost 20 years since I started reading and following the company that is Microsoft,  I still am amazed at Bill Gates. He was a hero for many of us back in the 80s, but the 90s, it somehow become uncool to be impressed by him as the company became accused of certain practices that led to making too much money. But the more I read of him, the more I am convinced that he is still driven by the same passion, the same intelligence and vision as it was 20 years ago.  Many billions, as well as successes and failures later, he is still driven -- which is important. In an interview with NPR ( National Public Radio) which is appropriately titled "This I Believe", he reiterates his vision -- to have a job you love that will mean using your creativity and intelligence to make the world a better place and to pursue that vision relentlessly. After so much innovation of the company ( which I feel they are less credited than what they are contributing), and contributing over 30 billion dollars to fight disease in new ways, I continue to be awed and inspired by the man. I do look forward to be able to continue to have the same passion to tap dance to work,  and yes, this will probably be an unpopular piece, but we are all human, and I think before we throw judment, let us try to understand the issues better.  For the last few years, he has not been on the driver seat ( not in operations), but in innovation and software design, and I think as we see the whole piece of Microsoft's design coming in together, we have to give him credit - he is smart, he is driven, and he is doing much more than many of us in making this a better world for our children.   3:29:55 PM     comment []   trackback []

Palm goes to Microsoft  (on business)    (selected articles in bizdrivenlife compiled) ( and Lessons on Competing with Microsoft)   Last week, one of the bigger news in the tech industry was that two archrivals, Palm and Microsoft has teamed up, and Palm would soon be licensing Windows Mobile for its future Treo Cell phones.  Thus the end of the intense rivalry between these two companies which has been running for nearly 8 years.  I have used more than  7 PDAs going back a few years, and feel qualified to tell you my version of this colorful story which I have closely followed…   Ever since I far back as I could remember, I have been using organizers to try to work out my schedules, my contacts, and my to do list, as well as meeting notes. I was a user of Casio and Sharp organizers back when it could store no more than 200 phone numbers.   But it just did not work out, and every year, I would try to get one of those executive planners to start out my year, and it would be a hell of a time trying to transfer some of my contacts, and appointments.   Then almost 9 years ago, around April 1996,  there was this organizer called the Palm Pilot.  Instantly it took the world by storm. It was handy, it was easy to use, and it had enough memory to actually be useful.  And it had a handwriting recognition system that was which was fondly called Graffiti.   Palm practically popularized the devices we now fondly called the PDA.  Within 18 months, it sold over a million devices.  And for a while,   More... 3:09:07 PM     comment []   trackback []

Lives Lived  "on life " I just happened to come across an announcement of a departure of an accomplished person at the age of 49. I don't normally read this part of the news, but the way it was written had a sense of appeal in the way his life was examined.  To quote:" The death of a good man always come too soon.... It was so unfair, many who knew him said...  But his life was not a waste. He was an over-achiever of the very best kind, the kind that strives and achieves without fanfare, show or self-aggrandizing. He had, at the time in his life, received many of the rewards one hopes will come for a life well-lived... A man of great tact, he could deal with difficult human encounters with quiet good humour and equanimity." That, I hope, other than the first sentence, would also apply to me, when it is my time to go.   4:34:18 AM     comment []   trackback []

Blogging  "on technology" Blogging can be addictive, and just like in sports or business, once you get the hang of it, you want to beat yesterday's records.  How do I get more pageviews?  How do I interact more? And the more you blog, the more possibilities you see, and the more things you thought about which is outside the confines of the parameters you have set about when you started blogging. I have learned a lot not only from the interaction, but from the numerous technologies available on how to share information, and how to pubish and manage content. I definitely would have earned a hundred times more if I put my efforts on other things but I have an advantage some other bloggers don't.  Our company is relatively a major player in the computer technology arena in our place, and even if it is not earning, I can easily justify the various web sites in terms of branding, and user mind share.  It certainly can be a better payoff than direct advertising.  And definitely understanding how web sites work, interact, and in the future, generate commerce is also something we believe our company should collectively learn. It was a learning process that I wanted to undertake, specifically being in the IT industry. My goal was to understand the processes to organize, publish, retrieve and discover semi-structured and unstructured information inside or outside the organization, and present it in an organized, relevant, and context-appropriate manner. It is also understanding the technology and interfaces that support collaboration and the identification, formation and ongoing support of communities. More ... 4:05:05 AM     comment []   trackback []

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