java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.android.ddmlib.Client.sendAndConsume(Client.java:572)
at com.android.ddmlib.HandleHello.sendHELO(srcfile.java:142)
at com.android.ddmlib.HandleHello.sendHelloCommands(srcfile.java:65)
at com.android.ddmlib.Client.getJdwpPacket(Client.java:671)
at com.android.ddmlib.MonitorThread.processClientActivity(MonitorThread.java:317)
at com.android.ddmlib.MonitorThread.run(MonitorThread.java:263)

The app runs fine, but it is annoying to see the DDMS error message. Finally, today find a fix. It is a simple fix too…

In the AVD, enter some value to the SD Card size. Then the problem goes away…

Now I am happy…

First it provide live status update for friend feed, then it provides live chat. Farmville and Restaurant give people incentive to constantly refresh their farm and restaurant from within Facebook. The longer people stay on Facebook, the higher probability that an ad can be served.

Another example is gmail. I constantly leave the gmail page open on my web browser. It has so much of my attention that I do not bother to close it anymore. I can get email, I can chat, now I can call.

So what other type of service attracts people stay on the website?

What if Amazon could think of something that attracts their customer to stay their website? Will it get more customer to buy? What type of service can they provide?

It’s something good to think about it.

Twitter started off with a small project, now it becomes bigger and bigger. People now prefer to write 140 characters than to write a blog post.

The “quick” approach from twitter definitely suits nowadays culture, fast information.

Twitter is going to be big, but it is not going to be big in its current status. (Frequent downtime.)

Let’s come back in a year and see how twitter has affect our lives.

I admit, I was sort of disappointed when the out of stock iPhone are unreachable. I was on my look to look for an alternative.
However, this gives me a reason to get an iPhone.

WordPress for iPhone.

The iPhone 3G is not about the 3G, it is about the App store.

If you are using wordpress, there is no need to wait. Happy blogging with it.

By the way, the Press This function is back. Yay!

Today is Firefox 3 download day. Go get a copy and experience a better web browsing.

I agreed with some of his points. He pointed out that a city could give an impression to others, such as New York is a financial city and Silicon Valley is a technology hub.

In the end of the article, he said,

No matter how determined you are, it’s hard not to be influenced by the people around you. It’s not so much that you do whatever a city expects of you, but that you get discouraged when no one around you cares about the same things you do.

I found it is very true. The people around you can influence your life style or interest, though you might not feel the impact.

Take myself as an example. I am a programmer but I am not living in the Silicon Valley. As much as I like programming, I found that the people around me are mostly not programmer.

The conversation with the people around me mostly likely not about programming. It is a bit disappointed at first, but I actually liked it. It is because it will help me to feel what the world is talking about instead of just live inside the programming world.

I guess it all comes down to what you want. If I move to the Silicon Valley, I might meet more people with technological background and having more technological conversation, however, I might also miss some late night meaningless conversation or got me interested in playing Frisbee.

I used to like to read slashdot.org for technology news. Later I found digg.com/technology has cover new tech news faster, I switched to digg.com for tech news.

However, I am pretty dissatisfy with what I got from digg.com. I did not get the same experience with digg.com for the tech news. I found less and less interesting with the tech news posted on digg.com/technology. I thought the more people use digg.com means the more relevant technology news I would get. I guess it was not the case, or I have different flavor than the technology crowd that use digg.com

Anyway, I found that http://news.ycombinator.com/ is a rising choice for me.

It often returns different experience.

While Google is taking the simplicity as their approach, sites from the Chinese just try to add as much as possible in their front page. There are often 20-plus links to click, flashing animation, and floating flash ads. They try to catch as much attention as possible. It kind of irritates me, but apparently, the Chinese like it very much.

I also found a big difference in Chinese website is its abuse use of opening links into new window. If I am not using tab opening, after reading five Chinese news, I will have to close five windows in the end. I found it was really annoying to typical user if they do not use any plug-in to control windows pop up.

The west has approach to the simplicity while the Chinese approach the opposite. I often wonder which direction is more user friendly in the global audience.

Until the trend becomes more clear, I still prefer to simplicity.