http://ellenlee.com Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:07:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Slowly but surely I'm getting my site up and running. I have a new appreciation for web design and how best to present information on the Internet. It's not as easy as I thought! http://ellenlee.com/index.php/2009/05/firstpost/ SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE| Monday, March 2, 2009 With an emphasis on diapers, purees and pacifiers, TotSpot, Kidmondo, Lil'Grams and others offer parents one place to keep an online diary about their child, upload photographs and videos and post up-to-the-moment status updates. On TotSpot, just as on other social networking sites, parents ... http://ellenlee.com/index.php/2009/03/baby-books-go-digital/ SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE | Sunday, August 17, 2008 Like a growing number of entrepreneurs, George Chen, a 50-year-old Bay Area native, is chasing his American dream in China. Read more. http://ellenlee.com/index.php/2008/08/e-ha-taps-into-chinas-mobile-culture/ SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE| Tuesday, August 5, 2008 Just days after David Wang produced a mock newscast criticizing Taiwanese officials and uploaded the clip to Tudou, a popular video sharing site in China, it disappeared. What's surprising is not that it was censored - but that it remained online as long as ... http://ellenlee.com/index.php/2008/08/web-chips-away-at-chinas-grip-on-information/ SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE| Monday, August 4, 2008 For China's well-connected youth, the Internet and cell phone have become critical communication tools. Largely under 25, this cohort of 107 million accounts for nearly half of China's rapidly growing Internet population. They get their news from blogs and online bulletin boards. They depend ... http://ellenlee.com/index.php/2008/08/chinas-young-people-connect-online/ SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE| Sunday, August 3, 2008 From social networking to video sharing, the Chinese are fashioning their own versions of Facebook, Twitter and other popular Web sites and tweaking them to suit the tastes of the country's exploding population of Internet users, which already surpasses that of the United States. Read ... http://ellenlee.com/index.php/2008/08/hello-world/ SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE | Monday, November, 5, 2007 Jinhua, China -- For years, Qiutian Chen labored on assembly lines. He polished marble. He built car parts. And he saved his money. Six years ago, this unassuming son of farmers took those savings and spent an initial $13,000 to start a factory in ... http://ellenlee.com/index.php/2007/11/alibabacom-and-the-rise-of-entrepreneurial-china/ Contra Costa Times| Tuesday, March 1, 2005 Third in the series "What is a reasonable time to wait?" The 5,000 employees laid off after the takeover move on and find new jobs. This three-part series goes behind the scenes during the last days of one of the East Bay's largest, most successful high-tech ... http://ellenlee.com/index.php/2005/03/peoplesofts-final-days-part-3/ Contra Costa Times| Monday, February 28, 2005 Second in the series "This is a sad day." PeopleSoft executives break the news to employees and prepare the company for the handover. This three-part series goes behind the scenes during the last days of one of the East Bay's largest, most successful high-tech companies, one ... http://ellenlee.com/index.php/2005/02/peoplesofts-final-days-part-2/ Contra Costa Times| Sunday, February 27, 2005 First in the series "This is going to happen." Over the weekend, it becomes clear that PeopleSoft Inc. will be sold to Oracle Corp. This three-part series goes behind the scenes during the last days of one of the East Bay's largest, most successful high-tech companies, ... http://ellenlee.com/index.php/2005/02/peoplesofts-final-days-part-1/