Key to website success

Last year, in December 13, I attended meetup for several people in Redmond. The question is about Windows Media. There are several famous figures, including Robert Scoble. It's over. There are four other people, I, Robert, and two founders from Heypix.com, Eric and James. Later I learned that the reason they stayed was to show Robert the Heypix.com website they just prepared. Demo is cool, just a few minutes. They want to listen to Robert's ideas and help them write some review. At that time, there were three days before the official launch of Heypix.com. In the evening, they took me back to the Seattle Hotel and handed me a huge car they borrowed in the morning to the Seattle airport.

Their company flew to Seattle that morning in Boston for a gathering in the afternoon and a demonstration in the evening. They returned to the Seattle airport and flew back to Boston that night. It is estimated that it is four o'clock in the morning when I return to Boston.
This is one of my impressive stories in Seattle (the other is Live Girl Theatre, which inspired me to run my own photography exhibition ).
Four months later, when I left Microsoft, I sent a letter to Eric telling him about my changes. They replied, "We have changed ". Heypix was just acquired by CNET. It only took four months.
This story impressed me.
What is a website?
Websites are technical first. However, websites do not rely solely on technology. There are not many competitive advantages that rely on technology as the core. Google is regarded as one, but more, the vast majority, rely on ideas. However, as a website, there are too many things apart from technologies and ideas, and these are often the core competitiveness of a website.
Cheap idea
On that day, he chatted with Tom at the top layer of Jin Mao. He has just completed his investment in Del. icio. us and is obviously still paying close attention to new ideas. I mentioned a small tool I developed on the company's intranet in 2000. It is a knowledge sharing server inside the Desktop Application Team, and a key value is added to the Client Registry, users can see any interesting things on the internet. Right-click it and add it to the public bookmarks of our group. You can also specify a category, which is freely written, we now call it a tag. To put it bluntly, a complete del. icio. us... Actually, I mean, in 2000 or even before, there were del. icio. the idea of us is more than a few hundred people in the world, but why is it only del. icio. us success? The idea itself is cheap and cheap. A new myth can be created only by adding strong confidence and funds.
Cheap technology
I am ashamed of myself. I still boast that I am a technical engineer. Although I have never written a program or configured SQL Server for a long time. I once insisted that technology can solve many problems. Now, I am not so persistent. In the six years at Microsoft, I changed to six different positions. From the beginning of technology, as more and more things were done, I naturally gradually moved away from technology. Slowly discovering that many technologies are not so decisive. Between an IT project and a traditional manual process, I don't take IT for granted to choose a high-tech method, because from a commercial perspective, we need to solve the problem and meet the needs, instead of technology. Business requirements are always higher than the programmer's curiosity and the programmer's sense of accomplishment. Therefore, it is no longer surprising why there are so many practices that were originally considered silly and repeated on one occasion after another. Originally, they were the smartest practices. I will never laugh at the fact that CTRIP uses fax or even verbal confirmation to process orders. For the status quo, this is really a good way.