I'm leaving Facebook, first, you may still follow my bookmarks sharing or reach me at:

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/chpapa
Blog: http://www.bencheng.net
Photo: http://core.stepcase.com/chpapa

Why?

A. Facebook have a bad privacy track record, either it is Facebook Beacon, or the Facebook silently changes it's privacy (The Facebook Great Betrayal)

B. Yesterday, when I logged into Facebook, it keeps asking me to link all my profiles to Pages and website, the interface is designed in a way that it is very difficult to opt-out, and if I choose not to link any pages, it threaten to EMPTY MY PROFILE.

And what if you say yes to the links? It quietly warn you that they are public!

So I decided to empty it myself. 

 

Facebook is not respecting their users, they keep trying to force people to go public with their private profile and personal data. 

 

No! I'm not going to give Facebook another chance, I've enough. 

I strongly encourage you to do so, quit Facebook today. Maybe the world will changes so that no one care about privacy and respect their users anymore, might be some day the law-makers will know they should stand and do something. Before that happens, let's try to change the world by market force -- we vote by our foots (or clicks).

I think i first encounter the term "product design" when i study the course in my university life. I fall in love with trying to create something useful since than -- and the best way to combine my skill with the idea of product design is software since i have been a coding guru since i born...

With an A grade from the course, I thought I am pretty good at it already -- think about a business model, with a specific and targeted customer group... While jumping into the web 2.0 startup scenes, with a real problem to solve, we at Oursky.com started to develop Pandaform.com.

And the story begin -- I didn't aware I missed the most important part of the game -- u have to explain your product to others.

From a full feature workflow builder, we found that our original assumption that workflow application is complicated is wrong, the problem is most small business just dun have the concept of "business process"...

Okay, and than we try to simplify it by saying it is a Form Builder instead of workflow engine, we thought it is simple enough but than people ask: Form builder of what?

Okay so a lot of forms created by our pilot tester are just application form, so we further simplify it as a Application Form Software, and we are still working on it...

Today one of us say... What our clients need might be just something like, they can import a Google Spreadsheet, make it into a form, and send the forms to a list of people in the spreadsheet like the "mail merge" feature in Word and Excel, and the submitted data will be sync back into the spreadsheet...

This... Makes perfect sense, and sounds like a simple product.

OMG, product design...

I was so "high" by listening to all those new / old songs of LMF tonight, it reminds me of my childhood and teenage...

The song in the youtube video above is the first song I heard from them, I keep listening to it days and nights when i was a teenager, I mean... With all those love songs flooding the market, they are the only alternative if I want sth different. And you know what, I am just as lazy as they described in the song, I keep telling people my philosophy of life is as the song said -- get a lazy life which I can do nothing (sleep till 3pm), dun have to care how others think about me (messy hair and never wear a proper suit).

Frankly I keep these habits till today -- I still work / think at night instead of day time, I never dress properly in my office...

So after all these years (damn I am 25 now, almost no excuse to act as lazy as I wish), after LMF have been almost forgotten, they... CAME BACK!

Their new song 揸�中指 (hold your middle finger, translate by my poor English), keep fffuuuucccckkkking the conservatives and asking why HK became a city people start forgot justices, liberty and freedom. I have became more social / politically aware as i grow and it seems so do LMF, again LMF hit my heart with their song... It just feels like I belong to a "LMF generation".

So if anyone tell me LMF is bad becoz of their use of foul language in the music, I will just say try to read listen and read their lyric, or fuck off.

And they even put up their song on their website for download! Would be more appreciate if they put the song in Creative Commons license. :-)

I wish I could have write this blog with Chinese but I can't do it on iPad... Sigh.....

Haven't been blogged for a while since life have been busy (okay it's an excuse), spending more time on Twitter and playing new gadget. Learnt about Posterous since I've started some blogging for the Startups HK blog, and found this new blogging things seems just works and let me focus on writing (I'm posting this blog by email), so I decided why don't I start blogging again.

So just a quick update on what I've been working on...

1. Have been as busy as usual with Oursky, we have new office as well as new developers and evangelist joining us.

2. Working on a new web startup called Pandaform, starting as a easy-to-use workflow application and turns into a Application Form Builder later on as we realized that it's not just workflow application are difficult to use, but the concept of workflow is difficult for layman. It will be launching soon and let me know if you want to try the closed beta.

3. A 50/50 leisure + work trip to US, enjoyable and also learnt how bad the LA public transport is...

4. A not so personal thing is I think I've become more and more rely on Web Applications, I just found that the idea of having access to all my personal tools with any devices connecting to the Internet became so important and convince for me. I was on Gmail and Remember the milk since last two years, and in the last 6 months I switched to (thanks to my iPhone) online services for almost everything: Evernote instead of my Moleskine; DropBox instead of FTP and S3; I'm using KKBOX for online music streaming, Kindle Software for reading Coders at work, Founders at work and The Little Book of String Theory...

So here it is... l will try to keep this blog up-to-date with what's going on with my life. Let's see how well it goes...