Another good one from Nike.
The viral video has a lot of “tunnels”. Some link to bios of the players shown in slow motions, some link to external sites about the bigger movement to gather footballer to join the TEAM.
It has attracted more than 6 millions views since launched yesterday (May 18). Amazing traffic and eye-balls. Well, I have contributed 3 views since I am eager to search for all those tunnels.
I am engaged. I am impressed.

Original article posted on here.
If you still care about blogging (and I have just shown I do), what would be the number one concern that you should have? The answer is easy: make sure that your blog is mobile optimized.
This should not be any news to anybody anyway. This is one of the main reasons why Microblogging (Twitter and Weibo) and Miniblogging (light-weighted Tumblr) flourished recently in the first place. Traditional blogs are too heavy to be social, mobile and instant enough.
Anyway, my blog traffic has around 35% viewed by mobile devices for the last 30 days, and the trend is increasing rapidly recently. Out of all my Facebook referrals, more than half of them are from m.facebook, indicating that mobile+social is a big thing and if our landing page (the article page on the blog, for this instance) is not mobile optimized, we are doomed.
On the other hand, I got only a few percent of visitors coming from mobile search. And that’s normal, given that my blog is not that location-search relevant unlike retails or tourist attractions.
So, what I have done to make mine mobile? For my Blogger.com site, I have simply use the mobile template that provided by Google. I have tried the Dynamic Views on my iPhone, and found that although it is mobile compatible as the Mosaic screen would adjust the number of columns based on the width of the screen, the loading time is way too long for a normal 3G connection to download and render. For my WordPress site, I have employed a plugin to enable a mobile theme when loaded in a mobile device.
It is not enough just for the platform to be mobile optimized. The content matters too. When it comes down to content, “mobile optimized” means “concise”, “location relevant” and “time critical”. I believe this is where “blogging” is falling apart. Blogging is not 100% mobile if we look at the nature of the meaningful contents. We could optimized for the audience who come to us via mobile, but we can’t entertain the needs of the vast majority on the mobile traffic. If we want a happy ending, we could either limit ourselves to the concise and immediate world, or leave the detail world untapped and use social media as the mobile outpost to guide us towards the real content. With that in mind, all we need is a good landing page that optimized for mobile devices and mobile referral (for example, the article shown directly via Twitter, Flipboard, Facebook and LinkedIn mobile apps).
I am good. I am mobile optimized. At least my mind does. The rest will follow.
其實真的不知應從何說起。很多人問我為何不再寫?我說我只是沒時間、沒機會、沒中文輸入法,而不是不想寫或沒話題可寫。說實在,有趣題目多得很,起了稿的也載滿 Evernote。可是真的可以出世的卻沒有幾個。其實時間不可能是個問題。澳洲的時間總「化算」過香港的吧?
直到今天,我終於找到答案。很詭秘。
答案是一個字:「FOMO」。我知這不算一個字。就當是一個潮詞罷。FOMO 全解是:Fear Of Missing Out。That’s It!! 一擊即中!大家總會因為早上忘了帶手機出門而焦慮和懊惱一整天吧?基本上 Facebook (尤其是手機版) 的存在就是去滿足/解決這 FOMO 問題:我們無時無刻都可即時知道朋友、ex-朋友們轉了甚麼髮型、生了B轉了工搬了屋。他們沒有邀請我去那婚宴/派對?不打緊!在 Facebook 上 liked 了他們的照片便不會覺被 missed out。我可以遙距與人搭訕談及明哥出櫃,也因為大家瘋傳那段短片。
我就是因這心態而寫少了。要在熱流的中央打滾,慢慢長寫不是辦法,短 share 快 like 才是上策。後來我發展到連字也不寫了,只是用 Instagram 拍照再經 API 傳到 Facebook Twitter Foursquare 便算與這世界溝通了。反正大家也繼續有「喜歡-ed」我。近日我更進步到只在 Pinterest pined 別人的相當是己出,方便快捷!
問題來了:這些記錄所記下的只有我的足跡和點滴(其實甚至大部分也不是我的!)而沒有我的想法和感受。但往往源於內心世界的私想比外在的事實更值得回味。沒有寫 Blog 便沒有一個私地盤去將這些想法和感受集中起來。故此,過了這段時間,我還是想重新將我的 Blog 作為我的大本營,而將 Facebook Twitter 定位為我的 Outpost。
我仍然不想 miss out,但如今緊張的卻是不要忘掉我的記憶。
聖誕老人今年送了孩子夢寐以求的 Lego 7498 和 5681(大與小差館)。整天 Christmas Day 與半天 Boxing Day 我們也是待在家玩兵捉賊。他倆很快便從玩這遊戲當兒各自流露出他們自己的性格:Jacob 故事內的角色永遠是黑白分明,而且站得整整齊齊。而於 Chester 的版本中,那兩位差人卻往往會成為階下囚,被賊仔反鎖在監倉中!哈哈!
這勾起了我很多兒時之回憶。我有幸於小時候便已接觸 Lego。但那時的模式很不同。我們有一大桶 Lego bricks,要砌的東西也偏向隨意和簡約,不會有太多整件啤出來的硬件。例如牆身、車頭蓋、路牌、單車甚至小狗也是逐件砌出來而不是像現在那樣一大塊原件提供給我們。那時像真度沒有那麼高(像是 low-res 的圖畫),但幻想和創意的空間就闊得多了!
當年其中一個我最喜愛的產品是這本編號 6000 的 Idea Book,出版於 1980。裡面透過 Mary 和 Bill 的生活故事去一步步教大家如何去創建出一個 Lego 的家、市集、太空站以及古代城堡。很強的故事性,可以當漫畫般一版一版的看,但又有清楚的砌法說明,可以如這些玩家般將故事內出現過的物件逐件砌出來。我多年來放在檯頭有個擺設就是跟這本書教出來的一隻戰馬(如上圖)。
但現在,那桶 Lego 早已不知去向,那本書也不知流落到哪。唯一仍在我身邊的就只有這隻戰馬和坐在上面的老將軍。那天到 Amazon 嘗試找這回本 Idea Book,原來三十多年後已炒到 US$499,變了一件奇貨!可幸也找到一本由有心人 scan 來的 PDF 版本(上面的標價卻是 $1.99 呢,漲價了 250 倍!)。如大家有興趣,請往這裡試閱(共 13.4MB)。不用謝!
由第十三天到第一百四十天,我足足失蹤了四個半月。究竟我在這期間發生了甚麼事呢?
簡單的說,我用了這四個半月時間在這裡減了二十八磅。方法?很容易:因為我同時也成為了家中的大廚(這也差點成為了我的正職,如果我結果現在仍未找到工作的話)。可能是我煮的東西太健康或太難吃,又或是我太專注下廚,所以自己無瑕去吃。
實情也可能是這樣:之前當我未找到工作前,我的心情一直滯留在那患得患失的狀況。據了解,「患得患失」有助減肥。尤其是要連續「患得患失」四個多月。
終於,經過數輪轉化與昇華,我終於遇到了我的 dream job。或者說,是這份工找到我。是現在的我。說到尾,這一切也是緣份。我需要這樣說,因為我的確為這段緣份感恩,但亦因為我知道我那原籍美國的上司也在學中文。
畢竟,說到尾,我能於申請過五百份工、見過十來個 agents,連 final interviews 也經歷過不下五次的情況下開始我的新事業,都是多得我以前幾位舊上司的提攜,以至我可以有一份似樣的 CV。當然也不少得各位家人與朋友的支持和鼓勵,讓我可以很專心地去搵工。再加上你們落力去讚賞我的廚藝,也另我自信倍增!謝謝!!