What's in a Name?

Here are several songs that gave me the inspiration of this blog name "Spread Your Wings". I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

I Believe I can Fly
by R. Kelly.


Breakaway
by Kelly Clarkson



The Wind beneath My Wings
by Bette Midler

Google Does Good

Being a juggernaut in the tech industry, Google's "Do no evil" credo is often questioned and sometimes ridiculed by competitors and bloggers. Google doesn't have squeaky clean image, but nobody can deny its innovation and influence. I am glad to see Google is using both to do good with this mashup service: Google China Releases Holiday Mass Migration Map

Like some Chinese words that took root from Western language, sardine is a word many Chinese understand and readily accept into their vocabulary. They know how it feels to be one of the sardines on a subway or a bus in a heavily populated city like Shanghai. They know it only gets worse close to the holidays, espeically Chinese New Year. All the migrant workers who toiled in the big cities for an entire year take their only trip of the year back home. With this year's blizzard that has wrecked havoc in most part of southern China, the trip home this year becomes longer than ever.

Google China built the Holiday Mass Migration Map within a day after the idea first emerged. It aggregates weather, railway and road condition, ticket information on Google Map. China Web 2.0 Review gave a good review of the site, acknowledging its innovation, in the meantime pointing out the mashup's apparent web 1.0 style.

I applaud Google China's effort to see and understand the needs of the people. After all, who needs technology if it cannot do us good?