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East Asian style

Users from East Asia popularized a style of emoticons, which can be understood without turning one's head to the left.

These emoticons are usually found in a format similar to (*_*), where the asterisks indicate the eyes, the central character, usually an underscore, the mouth, and the parentheses, the outline of the face. A large number of different characters can be used to replace the eyes, which usually is where the emoticon derives its emotive aspect (contrasting the Western emoticons' emoting through the mouth). The emphasis on the eyes is reflected in the common usage of emoticons that use only the eyes, e.g. ^^. Characters like hyphens or periods can replace the underscore; the period is often used for a smaller, "cuter" mouth or to represent a nose, e.g. (^.^). Alternatively, the mouth/nose can be left out entirely, e.g. (^^). The parentheses also can often be replaced with braces, e.g. {^_^}. Many times, the parentheses are left out completely, e.g. ^^. A quotation mark ", apostrophe ', or semicolon ; can be added to the emoticon to imply apprehension or embarrassment, in the same way as the anime sweat drop. Many other characters can be appended to also indicate arms or hands, e.g. <(^_^)> or ⊂( ﾟ ヮﾟ)⊃.

Microsoft IME 2003 (Japanese) or later supports the use of both forms of emoticons by enabling Microsoft IME Spoken Language Dictionary.

Digg(digg.com/)的创始人Kevin Rose 今天正力劝WEB2.0狂热者要避免网站同质化的诱惑。

　　Rose的新闻分类服务已经吸引到50万的注册用户。今天，在旧金山举行的未来网络服务峰会(The Future of Web Apps Summit )上，Rose告诉与会代表在给自己网站内容添加添加标签之前需要三思，这样的标签正日益增长且趋于同质化。他还重申了他对为分类故事读者付费的反对立场。

　　他也给大家描述了DIGG即将迎来的变化。Digg即将改进它的搜索，可用性以及以外部网站的整合。在未来的2个月内，Digg会开放它的API，这样用户就可以直接从他们自己的网站上直接Digg故事了。

　　Rose说Digg现在不会使用标签。

　　他说："我看到很多网站仅仅是为了添加某个特征而添加某个特征，而不去想想为什么要去添加。" 他引用了一个他在大会上遇到的一个银行雇员的例子：这个雇员也正往他们银行网站上添加标签。

　　"人们会说Digg需要添加标签--如果说别的网站添加就没意义了。但是Digg的意义就是你能把人们聚集到一个特定话题上。一旦你添加了标签，你就把内容从队列分离了，这样被人就更难Digg它了。"

　　Rose还说保持访问内容的公平和水平很重要，所以，自然Digg就不能为读者提供报酬。"用户给网站提交内容这一行为应该没有外在动机，这一点很重要。"他说："我们不想让这些没有得到报酬的用户气馁。"

　　Digg开始面临其他网站的竞争，比如美国在线的NetScape。