In between finishing up all the awesome features in alpha testing now, I’m preparing for a trip to Shanghai at the end of this month. I’ll be there between the 20th and 3rd and I …
Smartphone Operating System Wars: Who will win?
Many moons ago, when PCs (personal computers) were new (displacing “big iron” mainframes the size of rooms), there were dozens of operating systems competing for dominance. Microsoft’s MS-DOS (and IBM’s PC-DOS) weren’t guaranteed to win, …
Three Chinese Teachers, Three Styles: My Chinese Learning Experiences in Junior Middle School
This post has a Chinese version below. Feel free to test your Chinese by reading the Chinese version first! Through four years of junior middle school, I came across three Chinese language teachers. In my …
New Member of Skritter, Michelle
Hi, I am Michelle. I am a new member of the Skritter community, and I am currently interning as a marketing assistant. My full name is Michelle Ying Huey, Lai (赖盈慧), but you can just …
Cacairl, A New Member of Skritter
This post has a Chinese version below. Feel free to test your Chinese by reading the Chinese version first! Hello—nice to meet you! I’m a new member of the Skritter community, and I am currently …
Marketing Skritter
My job should not exist, at least if you take an economics-inspired, idealized view of the world. In classical economics, lower prices should automatically bring more customers, reducing the field of selling to merely order-taking …
Heisig Keywords Are In
I’ve just finished adding, for Chinese and Japanese, support for Heisig keywords built into the practice page. This uses the upcoming custom definitions to replace the standard definitions with the Heisig ones for the applicable …
Happy Birthday Skritter
Yesterday, one year ago a little website launched. The three cofounders had been working on the site for almost a year prior to the launch. The site’s name was Skritter and it was the brainchild …
Chinese people’s English names 中国人的英文名字 (Zhōngguórén de Yīngwén míngzi)
Earlier this week I saw this video (below) from Sexy Beijing about the English names that Chinese people choose. During my time in China I encountered my fair share of Chinese people with English names …
Some Interesting Results from the User Survey
Several weeks ago we asked people to take a Skritter user survey. In it, we asked all sorts of questions about how you use Skritter, what you want out of similar educational services, what news …
