A local car service is the mayor of LaGuardia Airport in New York. How long will it be until Foursquare begins selling space here to advertisers? This is the first page you see after checking into a business — and I have to imagine it helps deliver new customers to this car service. Imagine landing on the runway, opening your phone and checking into 4sq, and clicking a link to schedule a luxury car service drive you home for the same price as a taxi. Not bad.

Yang’s Fry Dumplings was definitely one of the food highlights of Shanghai. They charged 5 Yuan for 4 dumplings. That’s about $0.75. I wish we had dumpling shops as good as this in NY and SF…

After spending the last week in China, I have a much greater appreciation for two things: clean air and an uncensored internet experience.

As soon as I stepped out of the Shanghai Pudong Airport my chest felt tight and my breaths were noticeably shorter. I thought that I’d experienced air pollution in Mexico City and Los Angeles, but the air in Shanghai was definitely dirtier.

It was interesting to visit China last week, especially as the discussion of whether Google will continue its operations in the country was nearing a final decision. It was a hotly covered topic in the China Daily just about every single day.

While I had a great trip and it was exciting to see how China is quickly developing, it was refreshing to land in New York yesterday and finally be able to access Facebook and Twitter. As an American traveling abroad, there are things I take for granted, such as bit.ly urls working properly and Google functioning as expected. But in China, this wasn’t the case.

Below is a short recap of the things that didn’t work for me during the course of my daily internet use in Shanghai last week.

While I didn’t spend much time investigating the errors above, I did notice that the error codes I received from each of the services varied — leading me to believe the government uses different approaches for blocking each service. For example, Google Image Search redirects gave me a 101 error, Facebook.com served a 118 Error, and Google Spreadsheets gave me a 107 error.

Update 3/7: Neither Twitter or FB can be accessed from my hotel. Not sure if it’s just a local issue or nationwide.

Last week Fortune posted 10 tips for career success from Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, a former Googler, and now CEO at Polyvore. I worked in Sukhinder’s group for about 6 months before she took on Asia-Pac/LatAm responsibilities, and while I agree with most of the advice in her post, I would change #9 from “Go in with a vision of your 100-day plan and see if it resonates” to “Go in with a 7-day, 30-day, and 100-day gameplan to see if it resonates”.

When I visited Zynga in January, Bing Gordon introduced me to this idea of having a  7-day plan when you start a new job. He’s found that the best indicator of success for someone within a company is what they accomplish in their first week. While initially I thought it was a stretch for a new employee to have a major contribution in 7 days, the more you think about it, crushing your first week (and first month) is hugely important if you want to succeed and advance quickly within any organization.