Laplink

Posted on April 16th, by Cathy Wang in Online Marketing Work. Comments Off

Online Marketing / SEO / Email Campaign / Pay-Per-Click Marketing

Laplink, an international company with 25 years of experience in PC utility software.


Podcast Hotel

Posted on April 16th, by Cathy Wang in Online Marketing Work, Social Media Work. Comments Off

Social Media / Online Marketing / Web 2.0 Startup / Event Coordination

Podcast Hotel, a conference specializes in web 2.0 topics and podcast technology. Bridging the gap between web 2.0 and music marketing.


Japanese web services

Posted on October 22nd, by Cathy Wang in web. 6 comments

saw it via twitter from Jeremiah:

@jonathanbrowne was telling me about this Japanese Web 2.0 list: http://tinyurl.com/6dv4vl compares and contrasts US vs Japan

I wrote a comment on the post but decided to elaborate more on the topic. So here it goes.

Since I have lived in Japan for a year in Hokkaido I feel like I might have learned some stuff about Japanese web services and the way people use them from a different perspective. What does this mean? I had mainly been in touch with people NOT in the tech industry, not early adopters.

Booking travel plans online:

If a Japanese person HAVE to book travels online they’d go to: Jalan.net. (entirely in Japanese, also no mobile version)
Jalan also has publications on traveling which ties back to the website. The magazines are popular as they publish specific area or holidays specials.

I tried … Read More »


What’s up with this blog

Posted on September 3rd, by Cathy Wang in web. 1 Comment

Back in 2004 I had a blog in wordpress that I kept for a class in university hosted on the school’s server. After graduating I decided to keep blogging and transferred that wordpress blog to my own wordpress. After being around the web industry for a while I decided to transfer my wordpress blog to drupal. The old blog was hosted on everybrandnewday.com (which is now offline). I have gone through many migrations of data and upgrades; however……

Last month I tried to upgrade to drupal 6. I did back up everything like everyone always tells you to. However, when everything failed to work and I was about to revert back to the old database….. That’s when I realized that the database zip file was actually corrupted. It failed to extract. After many struggle and painful times, I decided to … Read More »


Bell Olympic Service Rate Card System

Posted on April 5th, by Cathy Wang in Information Architecture, User Experience. Comments Off

Bell – the sole telecommunication sponsor for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. In an effort to handle all telecommunication orders for the Olympic Games, Bell needed an Enterprise Rate Card system with an automated provisioning to process all the orders.