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My Social Verbs

It seems that these days people are actively packing up their facebook account over to google+. Different reasons aside, google+ is making a huge splash in the social scene.

One... Read More »


about Service Design

These days I am busy working on my own practice at Klik Logik. At the same time, I am also keeping my eye out for the next opportunity.

An interesting... Read More »


Facebook Search and Trusted Information

Facebook has just announced its new search ability. What does this mean to the end-users Read More »

Integrate Twitter Buttons in WordPress (with shortened URL)

How to create a “tweet this” button for your blog post in WordPress? You have many options.

Twitter has become a social network sharing system and you should always provide... Read More »


Japanese web services

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... Read More »


What’s up with this blog

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... Read More »


Search in google reader.

Google reader now comes with search, and it also has a different loading graphic.

However, gmail is still using old school red ugly loading graphic:

Google’s blog post about the new... Read More »


Craigslist thinking about paid posting?

so it seems like, craigslist is thinking a lot about money….

What’s with the Price after posting something for sale?….

it’s likely that Craigslist is thinking about paid posting?

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Salt

hide uploaded by cathycracks.

I went to Salt tasting room last night. It’s a wonderful amazing place. If you like wine and you like cheese, this place is for you.

I also... Read More »


Limitation on Flickr?

You must be kidding me.

Flickr is implementing new rules. You can only have 3000 contacts and maximum 75 tags for a photo? That is hilarious. Even though it might... Read More »


Migration

I am in the process of moving all my files and all the things I’ve ever put online to media temple. It’s a lot of work, since I am... Read More »


Google Tools That Might Just Save The Day

I am very excited today. Google just approved me for the beta of Website Optimizer, it will allow me to create different variation of landing page for my PPC... Read More »


Be the first one to get your iphone!

I am not even kidding. iphone countdown.com

Can you believe it? People are really going crazy over the iphone.

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SEM – Google Adwords, Yahoo Panama, MSN AdCenter Customer Service Rundown.

I have recently started doing intense corporate Search Engine Marketing at Laplink. I manage the PPC accounts and make sure they are making lots of money. After dealing with... Read More »


Phoenix, the city.

Phoenix Sky Harbor has free wireless internet! I love free wireless! All airports should have free wireless.

I still haven’t figured out what’s in Phoenix exactly, as in, major attractions. I... Read More »


Happy Birthday, Screaming Man

Image from: google

This is probably the cutest Google logo I’ve seen so far.

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Yaris Works – Podcast clinic

I was in Seattle for Yaris works which was hosted to promote Toyota’s Yaris. We had a Podcast Clinic session. We had a good time. (check out some pix... Read More »


webvisions 06 – usability for rich internet apps

Usability for Rich Internet Apps

Highly functional and responsive interfaces have long been crafted for the desktop, but bringing that same richness to the web is a still-maturing proficiency for... Read More »


webvisions 06 – mobile development panel

Mobile Development Panel

Thursday, July 20, 4:30 pm 5:30 pm Category: Mobile/iTV/PDA

Mobile promises to be the next frontier of the web, but to web developers at first glance it looks... Read More »


webvisions 06 – social metadata and the relevance revolution

Social Metadata and the Relevance Revolution

Consider this: * Google now uses over 100 pieces of information gleaned from your online behavior to serve you the most personally relevant ads. * Applications... Read More »


webvisions 06 – design patterns for the web

Thursday, July 20, 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm Category: Trending Issues

A language of interaction has been opened to the community: the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/index.php. Its goal is to... Read More »


webvisions 06 – Designing for Social Sharing

Designing for Social Sharing

Thursday, July 20, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Category: Design

In recent months, a term that has become increasingly popular is “social search”. In this talk, I will... Read More »


Commercial drive hatred

I love commercial drive, that’s why I live there. (and I live in a turret!)

But I found a link from someone who really hates commercial drive. wow. I am... Read More »


viva italia

Cathy Wang Celebrates Italy’s Victory Originally uploaded by sillygwailo.

I live on Commercial Drive in East Vancouver. It’s famous for having tons of Italians and hippies. I went down to the... Read More »


media content

A while back, I had a great conversation with uncleweed about podcasting. Uncle weed is a podcaster with lots of personality who lives in Vancouver. (You should listen to... Read More »


Seattle Madness

Hackfest! Originally uploaded by kk+.

After traveling and being on the road for so long, my trip to Seattle this week seems very short. Well, it was short. I went down... Read More »


Busy with Podcast Hotel

It’s actually pretty embarrassing for me to admit this, but I really haven’t been writing anything on my blog.

Obviously it’s all links from my delicious. I wish I have... Read More »


podcast hotel

I am at the podcast hotel seattle right now. It has been amazing. We had our first event last night with 3 bands playing: 3ce, blame amy, and fiasco.... Read More »


ubiquitous identity

I remember back in the days when everyone was using ICQ on their dial up machines, one night a big giant called microsoft suddenly took over the sky of... Read More »


The existence of hubs and emergence in democracy system.

In the article from WolrdChanging Blog it talks about Fractal Democracy.

small numbers of people, let’s say somewhere around 7 form the base cell of the organisation. Out of these,... Read More »


the emerging moment of nested things.

As I mentioned in 43things, I would like to be more involved in physical and online communities. I have actually taken action in doing that. I am building a... Read More »


ethically correct purchase decisions.

In the SAFE: Design Takes on Risk exhibition, James Patten from Tangible Media Group had a very ethical project called the Corporate Fallout detector that helps people make better... Read More »


80/20

What’s the 80/20 rule? Looking at the income distribution, we can find the existence of power law distribution. We all understand the idea of Pareto’s law of economics, which... Read More »


hubs

The idea of hub exists not only in the social network; moreover, it can be considered in an online space. Even though it is suggested by Barabasi that hub... Read More »


Growth and Preferential attachment in scale-free networks.

A real network is usually governed by the laws of growth and preferential attachment. The assumption of a network from Erdo and Renyi does not perfectly describe how real... Read More »


ordered/random network.

From the reading of Barabasi, the goal of graph theory can be considered as an aim to discover and catalogue the properties of the various graphs. I would like... Read More »


anti-preferential attachment or not?

we have noticed the preferential attachment law in application while we search on google. It is more likely that we click the hub.

I have found this other search engine... Read More »


Paul / MafiaBoy / Ants

Network connects different diverse maps together by following a common blueprint. “A string of recent breath-taking discoveries has forced us to acknowledge that amazingly simple and far-reaching natural laws... Read More »


clusters & small world

from small world network from the Santa Fe Institute Bulletin, Volume 14, Number 2 (Fall 1999). I think this image illustrate the idea of different networks better than any graphs... Read More »


more thoughts on hubs and connectors.

I found this article called Cyberspace, Cybertexts, Cybermaps” by marie-Laure Ryan throught the Patrik’s Sprawl (which is an amazing blog that I read everyday and would recomment everyone to... Read More »


rich-get-richer & fit-get-richer

The concept of rich-get-richer is an application of the preferential attachment. In a sense, it’s the seniority of the first-comers. Because the first-comers have been in the network for... Read More »


spread innovation

When we think about the spreading of virus, we have to think about AIDS. It is a failure of classical epidemic model. We realize the power of hub through... Read More »


mac-washed

Ever since the ipod shuffle and mac mini being launched there are so many jokes about mac. (I really don’t want to go into the topic of Mac mini... Read More »


cascading failure

Because of the nature of our interconnectivity in a complex network, if one of us fails all of us fails. The example of a power network breaking down causing... Read More »


Wearable? Wavable?

I remember everyone was having this hype of having wearables that flashes words at people. “hey i think you’re hot!”. Nokia – Xpress-on Fun Shells Main pageis the next... Read More »


Fibonacci Series revisited.

Even after reading and creating a whole project relating to Fibonacci series, I never really got the real essence of it.

Finally here comes a great illustration from : What the... Read More »


more on network mapping

I am thinking that it must be a bad weekend for servers or there is a huge attack on internet that brought down lots of nodes. It’s weird enough... Read More »


coffehouse philosophy in the coffeehouse

While reading the 4th link – small world from the “Linked” by Barabasi, a quote triggered me. “Such coffeehouse philosophy rarely leads to serious research.” Six degrees of separation... Read More »


topological robustness

Complex network is vulnerable because it’s strong interconnectivity. It might be one of the biggest characteristic and one of its best features; however, it becomes a vulnerable point where... Read More »


access the power of media

Chomsky proposed that there are two kinds of people. One where they shapes our society and one where they do what they have been told. I suppose the old... Read More »


Topology, Network Mapping, The Internet

An Atlas of cyberspaces – topology Maps is a great website that gives a lot of information on network mapping and the topology of the web. It’s really worth... Read More »


continents/islands/central core/tendrils

Why do we say the web is fragmented? We have to understand that all directed networks break into the same four continents. The continents include central core, IN, OUT,... Read More »


open source media

If we have to talk about open source media, we would definitely have to look at pegasusnews

Pegasus News is a local news company that has reinvented the broken content... Read More »


green chemistry in relation to open source?

USATODAY.com – Green chemistry takes root

(Via WorldChanging.)

If we look at the concept of green chemistry I think we can look at it as an open source technology going around... Read More »


Is emergence system killing open source?

After reading Microsoft To Patent Instructional Feedback To User Responses – Robin Good’s Latest News I started wondering if the emergence system described in the Microsoft’s attempt is killing... Read More »


Future Now: Open source and the production of knowledge

Future Now: Open source and the production of knowledge:

“The assumption that contributors share a common understanding of what defines a decent article on a subject, what constitutes important facts,... Read More »


powerlaw

While most of the systems in nature follows a bell curve, which is a distribution of that’s similar to the peaked distribution characterizing random networks. By looking at the... Read More »


More networks. more complexity. more. more. more.

While I was searching for marco Dorigo I came across Computer and Information Science Papers CiteSeer Publications ResearchIndex. It’s a scientific literature digital library. It’s an awesome... Read More »