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22 Oct, 2008

Japanese web services

Posted by: Cathy Wang In: web

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 [...]

03 Sep, 2008

What’s up with this blog

Posted by: Cathy Wang In: web

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 [...]

06 Sep, 2007

Search in google reader.

Posted by: Cathy Wang In: web

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 search
I hope Google extends the search bar to all their services, and hopefully update all loading graphics for all services as well.

05 Sep, 2007

Craigslist thinking about paid posting?

Posted by: Cathy Wang In: search| web

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?

30 Jan, 2007

Limitation on Flickr?

Posted by: Cathy Wang In: general| web

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 seem like a good way of filtering out spams and people using flickr as a social networking tool, but who says that it shouldn’t be how [...]

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27 Jan, 2007

Migration

Posted by: Cathy Wang In: web

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 hosting 2 other domains and have 3 blogs to move. I have decided to move all my domains and all my hosting to media temple. If [...]

22 Jan, 2007

Tools That Might Just Save The Day

Posted by: Cathy Wang In: online marketing| web

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 campaign and hopefully allow me to find the best body copy for my landing page. (watch the demo here) Adwords is all surrounded by the ability [...]

11 Dec, 2006

Happy Birthday, Screaming Man

Posted by: Cathy Wang In: web

Image from: google
This is probably the cutest Google logo I’ve seen so far.