Cathy Wang

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.

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 I took) The guys from bands for fans were there and giving lots of feedback. We ended up having lunch together. Awesome peeps. Brent dropped by and gave us support as well. Thanks B.

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 like del.icio.us and Flickr enable a kind of massively multiplayer information architecture – collaborative structuring of data that supports personal, local and global views of the information space.
* And social networking sites promise to increase the relevance of everything from your personal network (Linkedin) to your RSS feeds (Rojo)

Social metadata – information about who we are, who we know, who we trust and what we do – is the fulcrum for new applications that leverage an understanding of your behavior to bring you meaningful content, products and services. It’s the foundation of the collective intelligence systems we see at work in Amazon, Google and eBay.

When Tim O’Reilly says collective intelligence will … Read More »

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. Not only did they play amazing music all night long, they were super awesome people to hang out with too. The night went on with lots of people mingling and talking. I did my virgin podcast as well, holding the official podcast hotel microphone. (It will soon be up after I capture the footage…) Thanks to thinkspot for the awesome venue and help. We will be partying there for another 2 nights.

Today we are at the triple door having our first day of conference. We have some pretty smart people talking here. Right now I am sitting at the very front row rockstar seating looking at Robert Spier from NPR … Read More »