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A marketing consultant who focuses on the web hosting industry. http://www.isabelwang.com/ is the home of Isabel Wang's blog.
January 2008
Thursday January 31, 2008
Posted by: Isabel Wang at 2:49PM EST on January 31, 2008
I was reading The Houdini Solution; the last chapter ends with Einstein's Puzzle. Kevin says it can only be solved by 2% of the world's population, but this website claims that the average time to solve it is about an...
Posted by: Isabel Wang at 10:05AM EST on January 31, 2008
I came across this ancient Washington Post ad on Flickr. I had never imagined 1920s businessmen having Chinese food for lunch. Image from rockcreek's Flickr stream Out of curiosity I looked up "1920s Chinese restaurant" and found the Google Books'...
Monday January 28, 2008
Posted by: Isabel Wang at 1:06AM EST on January 28, 2008
There's an interesting article in this week's New York Times Magazine about Kiva, a microfinance non-profit that matches sponsors with third-world entrepreneurs. The organization has generated so much interest among supporters that it sometimes runs out of loan-seekers to give...
Friday January 25, 2008
Posted by: Isabel Wang at 1:03PM EST on January 25, 2008
1. In 2005, Basex, an analyst firm, estimated that interruptions consume 28% of a knowledge worker's day. Basex CEO Jonathan Spira lamented that whether you're at home, in your office, or working from a client site, "the likelihood of being...
Wednesday January 23, 2008
Posted by: Isabel Wang at 1:08PM EST on January 23, 2008
Would you buy DialUpISP.com (the domain name, with no customers/equipment/etc attached) for $5K? That was its owner's asking price at yesterday's DomainFest auction (spotted via DomainNameNews). No takers. Still, if you think *nobody* uses dialup any more, you'd be wrong....
Tuesday January 22, 2008
Posted by: Isabel Wang at 12:42PM EST on January 22, 2008
I listed a bunch of old books on Amazon Marketplace. I like it better than eBay: there are no upfront costs, and all you have to do is set your price. No worrying about choosing the right auction format/duration/starting price,...
Monday January 21, 2008
Posted by: Isabel Wang at 10:55AM EST on January 21, 2008
I stayed up until 3am to finish reading It's Not Luck, a manufacturing thriller in which a fast-thinking manager races against the clock to save three ailing companies from disaster. Against all odds, he comes up with one miraculous solution...
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