February 5th, 2010
Visitors to the Japanese App Store on iTunes today were greeted with an array of character parts that an astute eye could recognise as the cartoon character, Doraemon. Yahoo Japan (who has strong connections with Softbank, the carrier who has iPhone in the Japanese market) has released a selection of Doraemon themed Apps that have [...]
January 16th, 2010
On our final day in the office for 2009, we spent a little time discussing our favorite projects for the year and for me, this past year was really something to be proud of. We managed to step it up to the next level this year, and even though some days it seemed like a tornado of different things all demanding attention, we managed to achieve a lot. In the end, keeping the list down to 10 projects…
September 11th, 2009
Today we launched Red Bull Crowdcast, which is as far as I know the first time a global brand has handed over the keys of live casting an event to the audience and allowing them to show their vision of the event in real time.
August 16th, 2009
This blog has been on hiatus for a while now, since November last year to be more precise. So I thought anybody who is good enough to read what I have to say deserves a bit of an explanation about where I have been all this time. There are a few different reasons, let me run them down for you …
November 18th, 2008
Taito asked us to take a mobile phone with “Chokkan Band”, a game that lets you play guitar and other instruments and have some fun. We decided the best way to do that was to get friend of USN, Shiri, some bright pink makeup, bad fitting clothes, and see where we could get away with playing Chokkan Band around Tokyo.
August 20th, 2008
Via a tip from one of my team here at UltraSuperNew, I found that apparently there is a new niche market in Tokyo.
The lucrative “girls who travel to Tokyo via Shinkansen (bullet train) in search of love” demographic is apparently on the rise and are now being catered to with their own magazine called Shinkansen&Love.
July 22nd, 2008
I have held off until now about writing about anything related to the iPhone on this blog. So many people have written so much that I didn’t think another post was necessary.
However, I feel compelled to write this one just because using it encourages me to write about it.
I am writing my first post from [...]
July 19th, 2008
One of the things that has long amazed me about Japanese blogs is the use of blog widgets or “blog parts” as they are referred to in Japanese. Blog widgets are small snippets of code you can insert into your blog to create fun, interesting, useful or just plain strange tools into your blog pages.
Perhaps [...]
July 13th, 2008
Recently we, as a collective internet populace, have become very good at republishing our comments, images, and other life streaming features to multiple platforms.
Our status updates are the most common, with Twitter (and for the early adopters, FriendFeed) being the easiest and most common to republish elsewhere. Some of the common places to push your [...]
May 7th, 2008
Now that Twitter has hit Japan in Japanese, and as I wait for the first official word about how that is going for the good people at Twitter Japan, I have been putting my mind to the future of Micro-blogging and more importantly, how important is Twitter in that picture.
There have been a lot of [...]
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