February 21st, 2008
I recently had a nice chat with Georg Godula from Web2Asia about what it takes to make in the interactive industry in Japan. He followed that up with an interview with me and has recently published that on Web2Asia. Check it out here : Scene Report: Japan – UltraSuperNew Inc. In the interview I talk [...]
February 17th, 2008
Recently Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten of The Next Web (a blog I also write for) reported on what was a breaking story on independent record label, Dependent Records, closing shop and making their entire catalog available on file sharing site, Pirate Bay. It turns out the story was a hoax, republished by a number of [...]
February 14th, 2008
Matt Romaine, lead developer over at Columbia’s Otorevo here in Japan just wrote on his blog that the Otorevo platform has just announced its first album release. Otorevo (“Sound Revolution”) is Columbia Japan’s attempt to get on to the social bandwagon, giving the public the power to select which artists get the record deal. First [...]
February 5th, 2008
Today Fon Japan and Livedoor, one of Japan’s biggest ISPs, announced they would start a partnership to connect their free Wifi access points across Japan. Livedoor is coming out of some hard times after the very public and very dramatic securities fraud convictions that led to sentences for four executives in early 2007. Most notoriously, [...]
January 28th, 2008
I recently checked out the documentary film “Steal This Film II“. It is a film put together by the League of Noble Peers, a group of file sharing evangelists who got together for the purpose of communicating about the realities of digital media sharing. The documentary itself was released over the bit-torrent network as a [...]
January 26th, 2008
Spanish open source project ReacTable has been in my ear a lot recently. First it was integrated in an invitation to an event I went along to recently. After arriving at the event and you were able to use the invitation card (about the size and thickness of a credit card with an ReacTable style [...]
December 12th, 2007
[ This article has also been published in the Japan Times ] Media distribution methods are changing, and what it brings is not all bad for creators. Over the last year or two, Tokyo-based minimal-techno producer Shane Berry (shaneberry.com) saw online media remolding his industry and set about exploring how he should adapt to deal [...]
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