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 [...]
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.
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. [...]
April 23rd, 2008
I spent Tuesday evening at the Dutch Embassy to sit on the final jury for the Dutch-Japan GameJam. I was in good company with representatives from Cell, Taito and the Dutch Embassy in Japan joining me on the jury. This was the second jury stage of the GameJam, with the first being back in March, [...]
March 30th, 2008
I have a new article up on TheNextWeb.org. I write about one of the methods for URL referencing in Japan. We have several interesting ways to refer toURLs here in Japan. I have written about QRCodes before, there is also a large number of advertisements in Japan that simply show the word you should search [...]
March 19th, 2008
Japan Times just published my latest article for their technology section, Techno Times. This time I am writing about the Japan GameJam, for which I was invited to go over to The Netherlands a week and a half ago. I was over there with my business partner, Marc Wesseling, to give a lecture about mobile [...]
February 29th, 2008
I was quite surprised today to receive my regular mail from Apple Japan touting their latest clever gadgets only to see some of the most un-Apple accessories I have ever come across. It is for a tie up with luxury brand Swarovski, who are famous for their crystal. The Swarovski brand has a good reputation [...]
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, [...]
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