Archive for March, 2008

URL Referencing in Japan

Sunday, 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 ...

Kevin Rose is copying me!

Friday, March 21st, 2008

I just read that Kevin Rose is growing a mustache for Amsterdam... surely Kevin has some more original ideas as I managed to do that already several weeks ago as my own special tribute to Holland when I visited Amsterdam and Utrecht to sit on the jury of the Dutch-Japan ...

New articles up on Japan Times and The Next Web

Wednesday, 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 ...

Press Army : the beginning

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Last night (Tuesday 11th March), we launched a new project from UltraSuperNew Inc. called Press Army. We have had it being developed in the background for some time now and it has gone through various iterations before it arrived at the point where we are ready to start letting a ...

As the world opens up, Mixi (Japan’s biggest SNS) starts a content ownership lockdown.

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

I will try not to double blog too much, so here is just a link to my post at TheNextWeb looking at the new Mixi terms of use policy that should impact a large number of people here in Japan. As the world opens up, Mixi (Japan’s biggest SNS) starts a ...