Archive for April, 2008

Twitter Tweets in Japanese

Friday, April 25th, 2008

I posted a story on Wednesday about the new Japanese version of Twitter over at The Next Web. Read the story here : Twitter launches Japanese language version I am working on more about the topic of foreign services moving into Japan and also about the nature of social web success and ...

Dutch-Japan GameJam winner decided

Wednesday, 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 ...

Pimping The Puppets

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Pimping The Last Shadow Puppets with a limited budget to play with, we had to try some unconventional methods. We ended up taking a unique approach by making a Gorilla Guerrilla promotion. In Japan advertising for music involves grabbing the biggest truck that will fit down the main streets in Shibuya ...

The three stages of relevance and why the social web is broken

Monday, April 21st, 2008

I have been wanting to do this story for a while based on my experiences of working with social media and trying to make sense of the growth and subsequent abandonment of many social networks. It seems it is every month that we have another star social network, social web concept, ...

Pecha Kucha Night Tokyo hits #50!

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Back on Wednesday 26th March it was the big 50th event for Pecha Kucha Night Tokyo and I was very happy to be invited by Mark Dytham to make one of the presentations. I gave a bit of a rundown on the Salaryman Sato campaign we put together last year. ...

Sneak a peak at USN’s bookmarks

Monday, April 7th, 2008

I have been a little bit off the blogging for the last couple of weeks with a busy schedule. Never fear though, we have lots of new things happening at UltraSuperNew Inc. Freshly added to our website is the new Bookmarks page. The page shows our latest links, images and videos pulled ...