Archive for the ‘Digital Media’ Category
Wednesday, 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 ...
Posted in Digital Media | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, 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 ...
Posted in Digital Media, HOW TOs, Reviews | 1 Comment »
Saturday, 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 ...
Posted in Digital Media, Japan Tech | 2 Comments »
Sunday, 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 ...
Posted in Digital Media, Social Web | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, 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 ...
Posted in Digital Media, Social Web, Web Standards | 1 Comment »
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 ...
Posted in Digital Media, The Next Web | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Digital Media, Japan Tech | 2 Comments »
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, ...
Posted in Digital Media, Social Web | 2 Comments »
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 ...
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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 ...
Posted in Digital Media, The Next Web | 3 Comments »
