Archive for the ‘Digital Media’ Category
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 ...
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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 ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
My good mate and Samurai.fm founder, Hash, just announced the start of a fund raising drive for Samurai.fm. This is a great opportunity to give a little back to a great source of free music that has been running for over 4 years streaming music from great DJs and musicians ...
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Thursday, 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 ...
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Sunday, 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, ...
Posted in Digital Media, The Next Web, Web Standards | 1 Comment »
Thursday, 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 ...
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Tuesday, 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 ...
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Monday, 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 ...
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Saturday, 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 ...
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Wednesday, 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 ...
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