Archive for the ‘Japan Tech’ Category
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, 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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