Archive for the ‘The Next Web’ Category
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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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, 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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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, ...
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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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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
When writing a recent article about the biggest internet stories in Japan for 2007, I wrote about probably the biggest story of the year, hot-shot video site Nico Nico Douga. This site is uniquely Japanese and has some truly strange and bizarre content. By using time referenced text chat on ...
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
[ This article has also been published in the Japan Times ]
As we wind down on 2007, it's a good time to look back and see how much the Internet landscape has changed in the last year.
Internationally there have been some big shakeups, led by the dramatic effects of ...
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