http://mikesheetal.com/en About Interactive Media in Japan and being UltraSuperNew. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:07:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://mikesheetal.com/en/2008/08/20/trains-and-love-the-perfect-combination/ 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 ... http://mikesheetal.com/en/2008/07/22/wordpress-from-iphone/ 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 ... http://mikesheetal.com/en/2008/07/19/top-10-japanese-blog-widgets-blog-parts/ 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 ... http://mikesheetal.com/en/2008/07/13/ghosts-in-the-sns-machine/ OK, this post is a lot less dirty than the title. Last week, Tessa Sterkenburg, who I know through my writing for The Next Web, launched The Next Speaker, a business to manage and represent speakers talking about new media, technology, innovation or just motivational topics based in Holland. I was very ... http://mikesheetal.com/en/2008/06/26/my-dutch-pimp/ 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 ... http://mikesheetal.com/en/2008/05/07/distributed-tweets-on-the-brain/ 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 ... http://mikesheetal.com/en/2008/04/25/twitter-tweets-in-japanese/ 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 ... http://mikesheetal.com/en/2008/04/23/dutch-japan-gamejam-winner-decided/ 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 ... http://mikesheetal.com/en/2008/04/23/pimping-the-puppets/ 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, ... http://mikesheetal.com/en/2008/04/21/the-three-stages-of-relevance-and-why-the-social-web-is-broken/