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 word you should search [...]
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 GameJam. See here proof and [...]
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 give a lecture about mobile [...]
March 12th, 2008
Last night (Tuesday 11th March), we launched a new project from UltraSuperNew Inc. called Press Army. We have had it being developed in the background for some time now and it has gone through various iterations before it arrived at the point where we are ready to start letting a limited number of outsiders in. [...]
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 content ownership lockdown.
February 29th, 2008
I was quite surprised today to receive my regular mail from Apple Japan touting their latest clever gadgets only to see some of the most un-Apple accessories I have ever come across. It is for a tie up with luxury brand Swarovski, who are famous for their crystal. The Swarovski brand has a good reputation [...]
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 and providing the soundtrack to [...]
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 the interview I talk [...]
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, republished by a number of [...]
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 the record deal. First [...]
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