February 13th, 2008
Today we put the finishing touches on the new version of the UltraSuperNew website and hit the big red LAUNCH button. It has been a long time coming and I am very happy to have it finally out there. Basically we got sick of people asking us what we do, so we squeezed a few [...]
February 6th, 2008
Since we launched the Flightclub website last year we have been watching the odd sources of traffic that make it to the site. One of the things we noticed early on is that we started to rank high in google and yahoo search results for some strange terms. With the new version launch in January, [...]
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 early 2007. Most notoriously, [...]
January 29th, 2008
Today we released the new version of one of our big projects from last year, Flightclub. The project was built for KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) and in its young life has already become an authority on many interesting topics related (and not so related) to travel in Europe for the Japanese market. We were very [...]
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 bit-torrent network as a [...]
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 with an ReacTable style [...]
January 26th, 2008
I found a very nice little campaign today from the good people at the Mozilla Developer Center. They are pushing the open standards movement and have made a very nice little banner to help the effort. At UltraSuperNew Inc. we are big supporters and users of open standards, so I want to pass on the [...]
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 top of the video feeds, [...]
January 12th, 2008
I am very happy to announce that on Friday we (ie. the UltraSuperNew Inc. team) finally put the new website for Pecha Kucha Night live. We have been fans, audience members and presenters at Pecha Kucha Night since its inception in 2003, so this is a special project for us to be working on. We [...]
January 8th, 2008
Its time for another UltraSuperTube event! UltraSuperTube is about having as much fun as possible running a party completely by streaming content from the interweb. We did the first event in 2007 and enjoyed it so much that we are back for seconds. Vol. 1 was all streamed from YouTube. For Vol. 2 we are [...]
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