January 8th, 2008

Tokyo2point0 #8, January 2008

I have been involved in organising the Tokyo2point0 events since the second event in the middle of 2007. The night just keeps getting better and more interesting, so I hope you can all join us for edition number 8 on Tuesday 15th of January. I have copied in all the event details below from the [...]

January 7th, 2008

Getting into 2008!

I have been getting busy in the office for the last week already, but UltraSuperNew officially opened its doors for the year today. So, a big happy new year from all at USN. あけましておめでとうございます! 2007 was a big first year for us and we came much further than we imagined we could thanks to a [...]

January 7th, 2008

Tokyo Expresso at guyperryman.com

Our good friend Guy Perryman from guyperryman.com has just started, from today, a new Tokyo breakfast show called Tokyo Expresso. It is a show aimed at the international community in Tokyo and Guy is getting up super early every day to make sure he has the show uploaded by 6 or 7 am with the [...]

December 26th, 2007

The biggest Japanese Internet-related stories of 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 the meteoric rise of [...]

December 12th, 2007

Keeping control of your digital media

[ This article has also been published in the Japan Times ] Media distribution methods are changing, and what it brings is not all bad for creators. Over the last year or two, Tokyo-based minimal-techno producer Shane Berry (shaneberry.com) saw online media remolding his industry and set about exploring how he should adapt to deal [...]