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Digital Kids: So Powerful That They Cause Network Down

At 85% of Mcdonald’s Japan’s entire shop chains, “Mac de DS”, allowing Nintendo DS users to download software via in-store Wi-Fi for free, launched on June 19th. But it’s not been working so well. Last Saturday when I visited Roppongi store of McD’s that the company has used for demonstration of the service, I saw … Continue reading Digital Kids: So Powerful That They Cause Network Down


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Extreme Hanami

Andrew Shuttleworth and Paul Papadimitriou organized an event cerebrating cherry blossom in bloom, Extreme Hanami and was crawling five spots in Tokyo. Participants were walking and feeling the atmosphere, and reporting it on Flickr and qik.   At final phase of the event, I joined the team at Yasukuni Shrine. Feel a little bit cold and … Continue reading Extreme Hanami


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Celebrate My Friend’s Company Was Purchased By NTT

We can find the financial term “taken over” in Japanese dictionary, but nor for its opposite meaning. As for M&A meaning merge & acquisition, “merge” has feeling of neutral and the third-party view in it, and “acquisition” has a buyer’s perspective. I think it is strange that both sides should be treated in equal but … Continue reading Celebrate My Friend’s Company Was Purchased By NTT


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Tokyo Beer & Blog – 1st Meet-up

A meet-up called “Beer & Blog” origins Portland, Oregon which is the heart of the open source coummunity.   Its first Tokyo edition was held following the cities like Las Vegas and St. Lewis. Everyone is chatting with having a pint of beer in the hands.   The meet-up is held every week at a beer … Continue reading Tokyo Beer & Blog – 1st Meet-up


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Celebrate The New Book Published

There’s a project in which people think how the local journalism should be, and they created a book written by 100 authors. There was a meet-up and party to celebrate its publication at Rikkyo University. It was written by press people, reporters, journalists and students who intend to work with broadcasters. The book will not … Continue reading Celebrate The New Book Published


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Tokyo CGM Night – The 3rd

Super blogger Danny Choo from mirai.fm and Andrew Shuttleworth organizing tokyo2point0 jointly held the the third night of “Tokyo CGM Night”. Sponsored by: smart.fm (previously known as iKnow!) They have planned to hold it at a cafe restaurant in Aoyama, but the intended  attendees exceed 200 people, and they were forced to change the venue … Continue reading Tokyo CGM Night – The 3rd


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Had A Talk Session About LV Conf. At Internet Assc. Japan

On March 12th, I had a talk session at the Enterprise 2.0 / SaaS Study Group of the Internet Association Japan,  and reported FASTforward ’09 which was held in Las Vegas last month and I attended. FASTfoward is an event specifically focusing on the Enterprise Search solutions, but most people talked about today’s enterprise IT … Continue reading Had A Talk Session About LV Conf. At Internet Assc. Japan


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Invited As A Guest Lecturer At Tokyo Takanawa Rotary Club

It was snowing and the doll festival day.   Tokyo Takanawa Rotar Club held its monthly meet-up in Shinagawa Prince Hotel, where I was invited as a guest lecturer. I don’t find the difference between two groups of rotary club and lions club.   I made a presentation about the gap between Digital Natives and Digital Immigrates … Continue reading Invited As A Guest Lecturer At Tokyo Takanawa Rotary Club


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iPhone App Developers Bring Their Presentations in Ginza

There was a meet-up of the presentations by the iPhone app developers at Apple Store Ginza. It was crowded because Ryuichi Sakamoto also had a session following this meet-up.   I didn’t have enough room to take a note, but recorded it with qik. (In its final part, my camera were looking towards the ceiling as … Continue reading iPhone App Developers Bring Their Presentations in Ginza


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Singapore’s TV News Channel Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary

My first trip abroad in my life was that to Singapore. That country is one of my favorites, while we may be sentenced to flogging if something illegal involved there. Changi Airport has Koi Ponds in the premise, and for those who frustrate waste of time for transit at the airport, they have a free … Continue reading Singapore’s TV News Channel Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary