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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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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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Digital Children and Digital Natives

I’m in Las Vegas for participating in FASTForward ’09 organized by the search engine technology leader FAST, which was merged and acquired by Microsoft last year. Don Tapscott, who is the author of “growing up digital (Japanese Title: Digital Children)”, made a keynote speech at the top of the conference.  I’ve heard about him from … Continue reading Digital Children and Digital Natives


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TechCrunch / CrunchGear Meet-up in Ebisu

Peter Ha, who is the editor of famous gadget tech blog CrunchGear, is visiting Japan, and his colleague and TechCrunch writer Serkan Toto organized a meet-up event in Ebisu. I attended the event followed by another meet-up for the rotary club in Shinagawa, TC meet-up has been already started when I arrtived in the venue. … Continue reading TechCrunch / CrunchGear Meet-up in Ebisu


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Mitsui VC Holds Business Plan Competition for Cellphone Apps

There was the award presentation ceremony of the business plan competition held last Tuesday in Akihabara by Mitsui & Co’s venture capital firm. IT journalist Nobuyuki Hayashi, Satoshi Endo from Ascii Research Institute, and Takashi Betsui from CNET Japan were invited as judges for the competition’s awards, I attended the event because interesting persons came together to … Continue reading Mitsui VC Holds Business Plan Competition for Cellphone Apps


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A Sweet Address on the Chocolate

This year’s first edition of tokyo2point0 was held last Monday. Several hosting provider companies gave the presentation on their services in the event. One of the presenters gave away chocolates to attendees as shown below. There’s QR code on it, your cellphone may show you the presenter’s promotion website only by scanning the code. Japanese … Continue reading A Sweet Address on the Chocolate


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Many Internet Services Report Presidential Inauguration

When someone becomes Japan’s new prime minister, there’s not so many event for the celebration.   But neither is there for the U.S. President’s case. The traditional Japanese word meaning politics “matsurigoto” is stemmed from “matsuri” meaning festival or celebration, and I hope his inauguration makes something happen to get all the world out of recession … Continue reading Many Internet Services Report Presidential Inauguration


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Live: The Sundance Film Festival and Obama’s Inauguration

The first image reporting US Airway’s aircraft which came down in Hudson River of NYC was taken by a passenger on the sightseeing ferry there, and it was posted to Twitter. http://twitpic.com/135xa Cellphone journalism is in boom. I wrote about qik on this blog previously, there will be two live programs with the application. – … Continue reading Live: The Sundance Film Festival and Obama’s Inauguration