By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
My 3rd article on Techcrunch is now online, this time I blogged Mixi. The Japanese version can be found here on Techcrunch Japan, the French version on Techcrunch France. A blogger published an unofficial Chinese translation. Although the company is worth $1 billion, almost no one outside Japan...
After not being able to attend last month, I went to the Mobile Monday Tokyo event last…Monday. This time the event took place in a lounge-like club space in Akasaka. Unfortunately, I was too late for Sadayuki Matsumoto’s presentation on trunc, a personalized homepage service focused on...
On Wednesday, I took part in the Venture Beat Networking Party again. Japan’s Mixi in human form, Hisashi “Sam” Katsuya from IBM Japan, was kind enough to invite me (and believe me, this man knows EVERYONE in the Japanese IT world). The “closed” event (invitation only)...
The 4th Ultrasupertube event, organized by Tokyo-based creative agency, UltraSuperNew, took place last Wednesday in Azabu, Tokyo. The event’s concept:Submit a couple of cool videos you would like to see projected on the big screen during the event at the venue (a place called SuperDeluxe)...
Since today, Japan-based web companies are welcome to send in applications for the 4th Mash-up awards jointly organized by Sun Microsystems Japan and Recruit. The first price is 10 million Yen (approximately $10,000). Applications will be accepted until September 16th, while the awards show will be...
I attended a huge IT industry event in Tokyo this week, which actually included three “mini expos” in one:– Business Blog & SNS World 08– Virtual World Conference & Expo 2008– Linux World Expo / Tokyo 2008. The event took place at Tokyo Big Sight, a huge...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry