By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Japan is the second biggest economy in the world, has a population of 128 million and can be proud of its vibrant and innovative Internet market. However, there is not even a handful of blogs in English covering the Japanese Internet scene. Just a couple of days before I set up Tokyotronic...
We all know how it works: Somebody smuggles a video camera into a movie theater, tapes it off the screen and uploads it on a torrent site, Emule, Winny (a Japanese P2P system) or wherever and anybody can download the file later. In my opinion, Japanese people tend to refrain from illegal...
Following the review, here is some more information about KakikoTV. I will break down this posting into two parts: I) How to register II) How to use KakikoTV Let’s begin by I) How to register The sign-up process is very easy as displayed in the JPEGs below. After confirmation, you are logged...
KakikoTV is the name of a relatively new service which has so far been exclusively marketed in Japan. I listened to the interesting presentation of the maker during the Web 2.0 Expo in Tokyo recently (my short article about the expo is here). Essentially KakikoTV enables users to modify videos and...
Scientists at the Biomedical Engineering Faculty (web site is Japanese only) of Tokyo’s Keio University (which happens to be my university) have developed a method which enables disabled people to control avatars on the Internet with their minds! The project team is lead by Keio University...
It is 1.30 AM in Japan now and I stayed awake to witness the world’s first TV show recorded in Second Life. Second Life is available in Japanese since summer and since that time registration from users from over here increased significantly. I personally don’t like the idea of being...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry