By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Facebook‘s CEO Marc Zuckerberg personally traveled to Tokyo to announce the launch of the Japanese version of his super-successful social network. Actually he came for just a day (on May 20th), gave a few interviews telling why Japanese people should join Facebook and left. It goes without...
Japanese web and telecom giant Softbank and China-based B2B platform Alibaba are collaborating. 65 percent of Alibaba Japan will be owned by Softbank, the rest by Alibaba’s parent company. The companies are investing 20 million USD into the joint venture. There are over 1 million products...
The YAPC Asia in Tokyo ended yesterday. Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend (and try to understand as a Non-Techie) all presentations: I was simply too busy.Next year, I will be there again (here is my former post on the event). On Monday, I will be attending the JUI 2008 conference in Tokyo...
Following the tokyo2point0 event the day before yesterday, I took part in the Yet another Perl conference (aka YAPC Asia) in Tokyo today. The event which will go on for one more day is taking place on the Tokyo Institute of Technology campus in Ookayama. The YAPC Asia is a HUGE conference: A...
I guess there is no doubt that in a couple of years, the link between Television and the web will be much stronger than it is now. Here in Japan, TV sets featuring direct Internet access are expected to be sold as early as next year. In preparation of this move, manufacturers and web TV providers...
There is a huge interest in Japanese geek and otaku culture in the west and I feel it is even growing. Now, one of the most influential and famous geek blogs of this country, Netafull, decided to establish an English version. In my “Top 50 blogs of Japan” ranking from January, Netafull...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry