Posted Friday May 16, 2008, 10:11 pm, Over one day old
I'm leaving today for the 24/7: A DIY Video Summit. My sister Mimi blogs:We are in the early stages of a fundamental transformation in how we create, share and view video. This transformation is enabling a new media ecology that...
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Posted Friday May 16, 2008, 10:11 pm, Over one day old
In January, my company Digital Garage invested in Twitter and announced plans to work together with Twitter to create a Japanese version of the service. That service just went live. It's still part of the main Twitter service, but...
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Posted Thursday May 22, 2008, 10:39 pm, Over one day old
Just about everyone I talk to is very excited about mobile Internet. In 2006, the Japanese government proudly announced that more people used the Internet through their mobile phones than through their computers. Online services are all talking about their...
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Posted Thursday May 22, 2008, 10:39 pm, Over one day old
Today, Creative Commons announced that we will be exploring the idea of a copyright registry. A registry could solve a variety of problems that we have. For instance, the orphan works problem where it is not clear who to contact...
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Posted Thursday May 22, 2008, 10:39 pm, Over one day old
Boing Boing TV post with the video is up. Ever since I moved to the boonies, I've posted photos and other notes about my bamboo shoots on Flickr and my blog. This year, after my first post about this...
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Posted Thursday May 22, 2008, 10:39 pm, Over one day old
On panel with Jun Murai, the father of the Japanese Internet Today is the 20th anniversary of the WIDE project which created the Japanese Internet. Thanks to Skype (is there a good h323 client for the Mac?), I'm in...
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Posted Thursday May 22, 2008, 10:39 pm, Over one day old
Over the last few years, my blogging slowed down and came nearly to a halt. I tried to figure out what had happened. Had I written about everything that I was interested in already? Was I just sick of blogging?...
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Posted Thursday May 22, 2008, 10:39 pm, Over one day old
This photo is actually one that I took at the CC Birthday Party I'm at Google Zeitgeist and just got a copy of the talk that Gilberto Gil gave. (Thanks Claudio!) I wish we had such a cool, smart...
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Posted Thursday May 22, 2008, 10:39 pm, Over one day old
In January, my company Digital Garage invested in Twitter and announced plans to work together with Twitter to create a Japanese version of the service. That service just went live. It's still part of the main Twitter service, but...
Read Twitter Japan is a go! (Links)
Posted Thursday May 22, 2008, 10:39 pm, Over one day old
Oki Matsumoto of Monex sent me another interesting GDP slide supporting the idea that IT is equalizing GDP per capita.OkiBefore the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, the GDP share of the world was in ratio to the population of...
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