Earlier this week Google announced its upcoming communications platform Wave. I watched the entire 80 minute developer preview video today and was intrigued and impressed. I signed up for beta access right away. It is…
Date Archives May 2009
Japanese Twitter user numbers by Nielsen
Netratings, a web ad market analysis firm owned by Nielsen, has compiled country data from a Nielsen report last month revealing the number of Twitter users in Japan compared to the US and UK. There…
Illustrated Star Wars Alphabet
“A” is for Ackbar… Illustrated Star Wars Alphabet
Andrew Sullivan misunderstands the “long tail”
A new British study finds that the most pirated pop songs on the internet are those that already top the charts. Instead of giving rise to a “long tail” where small indie acts broaden their…
MOSA
An NPO supporting Macintosh software developers in Japan. Other than ADC this seems to be the only place Japanese devs can get support. MOSA
iPhone’s disappointing lack of effect on keitai UX
Softbank and DoCoMo have released their summer lineup of mobile phones, one year after the initial release of the iPhone. I was truly optimistic. When the iPhone hit Japan last year I was excited at…