Month: May 2009
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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 definitely worth your time if you are interested in how internet communication will change over the next five years. Go…
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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 are about half a million Japanese users compared to the UK’s 2.5 million users. Twitter’s US base has exploded over…
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Illustrated Star Wars Alphabet
“A” is for Ackbar… Illustrated Star Wars Alphabet
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Now there’s a hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is.
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Now there’s a hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is.
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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 appeal online, the study found that digital technology – and music pirating – simply work to reinforce the fat head…
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Like yourmonkeycalled I too enjoyed taking The Deck Ad Network Readership Survey.
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Like yourmonkeycalled I too enjoyed taking The Deck Ad Network Readership Survey.
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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
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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 the prospect of a shakeup for Japanese mobile handset makers. I hoped they would be forced to abandon their horrid…