Author: Chad Kohalyk
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Q&A: What’s the Japanese equivalent of [enter foreign web service here]?
Serkan Toto does a great roundup of Japanese websites analogous to popular American and European sites. There are even a few on the list that I didn’t know about. Last April I analyzed the top 100 sites accessed in Japan and tried to point out gaps in the Japanese web that could be filled by…
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Lost in Translation: The best part of iPhone SMS is the emoji. Via @IA
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Lost in Translation: The best part of iPhone SMS is the emoji. Via @IA
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the problem of software development in Japan
@gen Kanai reacts to Tabuchi’s NYT article by discussing how the Galapagos problem applies to software development in Japan. I love how he picks apart Takeshi Natsuno’s solution to “focus more on software and must be more aggressive in hiring foreign talent, and the country’s cellphone carriers must also set their sights overseas.” The “foreign…
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Japanese cellphones may be clever, but that doesn’t make them smart
Hiroko Tabuchi’s NYT article on Why Japan’s Cellphones Haven’t Gone Global has been making the rounds. It is a good article, but she makes one unfortunate mistake: she uses that amorphous term “smartphone” to describe Japanese cellphones. Luckily, she only does it once in the whole article, but I fear the damage has been done.…
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<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqC73omSk4o The hilarious Mitchell and Webb and Abraham and Isaac on the impossibility of forming an independent basis for morality outside of religion. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
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If Aliens Were Tuning Into Our Television Frequencies… | FlowingData Via akky
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If Aliens Were Tuning Into Our Television Frequencies… | FlowingData Via akky
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All or nothing
Sad but true. I would wager that in Japan the IE percentage is even sharper for similar reasons. Individuals can be persuaded to upgrade through browser-sniffing dialogs and whatnot. Companies, on the other hand, need a bigger push. Granted, it takes more than a couple of clicks for an IT department to upgrade a browser…
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Evolutionary Perspectives featuring Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker, Jared Diamond and Douglas Adams
I finally got around to listening to this three hour marathon of brilliance — Darwinism in biology, philosophy, anthropological history, cognitive science and its influence on a hilarious lay-scifi writer. For me this panel was full of personal heroes. I have been a huge fan of Douglas Adams and his work for years. I did…