Category: internet
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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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Twitter circa 1935
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Twitter circa 1935
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Social Technology is Like Sex…
“It’s fun to talk about and read about, but you can’t truly comprehend unless you do it.” I thought he was going to say: “It’s better if you do it with somebody else.” Social Technology is Like Sex…
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Foreign marketshare of the Japanese internet
Whether it be preferences for food, electronics or cars, Japan is often accused of being, shall we say, “domestically oriented”. How do Japanese preferences reflect in their use of the internet? The Japanese Social Media Prism shows strikingly few foreign firms. This caused me to ask: how does a foreign company crack the Japanese Social…
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Japanese Social Media Prism
Asiajin links to a visual representation of Japanese social media. I don’t get the color scheme, or the non-smoothed WinXP text, but it is nice to get an overview of the various services in use in Japan. The authors note the lack of Japan-based international sites but my question is how does one crack the…
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Via mechamecha: Only thing missing is “Feeling lucky” option, sent via carrier pidgeon (via sabino)
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Via mechamecha: Only thing missing is “Feeling lucky” option, sent via carrier pidgeon (via sabino)
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