Category: Japan
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Anti-foreign vote fridge magnet I got in the post today. (Just to clarify, everyone got it, they weren’t targeting me or anything.)
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Anti-foreign vote fridge magnet I got in the post today. (Just to clarify, everyone got it, they weren’t targeting me or anything.)
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Japanese web browser preferences
From What Japan Thinks. By no means a definitive sample, but the 31% Firefox marketshare is encouraging. Japanese web browser preferences
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Defining an iPhone killer
Excellent point made by Julien Cayzac made in three tweets: 1 SH-01B (Sharp’s Aquos Shot: 12.1M cam, 3.4” WVGA display, BluRay compatible) still top selling phone in JP Jan 4→10. iPhone 3GS is 2nd & 3rd 2 It’s been quite a while since iPhone hasn’t made it back to 1st position in rankings, despite being…
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SLIDE: The three mistaken assumptions of foreign cellphone operators in Japan: “QWERTY” is the most comfortable input for every human being People want their PC experience on a mobile Two handed multitouch is always easier than single handed From @akky Akimoto’s presentation on Japan’s tech scene to the Taiwanese tech community. The presentation has a…
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SLIDE: The three mistaken assumptions of foreign cellphone operators in Japan: “QWERTY” is the most comfortable input for every human being People want their PC experience on a mobile Two handed multitouch is always easier than single handed From @akky Akimoto’s presentation on Japan’s tech scene to the Taiwanese tech community. The presentation has a…
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[vimeo 8550597 w=500 h=281] We decided to ring in the new year at the top of the world! Here is a vid taken from Nagoya’s TV Tower. It is a 360 degree pan of Nagoya from the center of the city, then a short trip down the elevator. Watch it in HD at Vimeo. (Source:…
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Photos from my Xmas and New Years in Kyoto at flickr.
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Photos from my Xmas and New Years in Kyoto at flickr.
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“Pure simplicity”: Apple in the 2010s
In 1984 the Macintosh was introduced as a computer “For the rest of us.” It never really lived up to that potential. In 1989 Douglas Adams wrote an article for MacUser detailing his frustration with modern computing. Back then it was overly complex, riddled with software and hardware compatibility issues, too many cables, too many…