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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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