Comments on: Applications from Japanese companies welcome for Techcrunch 50 http://asiajin.com/blog/2008/05/28/applications-from-japanese-companies-welcome-for-techcrunch-50/ The Next Generation Internet Trends in Japan and Asia Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:44:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: 【メモ】 TechCrunch 50 垂ｵ込みに向けての準備:アート資本主義 - CNET Japan http://asiajin.com/blog/2008/05/28/applications-from-japanese-companies-welcome-for-techcrunch-50/comment-page-1/#comment-521 【メモ】 TechCrunch 50 垂ｵ込みに向けての準備:アート資本主義 - CNET Japan Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:43:21 +0000 http://asiajin.com/blog/?p=337#comment-521 [...] TechCrunch 50 の関連情報。英字ブログ「 Ajiajin 」のこのエントリーと、TechCrunch [...]

]]> By: Any Japanese web companies for TechCrunch 50? - Tokyo2Point0 http://asiajin.com/blog/2008/05/28/applications-from-japanese-companies-welcome-for-techcrunch-50/comment-page-1/#comment-308 Any Japanese web companies for TechCrunch 50? - Tokyo2Point0 Sat, 31 May 2008 10:17:25 +0000 http://asiajin.com/blog/?p=337#comment-308 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] View Discussions Asiajin has a post up about how TechCrunch Japan is seeking out web companies to enter into the TechCrunch 50 contest that is happening this year. I am curious to learn of companies that you guys think should enter. If you have a moment, post a comment over on Asiajin's site: http://asiajin.com/blog/2008/05/28/applications-from-japanese-compa... [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] View Discussions Asiajin has a post up about how TechCrunch Japan is seeking out web companies to enter into the TechCrunch 50 contest that is happening this year. I am curious to learn of companies that you guys think should enter. If you have a moment, post a comment over on Asiajin’s site: http://asiajin.com/blog/2008/05/28/applications-from-japanese-compa... [...]

]]> By: Christophe Sautot http://asiajin.com/blog/2008/05/28/applications-from-japanese-companies-welcome-for-techcrunch-50/comment-page-1/#comment-307 Christophe Sautot Sat, 31 May 2008 09:20:07 +0000 http://asiajin.com/blog/?p=337#comment-307 Thanks for your responses. Yeah, I am interested to find a cool product or web service in Japan that I don't know of yet, and especially one that could compete on an international level. I did find this company recently: http://www.sprasia.com/ They seem to be a mixup of Youtube, Nico Nico, and desktop video editing, and will be launching an English and Chinese version of their service. Also, although I am not a big fan of the whole "Web 2.0" phrase, there was an event held here in Tokyo in May called the Web 2.0 Marketing Fair. Here are some of their links to English resources: http://www.web20-expo.jp/en/ http://www.web20-expo.jp/en/exhibitor/ https://www.exhibitor.jp/SODEC/en/index.php?ID=PUB I did not attend the event, but maybe there were some applicable companies that were there. Does anyone know? Akky, and Serkan, I think it would still be better though if you could get things to a point were people don't have to sign up. I would actually prefer a CAPTCHA to signing up. And there are services like Akismet that you can use with WordPress to help fight against spam. Another thing you can do is add "nofollow" on links in comments so that Google doesn't follow through with the link. Keep up the great reporting though! Thanks for your responses.

Yeah, I am interested to find a cool product or web service in Japan that I don’t know of yet, and especially one that could compete on an international level.

I did find this company recently:

http://www.sprasia.com/

They seem to be a mixup of Youtube, Nico Nico, and desktop video editing, and will be launching an English and Chinese version of their service.

Also, although I am not a big fan of the whole “Web 2.0″ phrase, there was an event held here in Tokyo in May called the Web 2.0 Marketing Fair. Here are some of their links to English resources:

http://www.web20-expo.jp/en/
http://www.web20-expo.jp/en/exhibitor/
https://www.exhibitor.jp/SODEC/en/index.php?ID=PUB

I did not attend the event, but maybe there were some applicable companies that were there. Does anyone know?

Akky, and Serkan, I think it would still be better though if you could get things to a point were people don’t have to sign up. I would actually prefer a CAPTCHA to signing up. And there are services like Akismet that you can use with WordPress to help fight against spam. Another thing you can do is add “nofollow” on links in comments so that Google doesn’t follow through with the link. Keep up the great reporting though!

]]> By: Akky Akimoto http://asiajin.com/blog/2008/05/28/applications-from-japanese-companies-welcome-for-techcrunch-50/comment-page-1/#comment-249 Akky Akimoto Fri, 30 May 2008 08:08:25 +0000 http://asiajin.com/blog/?p=337#comment-249 Thanks for your feedback Christophe, I changed to turn off the CAPTCHA for Asiajin registered users so now it is only required when you register Asiajin. I agree that free comments calls more feedbacks and feedback is so important for us to decide which news we take, which give up. This "user only" comment limitation is mainly because we cannot take enough time to handle comment spammer's robots. Sorry for inconvenience. Thanks for your feedback Christophe,

I changed to turn off the CAPTCHA for Asiajin registered users so now it is only required when you register Asiajin.

I agree that free comments calls more feedbacks and feedback is so important for us to decide which news we take, which give up.

This “user only” comment limitation is mainly because we cannot take enough time to handle comment spammer’s robots. Sorry for inconvenience.

]]> By: Serkan Toto http://asiajin.com/blog/2008/05/28/applications-from-japanese-companies-welcome-for-techcrunch-50/comment-page-1/#comment-247 Serkan Toto Thu, 29 May 2008 15:29:41 +0000 http://asiajin.com/blog/?p=337#comment-247 Your suggestion will be discussed, let's see what we can do. Thank you very much for the pointer. As to the TC50 companies: There were no really overwhelming products in last year's contest, if you ask me. All entries were surely good, some even great but there was no Google 2 or anything. And I don't think a company which manages to participate must be. Mild innovation is OK, I guess. From Japan, I can see some companies especially in the mobile field with chances. http://www.stargames.co.jp/ (translation via mobile phones) Mobage Dena http://www.rockbird.jp/ (CMS system for mobiles) http://nextninja.net/ (mobile videos) and many others come to mind. On the web front, companies like Nico Nico (obviously) are interesting. Enigmo's Rollmio is cool. I covered KakikoTV on my personal blog Tokyotronic. And narabe.com, of course ;). Actually any existing company can apply if they have a cool new product, maybe there is one being developed in Japan as of now (which we don't know of yet). TC50 would be a great chance for exposure... Your suggestion will be discussed, let’s see what we can do. Thank you very much for the pointer.

As to the TC50 companies:
There were no really overwhelming products in last year’s contest, if you ask me. All entries were surely good, some even great but there was no Google 2 or anything. And I don’t think a company which manages to participate must be. Mild innovation is OK, I guess.

From Japan, I can see some companies especially in the mobile field with chances.
http://www.stargames.co.jp/ (translation via mobile phones)
Mobage
Dena
http://www.rockbird.jp/ (CMS system for mobiles)
http://nextninja.net/ (mobile videos)
and many others come to mind.

On the web front, companies like Nico Nico (obviously) are interesting. Enigmo’s Rollmio is cool. I covered KakikoTV on my personal blog Tokyotronic. And narabe.com, of course ;) .

Actually any existing company can apply if they have a cool new product, maybe there is one being developed in Japan as of now (which we don’t know of yet). TC50 would be a great chance for exposure…

]]> By: Christophe Sautot http://asiajin.com/blog/2008/05/28/applications-from-japanese-companies-welcome-for-techcrunch-50/comment-page-1/#comment-246 Christophe Sautot Thu, 29 May 2008 05:22:42 +0000 http://asiajin.com/blog/?p=337#comment-246 It would be interesting Serkan if you could maybe list some example companies in Japan that you think have sites, web applications, or projects that you think have a chance to compete with the rest of the TC50 applicants. I would love to see Japanese companies enter into this as I think more light needs to be pointed onto what is happening in the industry here. Or, anyone else that reads this post, please post their sites of choice. Thanks! Also, I think that having people to sign up with Asiajin in order to post a comment is pretty tedious. You might want to consider just taking someone's email address and info details instead.... just a suggestion. It would be interesting Serkan if you could maybe list some example companies in Japan that you think have sites, web applications, or projects that you think have a chance to compete with the rest of the TC50 applicants. I would love to see Japanese companies enter into this as I think more light needs to be pointed onto what is happening in the industry here. Or, anyone else that reads this post, please post their sites of choice. Thanks!

Also, I think that having people to sign up with Asiajin in order to post a comment is pretty tedious. You might want to consider just taking someone’s email address and info details instead…. just a suggestion.

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