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Meet Japanese Start-ups on Fri and Sat in Singapore

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Singapore is very hot on tech throughout this week, since Echelon 2011, one of the largest tech conference in South East Asia, will be taking place at the National University of Singapore, where the region's best start-up companies and services will be chosen by well-known authorities. We will join it as a media attendee and bring you live coverage.

Following the event, on the Friday evening (June 17), a Singapore-based blog covering the Asian tech scene, Penn Olson will host a meet-up, and they give Japanese four tech start-ups a chance to pitch their innovative ideas to tech geeks, Internet celebrities and investors who will have come from all across Asia. Applications for the meet-up have been already closed, but we're expecting to bring you a live streamcast or a live blogging from it.

Participating start-ups are:

Fashion Style Japan: Yoshio Narita, CEO & Founder of Qomune (See this for more)
Compath: Hiromichi Ando, CEO & Founder (w/ his colleagues) (featured in this story)
Moso: Shinji Murakoshi, CEO & Founder of Moso (featured in this story)
Cacoo: Shinsuke Tabata, Managing Dir. & co-founder of NuLab, Inc. (See this for more)

Furthermore, on Saturday at 7pm (Singaporean time), at Hackspace.SG which is located at the heart of the country's Arabic district, we will have a casual meet-up with people of the hackerspace and the four start-ups mentioned above. I'm intended not to create an agenda nor time schedule. But if you are interested in talking with these guys in person, please come and join us. (Plancast) I'm looking forward to tasting great meals by Meng Weng Wong there, who is the hackerspace's director and also known for being very good at cooking.

See you all there.

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Tags: Announcement, Asiajin Event, Community, Japan, News, Singapore by Masaru IKEDA
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Angry Jobs – Throw Ninja Stars To Beat Off Androids!

Angry Jobs is an Android game developed by Japanese Studio Hitori ("hitori" in Japanese means "one man"), who is also selling an iPad Twitter Client TwitRocker.

In the game, you play a guy who is wearing black turtleneck and blue jeans to shoot falling green Androids with shuriken, a Japanese ninja flying dagger. Swiping your finger ninja stars (throwing direction can be switched as your handedness on settings),.

I have no idea why this robot beating jobs are called angry. Probably homage to the popular game Angry Birds.

Anyway, the @StudioHitori complained [J] that its iPhone version was rejected by Apple. So for now, this app works on Android version 2.0.1 or higher. The app itself is for free.

Tags: Japan by Akky Akimoto
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Fatboy Slim Experiences How Nico Nico Douga Overlay Comment Works

Popular English DJ Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim appeared on a special program on Nico Nico Namahousou(Nico Nico Live) [J], user generated videocast service on June 2 to promote Big Beach Festival'11 Chiba, which was also aired on Nico Nico Namahousou.

Nico Nico News reported [J] how he enjoyed real time communication with his Japanese fans on Nico Nico comment system. He answered questions flown over self check monitor, suddenly shout meaningless "sausages!" and saw how quick some viewers reacted and typed it.

Here is his message in May for the festival,