How to recover WordPress posts from NewsBlur

This post is not related with Asia/Japan IT news. When I noticed that there were no latest backups kept on any cloud services by combined mistakes, Asiajin’s past articles since January 2014 seemed to be lost for good. My RSS reader might keep the latest 10 or so, but I was not so eager to… Continue reading How to recover WordPress posts from NewsBlur

Lost articles are back

We had lost recent articles, but luckily could salvage most of the once-lost-ones from an RSS reader service. There could be some glitches on the posts from January 2014 to September 2015. Your feedback would fix them. Thanks for the tip @LonelyBob ! @Asiajin @akky https://t.co/B2OsjAglhs you can salvage your lost posts from #Newsblur that… Continue reading Lost articles are back

Lost articles

By an unfortunate accident, the former Asiajin server crashed and the data lost. More bad thing was that the backup files was cleaned too much recently due to capacity issues on my other server. The posts since January 2014 seemed lost. I will keep trying to salvage, but probably those posts are available only titles… Continue reading Lost articles

Japan`s First Social Media Focused Competition Kicks Off

KOBE, September 16, 2012. After successfully holding the 2011 Marketing Competition Japan (MCJ), in which 24 teams from 12 different universities participated, the MCJ committee officially launched MCJ 2012. The organizers of the event expect more than 150 teams from 30 different universities (mostly from Global COE institutions) to compete in MCJ 2012.The competition will… Continue reading Japan`s First Social Media Focused Competition Kicks Off

Asiajin Spanish, Japanese And 4 Year Anniversary

We are celebrating 4 year anniversary today! We launched Asiajin officially on December 12, 2007, 4 years ago. Here I announce two new Asiajin blogs, Spanish version and Japanese version. The new Spanish version, Asiajin en Español is supported by Tokyo-based ShakingAsia, whose business is bringing oversea services into Japan and Asia. If you are… Continue reading Asiajin Spanish, Japanese And 4 Year Anniversary

7th Mashup Awards “Ninja Challenge” To Take Place In Palo Alto October 19 (Call For Presentations Ends October 12)

The so-called Mashup Awards have a relatively long history in Japan’s web world, with the 7th event scheduled to be held in Japan next month (here‘s Asiajin’s report on the last event from December 2010). It has been organized in Japan every year so far, but now the Mashup Awards 7 (MA7) event is coming… Continue reading 7th Mashup Awards “Ninja Challenge” To Take Place In Palo Alto October 19 (Call For Presentations Ends October 12)

Asiajin Meetup Kuala Lumpur Aug 17, Wednesday

[Update] Meetup has been changed to afternoon at Suria KLCC. Two local Asiajin readers who contacted me preferred during daytime. Asiajin’s chief editor Akky AKIMOTO is visiting Singapore/Malaysia for 3 weeks, that is mainly for family vacation but thinks having a chat with local Asiajin readers who are interested in. This Wednesday, starting around 19:00… Continue reading Asiajin Meetup Kuala Lumpur Aug 17, Wednesday

Meet Japanese Start-ups on Fri and Sat in Singapore

Picture courtesy: Flickr user edwin.11 (used under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license) 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… Continue reading Meet Japanese Start-ups on Fri and Sat in Singapore

Ask Asiajin Authors

We have just switched to Disqus comment system from another comments service. So this post also serves as new comment system test. All registered users and Disqus users can write comments. Tentatively, now guest users can post comments, too. Please help our test by leaving any general questions, requests, suggestions, applauds, complaints, whining, etc. for… Continue reading Ask Asiajin Authors