2010-01
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[Update: recording now available] January 20: Ustream discussion panel "Social Media Predictions 2010"
Quick announcement for a Ustream event that’s going to take place this week: Tokyo-based Beat Communication, widely regarded as being one of the pioneers in the Japanese social network …
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Spysee's web campaign: Collect 1 million Yen for Japan's Paralympics ski team
Here’s a news item of a different kind: The next Winter Paralympics, basically the Winter Olympics for athletes with physical and visual disabilities, will be held in Vancouver between March 12 …
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Event Wrap-up: Asiajin Readers Meet-up In Taipei
Asiajin held a readers meet-up event in Taipei on Sunday. Several Taiwanese geeks reading our blog came together for networking, and exchanged their perspective on the tech scenes of Taiwan and Japan …
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Tokyo No Pants Train Ride Calls Police Cordon
By Asahi Shimbun’s report [J], I came to know this Japan version of the famous internet prank had been planned. It is not a subway but a JR Yamate line train, on January 10th Sugamo police …
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Gree To Open Social Application Platform
The largest mobile social network Gree announced [J] that their new GREE Connect (tentative name) platform starting this April 2010. Mixi Appli, an OpenSocial specification based API was officially …
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Asiajin Meets Chili: Akky Presents Japanese Tech Scene At Taipei's Tech Community
Nii-hao, Taiwan! Asiajin co-founder Akky Akimoto is now in Taiwan. On Saturday, he was invited to have a presentation on Japanese social media and tech scenes at Chili Ideas Party, a serial meet-up …
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Update: Asiajin To Host Readers Meet-up in Taipei This Weekend
Asiajin co-founder Akky Akimoto(@akky), Shunichi Arai(@araipiyo) and author Masaru Ikeda(@masaruikeda) are now staying in Taipei and will have a readers meet-up event on Sunday. If you’re …
