Yokoku.in is a very controversial web site made by Yano Satoru of satoru.net. What is this? I must made an explanation about the background before introducing the site. 8th June, a mass murder was occurred in Akihabara. One man killed 7 people and injured 10 people. He had written a message in Internet bulletin board… Continue reading Yokoku.in – a crime warning aggregation site
Author: Shunichi Arai
Netprint turns the nearest convenience store to your printer
Netprint is an Internet priting service which enables users to print their files through Internet to Seven-eleven convenience store’s printer. Fuji Xerox is providing the service nationwide in Japan. You can upload a PDF, Excel, JPEG files to their server. They will give you a number. Then you can get a print by entering a… Continue reading Netprint turns the nearest convenience store to your printer
E27 Unconference Singapore 2008
E27 Singapore, An entrepreneur group, will be organizing the 5th Unconference on the 12th of July 2008. The event has a startup demo session and a break out (unconference style discussion) session. Also there are demo booths of startup companies too. It seems that startups like yum.sg (gourmet guide), eteract (online dating side) are going… Continue reading E27 Unconference Singapore 2008
RubyKaigi will be held this week
The Japan’s biggest conference on Ruby, RubyKaigi 2008, is going to be held on 20th(fri)-22nd(sun) June. Tickets for main sessions are already sold out. However you can attend to sub-sessions, poster sessions without ticket. I will give a talk as a part of sub-session on 21st (in Japanese).
Cruise & Atlas, a very futuristic working chair with a desk
Ofcourse, you know about Aaron chair of Harman Miller. However, you probably haven’t heard about Cruise & Atlas from Okamura, a Japanese office furniture maker. Cruise & Atlas is a set of chair and desk, which is consisting a mutually dependant pair. It has a really futuristic appearance. It looks like a chair from a… Continue reading Cruise & Atlas, a very futuristic working chair with a desk
OpenWeb.Asia
Gang Lu, a director of Netvibes Asia, launched a blog aggregation site called OpenWeb.Asia. And we are a proud member of the network. “The OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup is a network of premium blogs focus on Asian Web industry.” OpenWeb.Asia provides an OPML file which can be easily imported to feed readers to subscribe the feeds of… Continue reading OpenWeb.Asia
YAPC::Asia 2008 report: day 2
I’m impressed by a session called ‘memcached in mixi’ by Masahiro Nagano. He detailedly explained their effort to scale the Japan’s biggest SNS with memcached. They are using more than 100 dedicated memcached servers for caching. All of machines has 4GB of memory with Pentium 4 or D, which are too weak for database servers… Continue reading YAPC::Asia 2008 report: day 2
YAPC::Asia financial report
Hiroyuki Oyama gave a talk on YAPC::Asia financial report (in JP). I’d like to show the numbers and key factors in this article to help who try to organise a big event. YAPC::Asia handles 500+ attendees with all volunteer organising committee. In 2006 and 2007, they used Lawson (convenience store chain) ticket system to sell… Continue reading YAPC::Asia financial report
YAPC::Asia 2008 report: day 1
Today, YAPC::Asia 2008, one of the biggest Perl conference, had been held at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Serkan, Akky, and I attended the conference. This time, YAPC has three parallel sessions during two days, and number of registered attendees reached 500. With a help of abundant sponsorship from Perl user companies such as Recruit,… Continue reading YAPC::Asia 2008 report: day 1
Actions against Japanese Internet censorship
The Japanese government is planning to legislate regulations of “harmful” Internet content. Now, Liberal Democratic Party‘s Sanae Takaichi is preparing to pass an Internet censorship law. Now several groups are acting against the legislation. Microsoft, Yahoo, Rakuten, DeNA, and NetStar made an official statement against the legislation. One of the leaders of this action is… Continue reading Actions against Japanese Internet censorship