Masaru IKEDA
Articles by Masaru IKEDA
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Ready For: A New Crowd Fundraising Site For Artists Launches
Ohma Inc., a Tokyo-based tech start-up known for semantic web-based who’s-who app Spysee[J], released a Kickstarter-like crowd fundraising service called “ReadyFor?[J]” this week. …
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TwitVoice Allows You To Leave Instant Voice Messages Via Twitter
Tokyo-based tech start-up Pido[J] unveiled the company’s first iPhone app today, which is called TwitVoice[J] and allows you to leave your voice messages via Twitter. It’s a free app, and …
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Tokyo's Start-ups To Hold A Presentation Night In Seoul
In the beginning of next month, four tech start-ups from Tokyo and two start-ups from Seoul will jointly hold a presentation evening event in South Korea’s capital, which is called Asia Startup …
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After The Quake: Social Apps And Web Trends To Help Disaster Relief Efforts
Here’s a follow-up to my previous posts covering the grassroots movements to relieve the devastated areas. GPS-Enabled Map of Scheduled Blackouts: A team of web app developers Boss Yooann, …
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After The Quake: A Variety Of Web Mashups Collecting Wisdom Of Crowds
Following my previous story on the grassroots movements, here are some of another developments. Car Activities in Tohoku on Google Map: Google, Honda and Pioneer visualize car activities in Tohoku by …
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Who's Free And Tonchidot To Hold Fundraising Party At SXSW To Help Relief Efforts
A cross-post to Asiajin and Startup Dating. SXSW is currently taking place in Austin, Texas. Asiajin contributors Serkan Toto and Paul Papadimitriou are there for moderating panels on Japanese web …
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After The Quake: Grassroots Movements In The Japanese Internet Community
A massive earthquake attacked the north-eastern part of Japan on Friday afternoon. Many JSDF troops, fire fighters and foreign rescue workers have been deployed in devastated areas, their physical …
