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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 to March 21, 2010. Japan is sending a few different teams, and one of them, the cross-country ski team, is now counting on the… Continue reading Spysee’s web campaign: Collect 1 million Yen for Japan’s Paralympics ski team

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 with Asiajin contributors Akky, Shunichi and Masaru. Here’s a summary of what we were talking about and what we’ve learned. Micro-blog services such… Continue reading Event Wrap-up: Asiajin Readers Meet-up In Taipei

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 interested in attending it, please subscribe to this Plancast link to keep you update with the latest information. (We’ll keep this blog post update as well.) 大きな地図で見る Venue: Mr.… Continue reading Update: Asiajin To Host Readers Meet-up in Taipei This Weekend

Asiajin iPhone/iPod Touch Reader App Debuts

Hong Kong-, Tokyo-, Silicon Valley- and London-based tech start-up MotherApp has kindly developed the iPhone/iPod Touch app which allows Asiajin readers to get the latest news more easily on their palms. The company specializes in developing apps for multiple mobile platforms only by simple and single development process, and won the first prize of the… Continue reading Asiajin iPhone/iPod Touch Reader App Debuts

Asiajin’s 1st Anniversary

Our official launch date, when Arai and I announced Asiajin’s existence to the world, was December 12th, 2007. Yes, we have reached our first anniversary! Since the launch, we have welcomed many contributors – writers, proofreaders, advisors, commenters and of course, our great readers. I must give special thanks to Arai, and to Serkan Toto,… Continue reading Asiajin’s 1st Anniversary

Open Web Asia ’08 conference announced

Open Web Asia ’08 conference has been announced to be held on 14th October 2008 in Seoul, Korea. 後ろに日本語の案内があります。 — “The first pan-Asia web technology event bringing together executives, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists from throughout Asia” October 14 2008, Sheraton Grande Walkerhill, Seoul, Korea in association with the 9th World Knowledge Forum Open Web Asia… Continue reading Open Web Asia ’08 conference announced

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

Asiajin Meeting Tokyo #1 tonight

We have sent e-mail to people who had applied for the first Asiajin Meeting Tokyo at Cybozu Labs, Tameike-San’nou, Minatoku. Please check your e-mail for the event detail. If you need to salvage your spam folder, our sender domain of the mail is, as you might guess, “asiajin.com”. We are sorry for people to whom… Continue reading Asiajin Meeting Tokyo #1 tonight

Asiajin Meeting Tokyo #1 on 26th(Tue), Feb.

We are going to hold our first readers’ meeting on 2/26 (Tue) night. Asiajin Meeting Tokyo The meeting will include 5-6 English presentations about 1. popular net services in Japan, or 2. their project/product. Those presentation will be in English by Japanese web entrepreneurs/developers, all of whom heavily use Japanese net services everyday at their… Continue reading Asiajin Meeting Tokyo #1 on 26th(Tue), Feb.