CodeRepos is a software repository space where many top-level Japanese web programmers contribute and share their source code. Kazuhiro OOSAWA, aka Yappo, is known well by his privately running Japanese search engine iYappo for more than decade, a famous hacker among Japanese Perl community, also called “Shogun” by some geeks. On his blog on August… Continue reading Project CodeRepos – All Our Code Are Belong To Us
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Jogging in Tokyo virtually
Tokyo-Jogging is an open source project lead by Ryo Katsuma, which makes your Macintosh (can be PC, too) and Wii controller Wiimote be a virtual roomrunner. Your Wii controller will be pedometer, sending your steps to Mac/PC to draw your current location over Google Maps, so that you can run any Google Street View supported… Continue reading Jogging in Tokyo virtually
So-net M3 – a community site for doctors
So-net M3 (TSE:2413) is a very profitable and unique company which is providing a community site ‘m3.com’ exclusively for medical doctors. Doctors are restricted by confidentiality, so they cannot use typical community sites to share information about their professional life or skills. M3 provides them with a bulletin board service. M3 has 390,000 registered medical… Continue reading So-net M3 – a community site for doctors
EmoHeart: Japanese universities develop solution to visualize “human” emotions in virtual worlds
One major problem that leads to a low level of identification with avatars in virtual worlds is the lack of visualization of emotions carried in typed messages (through which users usually communicate). In Second Life, for example, users can choose between a number of emotions to be displayed but have to time them manually, disconnecting… Continue reading EmoHeart: Japanese universities develop solution to visualize “human” emotions in virtual worlds
au BOX: KDDI, Motorola and Opera intro new multimedia terminal in Japan
Yesterday KDDI, one of Japan’s many telecommunications powerhouses, held a press conference in Tokyo to present the so-called “au BOX” to the general public for the first time. “au” is KDDI’s cell phone brand and the reason why the company can call itself Japan’s second biggest cell phone carrier. Based on the Motorola VIP1830 IP,… Continue reading au BOX: KDDI, Motorola and Opera intro new multimedia terminal in Japan
A report of ESPer2008 conference
ESPer2008 conference has been held with 100+ attendees in Shinagawa, Tokyo at 14th September 2008. ESPer is a conference held by alumni of the Mitoh software grant (Exploratory Software Project) (in English). The Mitoh is a grant by Japanese government which is given to individual software developers. There are around thousand Mitoh alumni in Japan… Continue reading A report of ESPer2008 conference
From TechCrunch50 in San Francisco: Japanese company Rinen presents Opentrace
I am at the TechCrunch 50 conference in San Francisco right now (you might know I am a writer for the TechCrunch network). The Wifi was off so my report is a little late, sorry: Yesterday, a start-up from Tokyo called Rinen presented their product, Opentrace, to the 1,700-people crowd. Rinen has neither a company… Continue reading From TechCrunch50 in San Francisco: Japanese company Rinen presents Opentrace
Yahoo Japan to Launch Interest Matching Advertising Technology
Last week I attended an information event for Bloggers organized by Agile Media hosted at Yahoo! Japan’s offices in Tokyo Midtown. The theme of the event was Yahoo Japan’s soon to be launched ‘Interest Match‘ [J] advertising service. The technology displays adverts based on previous pages people have viewed and page referrer information in addition… Continue reading Yahoo Japan to Launch Interest Matching Advertising Technology
Cyber-Maid Augmented Reality
Geisha Tokyo Entertainment Inc. announced a new entertainment software title using augmented reality technology named “Dennoh Figure ARis“(Cyber Figure Alice) which will be on sale this autumn (2008). The package will come with two cyber-cubes and two cyber-sticks. You set up your webcam, and by putting the cyber-cube on your desk, a cyber-maid is displayed… Continue reading Cyber-Maid Augmented Reality
Japanese super train Shinkansen with full Wi-Fi between Tokyo and Osaka
On Thursday railway operator JR Toukai announced they will offer full Wi-Fi on the N700 Shinkansen bullet train between Tokyo and Osaka. This route is the most important one in Japan. Travellers will be able to access the web in all seats for the first time in Japan. The Wi-Fi connection is even supposed to… Continue reading Japanese super train Shinkansen with full Wi-Fi between Tokyo and Osaka