{"id":10489,"date":"2010-10-02T20:49:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T11:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=10489"},"modified":"2010-10-02T20:49:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T11:49:22","slug":"youroom-gemediar-cacoo-demos-at-antennaasia-fukuoka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/youroom-gemediar-cacoo-demos-at-antennaasia-fukuoka\/","title":{"rendered":"YouRoom, Gemediar &#038; Cacoo Demos at AntennaAsia Fukuoka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday night, <a href=\"http:\/\/antennaasia.com\/\">AntennaAsia<\/a> kicked off a 5-day tech event marathon in Fukuoka, followed by <a href=\"http:\/\/eneinfo.musicstyle.tv\/\">Energy Informatic<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npo-aip.or.jp\/event\/cloud3days\/\">AIP Cloud 3DAYS<\/a> this weekend. AntennaAsia vol. 1 showcased two Fukuoka startups and one from Tokyo.<\/p>\n<h3>YouRoom<\/h3>\n<p>First up, <a href=\"http:\/\/kuranuki.sonicgarden.jp\/\">Yoshihito Kuranuki<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kuranuki\">@kuranuki<\/a>) from SonicGarden demoed <a href=\"http:\/\/youroom.in\/\">YouRoom<\/a>, a discussion\/communication tool aimed for project teams and private groups. YouRoom&#8217;s interface is modeled after Twitter. Timeline view stacked with short messages just like tweets helps flat real-time communication, unlike long-winded mailing list messages.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"youRoom intoroduction\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pn87ztKODHk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nYouRoom is available as a free service for now. Kuranuki said that they are planning to add an enterprise account option, which provides more features for business use such as an official audit log report.<\/p>\n<h3>Gemediar<\/h3>\n<p>Kota Sakoda (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cohtan\">@cohtan<\/a>) from <a href=\"http:\/\/pocketbox.asia\/\">Pocketbox<\/a> team presented <a href=\"http:\/\/gemediar.com\/\">Gemediar<\/a>. Gemediar is a B2B video transcoding platform for sharing videos among various mobile carriers \/ devices.<br \/>\nGemediar is best suited for sending videos to someone who is unable to view it in the same format because of cross-carrier incompatibility. Sakoda said they hope to completely eliminate the hurdles and confusion around sharing videos, especially among non-techie users. By offering a stable and affordable video engine, Gemediar helps other startups and small teams host videos without running into headaches associated with different formats.<br \/>\nCurrent pricing starts at &yen;9,800\/month with 5GB file storage. According to Sakoda, this translates to 15-50GB net space in comparison to other services with multi-carrier support, thanks to their optimization technology.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/gemediar-demo-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"gemediar-demo\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10499\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Cacoo<\/h3>\n<p>Toshiki Agata (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/agata\">@agata<\/a>) from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nulab.co.jp\/\">Nulab<\/a> wrapped up the demo sessions by announcing the brand-new paid upgrade for <a href=\"http:\/\/cacoo.com\/\">Cacoo<\/a>, their real-time collaborative drawing tool (for more info on the product itself and its past development, <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/page\/?s=cacoo\">check out previous coverage on Asiajin<\/a>). He said Cacoo has been steadily gaining both domestic and international users since its beta launch in November 2009. Currently 60% of Cacoo users are using the service outside of Japan. The United States and France are the top countries accessing Cacco besides Japan.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10491\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10491\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/cacoo-antennaasia-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cacoo-antennaasia\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10491\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Distribution of Cacoo's user location (green = Japan \/ blue = others)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nTo grow Cacco into a profitable service, they are planning to aggressively expand their general userbase. The immediate action plan is to expose Cacoo to an existing large pool of users; they will be developing extensions for Google Apps Marketplace, Chrome Web Store, and a Facebook App. Agata added that he&#8217;d be happy to share their experiences and tips with startups looking for mentors in expanding their service beyond Japanese users.<br \/>\nAntennaAsia organizers said they modeled this event after <a href=\"http:\/\/sfnewtech.com\/\">SFNewTech<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/svnewtech\/\">SVNewTech<\/a> meetups. They want to continue this series of events to foster a similar community in Fukuoka by providing a place where startups can share their ideas and progress. Study meetups (Benkyokai) has became quite common in various local tech communities around Japan &#8211; there is a potential for this kind of demo\/networking events to spread widely and connect startups, users, business owners, and investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday night, AntennaAsia kicked off a 5-day tech event marathon in Fukuoka, followed by Energy Informatic and AIP Cloud 3DAYS this weekend. AntennaAsia vol. 1 showcased two Fukuoka startups and one from Tokyo. YouRoom First up, Yoshihito Kuranuki (@kuranuki) from SonicGarden demoed YouRoom, a discussion\/communication tool aimed for project teams and private groups. YouRoom&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/youroom-gemediar-cacoo-demos-at-antennaasia-fukuoka\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">YouRoom, Gemediar &#038; Cacoo Demos at AntennaAsia Fukuoka<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[248,543,1278,1334,4220],"class_list":["post-10489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-report","tag-antennaasia","tag-cacoo","tag-fukuoka","tag-gemediar","tag-youroom","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}