{"id":161,"date":"2008-02-28T08:46:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T23:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/report-asiajin-meeting-1-part-one\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T08:46:37","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T23:46:37","slug":"report-asiajin-meeting-1-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/report-asiajin-meeting-1-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Asiajin Meeting #1 (part one)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Asiajin Meeting #1<\/a> took place this Tuesday in Akasaka\/Tokyo. Courtesy of Cybozu Labs<\/a>, the event was free of charge.
\nAsiajin Meeting Tokyo #1 signboard
\nAbout 30 people participated while the number of people viewing the live broadcasting (done by Andrew Shuttleworth<\/a>) peaked at 25. We will see to it that we announce the livecast earlier next time, especially for our readers from outside Japan. Also we apologize we had to turn down a lot of Asiajin readers interested in joining due to limited capacity.
\nA total of seven entrepreneurs, journalists and engineers held presentations. One person cancelled because of illness. All of the Japanese presenters spoke in English sharing the meeting’s underlying concept of intercultural communication.
\n\"012.JPG\"<\/a>
\n<\/a>
\n\"033.JPG\"<\/a>
\n\"020.JPG\"<\/a>
\nWe at Asiajin think they all did amazingly well so we can say the Asiajin Meeting #1 was a great success!
\nPart one of this report focuses on the first three presentations:<\/p>\n

Presentation No. 1
\n(“Who will be the target consumers in the Japanese mobile content market?”)
\n<\/h3>\n

The presenter would like to stay anonymous. She spoke about mobile content services in Japan, user demographics and how consumers in this country prefer the mobile phone over the PC. The presentation was very interesting but is unfortunately off-the-record.<\/p>\n

Presentation No. 2
\n(“Natalie – English version”)
\n<\/h3>\n

Masahiko Tachizono, director at Natasha,Inc.<\/a>, attended to introduce his company’s Natalie<\/a> service. Essentially, “Natalie” is a J-Pop news service. Masahiko said between 20 to 30 fresh articles from the J-Pop world are put online everyday.
\nReaders are able to customize the service so that they view news items suitable to their tastes.
\nNatalie also connects with Twitter<\/a> (which is very popular in Japan<\/a>). When a user twitters a comment on a Natalie news article, the service retrieves the message and adds it as a comment on the web site if it includes the corresponding URL. Natalie offers a similar solution with the Japanese social bookmarking platform Hatena<\/a>. I think this is a very clever idea!
\nThere is also a mobile version available. Moreover, Natalie offers a widget for bloggers. A Facebook application and even an optimized version for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch are also planned.
\nAfter his presentation, Masahiko told me the English version of Natalie for J-Pop fans outside Japan will be available soon.<\/p>\n

<\/object><\/p>\n
\"SlideShare\"\/<\/a> | View<\/a> | Upload your own<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Presentation No. 3
\n(“Project 1,000 speakers”)
\n<\/h3>\n

amachang<\/a>, a well respected JavaScript specialist working for Cybozu Labs spoke about a private project of his, named 1,000 speakers<\/a> (Ustream channel<\/a>). I agree with his statement that a lot of (not all) Japanese IT professionals are too shy and modest to present themselves to other people if they can’t remain anonymous.
\nThis observation was amachang’s main motivation to hold a monthly conference which he labelled “1,000 speakers”. His aim is to have 1,000 people present their work and discuss openly until the project is finished. This is a really great idea!
\namachang said speaking publicly helps young developers in particular to raise awareness of their work and improve their visibility in Japan’s huge IT community.<\/p>\n

\nPlease read the second part of the Asiajin Meeting #1 report<\/a> for coverage of the remaining presentations and a conclusion.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Asiajin Meeting #1 took place this Tuesday in Akasaka\/Tokyo. Courtesy of Cybozu Labs, the event was free of charge. About 30 people participated while the number of people viewing the live broadcasting (done by Andrew Shuttleworth) peaked at 25. We will see to it that we announce the livecast earlier next time, especially for… Continue reading Report: Asiajin Meeting #1 (part one)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[5,8,11,17],"tags":[317,818,882,1103,1779,1791,2388,2533,2949,2975,3718],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-community","category-event-report","category-japan","tag-asiajin-meeting","tag-cybozu-labs","tag-demographics","tag-event-report","tag-j-pop","tag-japan","tag-mobile-internet","tag-natalie","tag-presentation","tag-project-1000-speakers","tag-tokyo","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}