{"id":5277,"date":"2009-08-20T10:33:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T01:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=5277"},"modified":"2009-08-20T10:33:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T01:33:41","slug":"mixi-ex-cto-helps-singaporean-mobile-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/mixi-ex-cto-helps-singaporean-mobile-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixi ex-CTO Helps Singaporean Mobile Startup Xsago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/batara-eto1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/batara-eto1.gif\" alt=\"batara-eto1\" title=\"batara-eto1\" width=\"193\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5281\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBatara Eto, who suggested to make <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/20\/mixi-japans-social-network\/\">a Japanese social network<\/a> to his boss in late 2003 and programmed Japan&#8217;s biggest social network Mixi, let the company (E-mercury) to change their primary business and rename (to &#8220;Mixi&#8221;, of course) with the huge success, then <a href=\"http:\/\/bb.watch.impress.co.jp\/cda\/news\/20464.html\">left his CTO job in 2007<\/a> [J], <a href=\"http:\/\/sgentrepreneurs.com\/news-stop\/2009\/08\/19\/xsago-appoints-ex-cto-of-mixi-as-technical-advisor\/#\">is reported<\/a> to invest to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xsago.com\/\">Xsago<\/a>, Singapore-based mobile application company. He also assumes a post as Technical Advisor .<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/xsago-logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/xsago-logo.gif\" alt=\"xsago-logo\" title=\"xsago-logo\" width=\"197\" height=\"52\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5279\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKnown by his success story with Mixi and his advocacy for open source, he was rumoured to run <a href=\"http:\/\/etolabo.com\/\">his own small tech start-up<\/a> to develop something, which was recently disclosed as <a href=\"http:\/\/ficia.com\/\">a new online photo sharing site Ficia<\/a>, which is under private beta. I tried Ficia and it seems to aim better photo sharing experience, such like what Gmail did against Hotmail to Flickr, by using plenty of latest web technology. Let&#8217;s hope Ficia is not fishy \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ficia.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ficia_white.png\" alt=\"ficia_white\" title=\"ficia_white\" width=\"181\" height=\"92\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5288\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nXsago&#8217;s mobile application <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foyage.com\/\">Foyage<\/a> is explained as a location based utility tool to give you shop information around you, currently covers Singapore and Indonesia, where Eto originally came from.<br \/>\n(Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japaneseclass.jp\/\">beeant<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h3>See Also:<\/p>\n<h3>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/v.japan.cnet.com\/column\/geek\/story\/0,3800077705,20351008,00.htm\">Batara Eto&#8217;s interview when he led Mixi development<\/a> [J]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/news\/media\/story\/0,2000056023,20396806,00.htm\">Interview about his new start-up Etolabo and its first service Ficia<\/a> [J]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batara Eto, who suggested to make a Japanese social network to his boss in late 2003 and programmed Japan&#8217;s biggest social network Mixi, let the company (E-mercury) to change their primary business and rename (to &#8220;Mixi&#8221;, of course) with the huge success, then left his CTO job in 2007 [J], is reported to invest to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/mixi-ex-cto-helps-singaporean-mobile-startup\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mixi ex-CTO Helps Singaporean Mobile Startup Xsago<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[17,24,30],"tags":[224,387,1670,1732,2342,2376,3354],"class_list":["post-5277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","category-singapore","tag-android","tag-batara-eto","tag-indonesia","tag-iphone","tag-mixi","tag-mobile","tag-singapore","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}