It looks like Mixi’s popularity and IPO success has budding entrepreneurs going head-over-heels trying to snap up any remaining market. An invitation to Asoboo (which means “let’s play” in Japanese) just passed my inbox so I created an account and gave it a quick run. There’s a clear web2.0-y flavor to it, [...]
I was going to write a post on the state of Web 2.0 in Japan for CenterNetworks, but after poking around the web I found two fairly decent entries already out there, so I will briefly summarize and integrate a few words of my own. First, some background on the two sites: PingMap is a [...]
Digital Garage along with Joi Ito hosted a conference titled The New Context covering the future of web 2.0. I was returning from San Francisco the night of the first day so I unfortunately missed Lawrence Lessig’s keynote, but Gen kindly scored me a free ticket for all of day 2 (thanks Gen!) so [...]
I’m finding it remarkable that almost nobody in Silicon Valley followed the Mixi IPO, let alone knew who or what Mixi is. Here’s an SNS at $2B that makes MySpace look like it sold too early and Facebook actually seem reasonable. Okay, so Japan may be in its own little internet bubble, but as [...]
(Day 1, if you haven’t read it yet.)
What’s Next For Web Apps: Building the Next Flickr
The second day started off with Michael Arrington of TechCrunch zipping through a host of up-and-coming as well as going-down-in-flames startups, and discussing their strengths and weaknesses. He started off his presentation with a catchy anecdote – that PlentyOfFish [...]
I realize there’s already a plethora of examples and commentary regarding “Web2.0″ technologies and mindset, but I gave a short presentation this evening on three points which I believe are key to developing a competitive web-based service. In fact the service need not be web-based, as Sony – being first and foremost a [...]
I gotta say, this Flickr thing is quite the service. After doing a fresh install of Tiger on my personal server box, I decided to give it a try. The idea of installing the open source project Gallery just didn’t appeal to me after hearing my friend Paul had his gallery hacked last [...]
Those behind a corporate firewall yet want to try out Google’s new “talk” service using iChat may find this link helpful. Basically iChat currently doesn’t let you configure proxy settings for its Jabber client, so you have to create a tunnel. Enjoy!
Other people will do cool things if you let them. Books will be published, and tutorials will get written. The internet has turned customers into contributers and producers.
As umair points out
like it or not, we now live in a world where plasticity drives value. Grey markets arbitrage digital media property rights away with [...]
Music Plasma. Very cool.
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