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special #003 – TechCrunch Camp Japan Interviews

hiro — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:22:51 +0000

I joined the TechCrunch Camp at Tokyo Japan and interviewed to CEO of Tonchdot Mr.IGUCHI who produced the Sekai Camera. His concept called ‘SOLAR’ was impressive. Please watch the video to hear what it is.

Not only that, I saw some cool demos at the camp and here are links I interviewed.

Mind Bucket (English)
Qlippy (English)
Price Map (English, Only for iPad)
V-Sido (English)

Unfortunately I couldn’t visit all booths but here are links of all companies joined. Most of companies, web sites speak Japanese only though.

TUVALU VISUALIZATION PROJECT (English)
AdMaker (English)
ChanTo.me (English)
Piku (Japanese Only)
KAUPON (Japanese Only)
MYTRACKs (Japanese Only)
lalacolle (Japanese Only)
SyncPlus (Japanese Only)
Talknote (Japanese Only)
iQON (Japanese Only)
Ramblin (Japanese Only)
twireco (Japanese Only)
TAKUTOMO (Japanese Only)
Creads (Japanese Only)
proovy (Japanese Only)
SekaiNow (Japanese Only)
Insatsu Hikaku (Japanese Only)
fluxflex (Web site unavailable)

episode 014 – Introduction to Rakuten, Japan’s No.1 online shopping mall

ianc — Thu, 27 May 2010 06:26:07 +0000

In this episode, we take a different approach, showing you a Japanese site or service intermixed with our usual video stream. The subject of this episode is Rakuten, Japan’s Number 1 online shopping mall. We will should you the ins and outs, what makes Rakuten special, Rakuten’s English site and even show you the CEO’s twitter feed.

We hope you enjoy it and if you do and would like to see more of these guides to Japanese sites and services please leave a comment below.

special #002 – Interview with Patrick McKenzie

ianc — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:16:53 +0000

Patrick came to Osaka to give a cracking good presentation entitled “Improving Websites Design Through Use of Statistics” to the Design Matters group at the Apple Store. We invited him round to messaliberty for lunch and a quickie interview.

Patrick is famous for many reasons, including blogging about his experiences of setting up a mISV (micro Independant Software Vendor) on a shoestring budget (and as a side job). I think his initial budget was 60 USD. He is kind enough not only to share his experiences but also advice and even code. His side-business was so successful that he could quit his day job and is now working on his second project as well as touring around giving speeches. Next stop is Germany I believe.

Here are some of the links mentioned in the interview:

And here is the interview with Patrick in Japanese mentioned at the end.

special #001

ianc — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:27:32 +0000

As promised here is some video footage of the DenDen Town Street Festa. See if you can spot some of the members of messaliberty in the shots. Video was shot and remixed by Yassan and the music is: 外山ハウスBGM[HOUSE] . Tell us what you thought of the Street Festa Photos and Video in the comments.