By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
After not being able to attend last month, I went to the Mobile Monday Tokyo event last…Monday. This time the event took place in a lounge-like club space in Akasaka. Unfortunately, I was too late for Sadayuki Matsumoto’s presentation on trunc, a personalized homepage service focused on...
Here is an article Erhan Erdoğan wrote about me and my activities here in the Japanese IT and web industry. His “Webrazzi” is Turkey’s leading web industry blog. The article is written in Turkish (I am German but my parents hail from Turkey, I speak the language and I love that...
My colleague Greg Kumparak is in Japan for a few weeks and -of course- I had to meet him here in Tokyo, which I did today (on very short notice!). Greg is the editor-in chief of MobileCrunch, a relatively new -yet very successful- blog belonging to the Techcrunch network. MobileCrunch covers...
Following the story about Quillpill (a microblogging tool for writers and readers of fiction), my second article on Techcrunch is online now. The Japanese translation of the second TC article is here. Topic: Nico Nico Douga, Japan’s answer to Youtube! Please remember to take a look at my...
Offered by Dwango, Nico Nico Douga is, without a doubt, the craziest video platform in Japan. It’s competing with YouTube in Japan and actually generates revenue. But what exactly is Nico Nico Douga: One of the most spectacular success stories in the Asian web market is currently being...
On Wednesday, I took part in the Venture Beat Networking Party again. Japan’s Mixi in human form, Hisashi “Sam” Katsuya from IBM Japan, was kind enough to invite me (and believe me, this man knows EVERYONE in the Japanese IT world). The “closed” event (invitation only)...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry