By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
My 3rd article on Techcrunch is now online, this time I blogged Mixi. The Japanese version can be found here on Techcrunch Japan, the French version on Techcrunch France. A blogger published an unofficial Chinese translation. Although the company is worth $1 billion, almost no one outside Japan...
Mixi is a made-in-Japan phenomenon: how did they acquire millions of users, go IPO and keep down Facebook in Japan? Japan’s biggest social network is called Mixi, launched in February 2004 by the company of the same name. Drawing in one in five web users in the country, Mixi now boasts over 15...
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...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry