By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
I met Facebook‘s co-founder and former CTO (until May this year) Adam D’Angelo yesterday in Tokyo. Adam came to Japan on a private trip. He was “guided” by his long-time friend Matyas who recently graduated from the California Institute of Technology and can speak perfect...
OK, not of all these people were VCs. Some of them are also presidents of web companies. And we were not really in the woods but in the amazingly beautiful Fukui prefecture, hometown of Taisuke Fukuno. All this under the umbrella of Venture Beat, to my knowledge the most influential network in...
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...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry