By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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)...
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The Japanese version (on Techcrunch Japan) can be read here.
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The 4th Ultrasupertube event, organized by Tokyo-based creative agency, UltraSuperNew, took place last Wednesday in Azabu, Tokyo. The event’s concept:Submit a couple of cool videos you would like to see projected on the big screen during the event at the venue (a place called SuperDeluxe)...
The main trigger for my establishing this blog last year was the ridiculously small amount of information I could get about the Japanese web industry in English at that time. Asiajin (which I am co-authoring) followed suit and improved the situation dramatically, now boasting over 1.800 RSS readers...
Since today, Japan-based web companies are welcome to send in applications for the 4th Mash-up awards jointly organized by Sun Microsystems Japan and Recruit. The first price is 10 million Yen (approximately $10,000). Applications will be accepted until September 16th, while the awards show will be...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry