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Interview for Japan Clicks on iTV-Asia.com

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

I was fortunate to join in an interview on Japan Clicks, an online show on iTV-asia.com. In the interview, I spoke about what I’ve been doing in Japan for 14 years and some of my experiences in the web industry. I compared the recession in 2002 with the current financial meltdown from a digital point [...]

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Joi Ito Speaks to MBA Students on Open Innovation

Monday, January 11, 2010

On January 9th, 2010, I was one of the fortunate McGill MBA Japan students to hear entrepreneur, venture capitalist and activist Joi Ito talk about “open innovation”. He spoke eloquently on a variety of topics including attitudes in venture capital in the US and Japan, open innovation and the non-profit Creative Commons. He started the [...]

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3 Ghosts of Christmas Eve Try to Design an iPhone App

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Dearest Readers, It’s Christmas Eve and I have a little tale to tell. Not a nice one about Scrooge learning the spirit of Christmas though. It’s a different sort to be sure. This year the 3 Ghosts of Christmas Eve have a more modern and hip task to accomplish. For some reason not completely evident [...]

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Thoughts While Sitting in a R&D Class

Saturday, January 31, 2009

This sunny Sunday I am sitting through 8 hours of R&D material for my MBA program. I thought it might be interesting for a change to expose a bit of it on this blog and maybe even stay awake. I don’t know if I can tie it back to social media but innovation is a [...]

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