By now 100s if not 1000s of posts about the iPad in Japan have rained down on the blogosphere since Mr. Jobs launched it into the market the week before last. Japanese people are clearly going nuts for it even more than the launch of the iPhone. Practically everyone I knew from the most tech [...]
According to a Nielson Net Ratings March report, Japanese web users (33%) are less willing to pay for online content when it is readily available offline than both the global average (47%) and the Asian Pacific average (57%). Of the Asian countries Japan is at the very bottom range. A few noteworthy stats I’d like [...]
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 [...]
A Realization On November 25th of last year, I was struck by the sudden realization that in Japan social media as a marketing discipline was under represented through an online or offline community forum. There has been an active Web 2.0 event called Tokyo2Point0 started by Andrew Shuttleworth that has been going on for about [...]
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Not so long ago I was doing some research on Japanese online shopping behavior and found very pecular for an American, even one who has spent 14 years here. Looking at this Google Trend graph you get some sense of how people shop: 1) Yellow: Kakaku.com, 2. Blue:Rakuten, 3. Green:Amazon, 4) Auction (Yahoo and others). [...]
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Tonight I got turned onto Google Trends and started to have a look at 3 big SNSes for the Japanese region (obviously Mixi is the biggie but I wanted to see how Facebook and MySpace were fairing). The way it works is that you can see what sites people visited or searched next after the [...]
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
In September and October 2008 I had the great opportunity to co-teach a virtual art class as a visiting artist at Kanazawa Institute of Technology. I was invited to co-teach alongside artist, architect and author Azby Brown who is head of the Future Design Institute and associate professor at the Kanazawa Institute. It was an [...]
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