Android Bazaar & Conference: No Doubt The Community To Heat Up In 2011
Japan Android Group[J], a Google Groups-originated tech community of Android developers and users in Japan, held their semiyearly general assembly called Android Bazaar and Conference(ABC) 2011...
View ArticleSteply: A HK-made Photo Sharing App Attracts iPhone Users, Especially In Asia
Last August, I was invited to attend Startup Saturday, a Hong Kong’s first ever remarkable tech start-up event, by Takeshi Hirano, the editor and writer for TechCrunch Japan, during his one-month...
View ArticleWho’s Free And Tonchidot To Hold Fundraising Party At SXSW To Help Relief...
A cross-post to Asiajin and Startup Dating. SXSW is currently taking place in Austin, Texas. Asiajin contributors Serkan Toto and Paul Papadimitriou are there for moderating panels on Japanese web...
View ArticleMeet Japanese Start-ups on Fri and Sat in Singapore
Picture courtesy: Flickr user edwin.11 (used under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license) Singapore is very hot on tech throughout this week, since Echelon 2011, one of the largest tech...
View ArticleAugust’s Startup Weekend Events To Take Place In Tokyo, Kyoto And Fukuoka
In the next month, it will be the hottest summer ever which is filled with a number of start-up events. Jonny Li, a Tokyo-based British start-up curator and also known as a partner for the Startup...
View ArticleRegister For The Next Startup Weekend In Japan: November 18, Kyoto Research Park
Startup Weekend is in the process of establishing itself as a “brand” and regular event in Japan’s web and startup world, and following Tokyo in August, it’s now time hold a Startup Weekend in Kyoto....
View ArticleAs The First In Its Kind, Digital-Focused Event To Be Held This Weekend In...
As the first in its kind (for me at least), there will be a big three-day event in Fukuoka this weekend, which is called Myojo Waraku or just “MJ” in short, where a bunch of celebrities, geeks and...
View ArticleOtaku Social Matching Service “Otakuma” Reincarnated As “Ultema”
C. S. T. Entertainment [J] has announced that they will be closing their specialized Otaku (nerd) social matching service Otakuma [J] as of May 26th. “Otakuma” is C.S.T. Entertainment’s first shot at...
View Article“freeml Talk” Brings Messaging To Classic Mailing List Service “freeml”
GMO Media, Inc. [J] has released the smartphone messaging application “freeml talk” [J], which allows exchanges between members of their service “freeml” [J] on which you can create a mailing list....
View ArticleRelaxed Tweet-Like “Say Whatever You Wanna Say” Community “Kiite Yo! Mirucho”...
CyberAgent, Inc. [J] has announced that the number of users of “Kiite Yo! Mirucho” (Listen Up! Mirucho), a new sensation community service for Ameba for Smartphone [J] which connects people through...
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