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BlogTalk 2009 (6th International Social Software Conference) - Call for Proposals - September 1st and 2nd - Jeju, Korea

Posted Fri, 05/29/2009 - 15:11 by John Breslin

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BlogTalk 2009
The 6th International Conf. on Social Software
September 1st and 2nd, 2009
Jeju Island, Korea

Overview

At the blognation Japan launch party last week

Posted Fri, 11/23/2007 - 18:36 by John Breslin

Last Friday, I attended the blognation Japan launch party (organised by editor Robert Sanzalone) at the Outback Steakhouse in Tokyo along with Eyal and Armin.

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"Made in Japan: What Makes Manga Japanese? And Why Western Kids Love It"

Posted Wed, 11/21/2007 - 22:10 by John Breslin

Since I'm interested in manga through running the boards.jp / Manga to Anime site, I found out about a talk when I was in Tokyo last week entitled "Made in Japan: What Makes Manga Japanese? And Why Western Kids Love It".

Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo: Eric Klinker - “Web 2.0 and content delivery”

Posted Wed, 11/21/2007 - 21:39 by John Breslin

My last report from the Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo event is about the talk by Eric Klinker, chief technical officer for BitTorrent Inc. (I met Eric and his colleague Vincent Shortino briefly on Thursday evening), who gave a talk about "the power of participation".

Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo: Håkon Wium Lie - “The best Web 2.0 experience on any device”

Posted Wed, 11/21/2007 - 21:15 by John Breslin

There was a talk at the Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo last Friday afternoon by Håkon Wium Lie, chief technical officer with Opera Software. He has been working on the Web since the early nineties, and is well known for his foundational work on CSS. Opera is headquartered (and Håkon is based) in Norway.

Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo: Scott Dietzen - “The impact of ’software as a service’ and Web 2.0 on the software industry”

Posted Sun, 11/18/2007 - 15:12 by John Breslin

Scott Dietzen, president and CTO of Zimbra, gave the third talk last Friday at Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo. Zimbra has been on the go for four years (so they are Web 2.0 pioneers), and embarrassingly I told Scott that I only found out about them very recently (sorry!). Scott's aim for this talk was to share the experience of having one of the largest AJAX-based web applications (thousands of lines of JavaScript code).

Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo: Rie Yamanaka - “A paradigm shift in advertisement platforms: the move into a real Web 2.0 implementation phase”

Posted Fri, 11/16/2007 - 13:19 by John Breslin

The second talk at the Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo this morning was by Rie Yamanaka, a director with Yahoo!’s commercial search subsidiary Overture KK. (I realised after a few minutes of confusion that Ms. Yamanaka's speech was being translated into English via portable audio devices.)

Day 1 (or at least half of it) at the Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo

Posted Thu, 11/15/2007 - 21:08 by John Breslin

After much fupping searching of bags, bodies and shoes and confiscating of my soft drinks in Busan Airport, I made it to the Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel in Shibuya this afternoon for the Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo where I attended some of today's events. (I missed this morning's English-language sessions unfortunately; I was looking forward to the ones with Joi Ito and Tim Bray.)