I wll be making a presentation at Where 2.0 conference in San Jose, California May 19-21.
Wow! Sounds exciting!
We will do our best effort to have a good presentation to visualize our current/future works and perspectives.
Can't wait for the conference!
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Our goal is pretty neat and unique, and hoping to have a great impact for those who ... I dare say who have an ordinary life :)
The above is a picture of a usb servo (motion) controller.
What for?
It is a top secret project though, but you'll see this by the end of this year, I hope.
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This ads system collects and analyzes user's web history, not only from its own ads network, but from all the web site.
The technique is pretty unique, or I should say, "violate".
They put thousands of external links on their flash embed components, and check if the users had ever visited each of the external links by obtaining the "visited" style sheet property.
This is thought to be a kind of bugs of the css and javascript specification.
I admit they are wise enough to cheat this feature, but this would be a piracy for the user's privacy, and I believe they should not use this technique to do better targeting ads delivery.
I should list up all the web sites they are sneaking into our web history to grab our preferences...
]]>However, I sometimes see those free papers and/or magazines at the restaurants owned by non-Japanese owner.
J@pan Inc might be a good magazine for you to subscribe, provided that you are mainly focused on the small to mid-size businesses.
seekjapan offers a free paper named "Japanzine."
Japanzine has full of ads, so this might be a good source for you to keep track on what's happening in Japan.
Of course, there are plenty of web sites for non-Japanese (English spoken) people, but sometimes "off-line" media works better than online.
If you have any recommendations, I'd happy to know that :)
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Yammer is now famous for being a winner of the TechCrunch 50.
However, I have no idea what the challenging point of this service is.
It is just a twitter for a company. That's it.
There are many twitter clone products out there, and why now yammer?
For me, GoodGuide looked more interesting.
Their presentation was great, and the concept of the service is very clear, though I hope we could live in a safer world that doesn't need this kind of service :)
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Softbank had sold almost 200,000 iPhones in Japan, but after the "festival", they seems to be having a hard time to sell out their tons of iPhones in stock.
Here's my question: what will you do if you get iPhone?
The answer is: Check the Email!
Or, you'll say "See the map", "use twitter" or "do facebook (mixi, in Japan)". Yes, that can be true.
But does these activities on iPhone will change your life? I guess no.
As all of these activities are already possible on the well-developed cell phones in Japan.
So iPhone here in Japan is a kind of an expensive toy for the geeks.
When I lived in Palo Alto, it is reasonable that most of the people are enthusiastic about the iPhone, as cell phone is just for "talks" not for the "internet".
I understand iPhone will change your life dramatically, if you do not live in Japan.
P.S.
It is also true that nearly 80% of the iPhone sold in Japan (mostly Tokyo) is always "active".
We just wait to see what will happen in the mobile market :)
Google Chrome put a significant impact on the browser market right after it has launched a week ago.
It is said that it took more than 1 percent of the share in the browser market immediately.
However, as I check the traffic of my "most non-technical" web site, it's share is still 0.5% and it does not change AT ALL for these 5 days.
We can see google chrome on the TOP page of the Google Japan, but it seems like most of the people are just "watching" the new browser.
In Japan, IE is still too strong. It's share is almost 90%, and Yahoo! is still taking advantage of the Google in the sense of the web traffics.
I guess it will take some more years for Google to take advantage of the browser shares in Japan.
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I was focusing on other projects and had no time to update... sorry.
Now web scouter seems to be losing its power, but inspected sites are about to reach 80,000.
Current Top 10 sites are:
- CNN
- NYT
- /.
- Digg
- CNET
- Lifehacker
- WordPress
- BBC
- Dictionary.com
- TUAW
I love to read all of the above, except Dictonary.com.
It's a really good site, but I have no idea why they use "reference.com" instead of "dictionary.com"..
]]>Though it is just a simple REST API to grab the scouter value of the given url, I believe it is useful for most of the web sites that want to measure the real power of the media sites and blogs.
I have also prepared a Japanese version of the same API, in case you are Japanese.
Enjoy!
Do you know "Yahoo! Japan"?
A company that is famous for free Internet portal site, issues a magazine called "Yahoo! Internet Guide", famous for expensive, or I would say "comparably expensive" magazine.
Now Web Scouter is on Yahoo! Japan Internet Guide.
Web Scouter - check the power of the website
Geez, you can also see "simpleapi.net" on the captured image :)
It's also a cool service.
It says "You can check the power of the web site by just clicking the web scouter button on your browser. ... Web scouter has a cool effect on activating it."
They never say it comes from "Dragon Ball." Good respect for Toei :-)
Check out p160.
A Happy new year from @yoski.
I wish you a happy 2007.
As for me, hmm... I'm planning to release more than 3 web services this year, especially focusing on API and communications.
time flies. work harder :)
Web scouter's media power is getting more precise with delicious api.
I'm updating the whole data, and it may take 20-30 hours to complete.
New web scouter ranking will appear within a couple of days.
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When you bookmark web pages with toread, it has a link back to webscouter to inspect the media power of the web page.
Sounds great.
Here's the page generated by web scouter, which has a useful link to read the article in English.
He knows Dragon ball :)