Month: November 2008

  • The Opaquenes of Japan’s social network systems (SNS)

    Opaqueness of Japan’s SNS was a point of discussion at the Next Context Conference. When you use Japan’s social network systems, instead of portrait photographs and real names in Western SNS, in Japan you’ll find that most people use phantasy names and pictures of churches, cats, airplanes, clowns and cartoons instead of passport photographs. Japanese…

  • Japan’s two worlds: Old Japan vs New Japan

    A few days ago the New Context Conference was held here in Tokyo, mainly about social network systems (SNS), top executives including CEO of LinkedIn, Facebook, and some exciting new photo, video conference and e-learning companies discussed market entry to Japan. Takeshi Natsuno, one of the three key DoCoMo managers who together started i-Mode and…