Japan - Serkan Toto is on fire. The Japan-based technology blogger I reported about last year not only has done an excellent job staying on top of the tech scene in Japan (in English) through his own blog at Tokyotronic and as a colleague at Asiajin, but.
Topics: Crunchgear, interview, Japan, podcast, Serkan Toto, tokyo

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Nagoya - Recently a colleague of mine and I had a Skype chat about what makes a microblogging site start to fade. Jaiku and Pownce topped our list as web services over the past year intending to be the next “Twitter Killer”. Both failed. Our..
Topics: Brightkite, Flickr, geotagging, GPS, Jaiku, Japan, lifestream, microblogging, navi, pownce, Shozu, Syndicated, Technology, Tsurumai, twitter, Twitterverse, Zooomr

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With the excitement of the Twitter announcement a short time ago, it was interesting to see Twitter-Japan / Digital Garage are not sitting on their hands. Earlier this week we learned about an “impromtu” visit Twitter Japan was having in...
Topics: Japan, Misc, nagoya, pacificIT, pacificIT Japan, Personal, swag, Technology, Tweetup, twitter, Twitter Japan, Valleywag

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Had my first peak at Grand Effect today after spotting it in an article.This seems to be a bit of a different animal than the typical “banding together of bloggers under one flag”. While the emphases is on technology and the writers are...
Topics: blog network, blogging network, blognation Japan, Social Media Today, Syndicated, Technology

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There’s a nifty new Twitter service I’ve been trying over the past week which does an old trick and a few new ones. It’s called TweetLater and the basic idea is to automate your Tweets for posting in the future.The idea of posting a...
Topics: auto follow, auto welcome, automate, syndicate, Syndicated, techmeme, Technology, tweetlater, twitter

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