Tokyo BarCamp 2009 was a great event, affording an opportunity to all participants to think about the future of the web.
Every session I joined was good. When I joined a discussion, I thought I wanted to know about a man who was speaking at the time. If I could know his latest tweet, photo, and blog post, the discussion would be more interesting. I think Augmented Reality(AR) has possibilities in this regard. Unfortunately, I couldn't join a session about AR. Is there any sessions about AR today? I wanna talk about this with tech geeks!
There were many discussions about Japanese web services. "Why could Mixi get a number-one social networking service?" "Why does Rakuten keep frumpy design?" They were very interesting.
These topics seem to be related to Japanese national character. Japanese tends to think of the web as the virtual world, not as continuation of the actual world. Kanji characters also have an influence on them, because Kanji characters are ideographs.
At the time between sessions, I talked with a participant about Japanese web services as follows: Some people having used Mixi migrate over to Ameblo, because they are tired of the relationship there. There are some clusters which people live in. (e.g. Mixi, Zenryaku Profile, Web 2.0, 2ch + Nico Video)
I would like to participate the next Tokyo Barcamp!