I got iPhone 3GS yesterday. I had used iPhone 3G for a year and been very satisfied with it. But after updating to iPhone OS 3.0, iPhone 3G got somewhat slow. It was not so much slow, but this slowness is critical for mobile phone which everyday I use.
So I decided to buy iPhone 3GS. I don't think I was stupid.
Actually iPhone 3GS is faster than iPhone 3G. 3MP camera and compass are not so important for me.
This table is from the paper by Net Ratings translated by me.
Source: Net Ratings, May 27, 2009
75% of Twitter users in Japan is male. Compared with the US or the UK, this number is much higher. In the US and the UK, more than half of Twitter users is female.
According to Nielsen Online, Facebook is the #1 social networking site by total minutes spent in the US in April 2009.
Source: Time Spent on Facebook up 700 Percent, but MySpace.com Still Tops for Video, According to Nielsen , 06/02/2009
This table shows that Twitter increased 3712 percent year-on-year. Twitter is rapidly growing.
Opera 10 Beta 1 was released. Using this for a while, I got to love this. Opera 10(beta1)
Speed Dial Configuration
you will be able to set a background picture that can be stretched, centered or tiled. It is also possible to set the number of sites that should be shown, ranging from 4 to 25.
Visual Tab
Yes, we have added thumbnails on the tabs themselves to make it even easier to find that Web site you were looking for. These visual tabs are currently folded away by default, but can easily be enabled by dragging the drag handle available just beneath the tab bar.
These changes makes Opera 10 looks really cool. Try out this great browser!
Google Chrome for Mac was released. Now I'm trying out Google Chrome on my Macbook.
I use Opera as the default browser, and compared with Opera, this version of Chrome is not so fast. But it's start. We should expect further development.
By the way, this design is so cool.
Communication agencies have to be able to hadle PR because PR is a part of communication. There were advertising agencies and PR agencies, but now we have to think about clients' whole communication. We can't be a advertising agency or a PR agency any more. We have to be a communication agency. If advertsing is not required to achieve their purpose, we have to make a plan without advertising.
Media agencies muscle in - RP Week
http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/903849/
Volvo has set alarm bells ringing among PR agencies by selecting a media buying shop to handle its entire social media strategy.
MindShare was selected as the agency to handle Volvo's social media strategy and digital PR in UK. This seems natural as stated above.
This is the list about what free apps for iPhone I am/was frequently using.
For a web servicer, to make an iPhone app for the service is important to get more users. On the Apple's ecosystem, Apple and web servicers can get win-win outcomes.
My friend who bought iPhone recently asked me what iPhone apps are good to use, so I'm writing what my best iPhone apps are. First, I'll write about paid apps in this post.
Compared to Yahoo! US, Yahoo! Japan is very strong. Yahoo! Japan's share of searches is 52% in Japan , while Yahoo!'s share of searches is 20% in US.
Sourceļ¼Nielsen Online NetView(Japanese)
Source: comScore Releases April 2009 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
In terms of reach, Yahoo! Japan is dominant in Japan. Yahoo! Japan has 83.5% of reach in Japan, while Yahoo! in US has 61.9% of reach there.
Yahoo! Japan
Yahoo!
Source: Google Ad Planner
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!
