Entries from May 2009

May 26, 2009

Social Media in Japan – Part 2

Ok, so here is part two of Social Media in Japan – click here to see the first part.
I’m going to try to use a different point of view in this article and I hope you guys like it.
First lets take a look at the business model of four big Social Media Sites in Japan: [...]

May 22, 2009

Advertising in Cabs

I read last couple of weeks a very nice article about Taxi advertising in Japan at Japan Trends Blog but firs i would like to show some examples of how Taxi is used as a media in Brazil.
All the images are from a company called CarTaxi.

Most of this advertising are in São [...]

May 19, 2009

Tech Culture in Japan

Here is another very cool presentation about the Tech Culture in Japan, I found this at Fumi Yamazaki’s blog – What’s happening in Japan right now – where she wrote a very interesting article about the Bar Camp in Tokyo.
Etech09:Japanese Tech Culture – Demystifying the Japanese weird toys and tools-

View more presentations from Fumi Yamazaki.

May 19, 2009

Gizmos in Japan

I was meaning to post this for some time, here is a brief video of  Lisa Katayama (TOKYOMANGO) talking about Japanese gizmos. I have to agree with everything she said.

This is very important to understand when we talk about product development.