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August 3, 2007
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Recent News

Hitotoki Tokyo has launched in Japanese, after the successful launch of the English version. We have a few stories up there already so go have a look.
We will also open in New York in September and are currently looking for submissions.

I have published an article on how to make better presentations at Pecha-Kucha Night events. It is up on the AQ blog, where I work.

The 3rd collection of our TAB T-shirts has just been released in our new online store. 5 designers have donated graphics illustrating their love of Tokyo to help us promote the city as a lively and happening place, as well as support our Non-Profit Organization team (paid staff and volunteers). The Shop has been entirely redesigned and includes a new bilingual cart system, interfacing with Paypal.

TAB has redesigned. A slight redesign with a more modern look and a wider frame to provide us with elbow room for future growth. How do you like it?

We have also relaunched TABlog, TAB's event review blog, with an entirely new look and feel, closer to that of an online magazine. More visual and structure on the front page allow us to promote more varied content and do so independently of its publication date.

Finally, TAB is hiring... We are looking for a new event data editor.

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In unrelated news, my friend Kevin has finally launched his wonderful One Life Japan eco-business. They specialize in fun, intellectually stimulating, physically satisfying, and environmentally sound educational bike tours in Japan.
I will be joining one of his tours in the next few months.

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June 12, 2007
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The new AQ site is live!

AQ, the Tokyo-based little webdesign/print studio I work with has a fancy new website.
I am really pleased with its looks. Simple, not geeky and with cute little illustrations to accompany visitors.
We do Japanese & bilingual web design, localization, usability testing, graphic design and consulting.

Check some of our selected works, and bookmark our new blog.

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April 6, 2007
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I'm a coin maker

Just for personal reference on terms I made up and would like to see used more:

Nicolas Nova says:
A "100Gb evening" is a term coined by Paul Baron to refer to, as he says, “events where I have discovered so many things that I want to research more”
referring to that meeting with Adam Greenfield and Fabio Sergio in February 2003.

As a caption for this February 2007 photo on Flickr I said:
oh, and they have spermalinks: (for many baby readers)

Should I dare rename all the "permalinks" as "spermalinks" on this blog?

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August 29, 2006
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TAB shirts for cheaper!

Updated We've again lowered the price of the fantastic 5 TAB shirts to 3000yen for 2 shirts until the end of August. This is the final sale. 2 DAYS LEFT!
Those shirts' designs were donated by five international artists/designers:
Jonathan Barnbrook, Power Graphixx, Paul Cox, Nobory Tsubaki, Buro Destruct to help make a bit of money to support the NPO behind TAB and its team.
This is our first line of shirts and we have about 30 shirts left.
and, we ship international!
Get them while they last!

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May 5, 2005
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Thank you!

Thanks to Raphaël (who's still looking for some internet-related short-mission job opportunities in Tokyo), my Axis of Evil weather news on IN-duce's front page, my AD-duce photos of Tokyo RSS feed and a few other bits and pieces here and there are finally working again. So enjoy!

Thanks to Long-Long, my sister might be able to find a cheap flight to come and see me in Tokyo mid-May on her way back from Canton in China where she spends weeks at a time for her work.

Thanks to Matt, we enjoyed 2 relaxing days outside of Tokyo near Suwa in a very old-style Japanese house that could fit our Tokyo flat 3 or 4 times.

Thanks to the TAB team for trying their best in making our booth at the forthcoming Design Festa (14-15 May) a pleasure to visit!

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November 18, 2004
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GPS Phone worked, school girl murdered anyway

[RFID in Japan] An elementary school girl was kidnapped in the Japanese city of Nara yesterday. The girl had a GPS-enabled mobile phone. At 5PM, the girl called her mom and hanged up immediately. The mother knew that she could get a map indicating where her daughter was if the daughter's cell phone was turned on. She fetched a map and found that the girl was located in a park near her house.
Later on, the kidnapper used the girl's phone to send a photo SMS message to her mother -- it said "I got your girl." That was at around 8PM. According to GPS data, the message was sent from a residential area that was 6 kilometers away from her house. Since then, it was impossible to access GPS data, which probably meant that the phone's battery run out or the phone was turned off by someone. 4 hours later, the girl was found dead near the the area indicated by the last GPS data.
This tragedy raises a question about usefulness of new tracking technologies including GPS and active RFID. Do they do anything beyond providing parents with small peace of mind? From a child's perspective, if GPS and/or active RFID tags don't make his/her life safer, what's the point in carrying them around? Makes me feel like something is missing.

Interesting to note how the English version of the original article on the Asahi website fails to mention all references to the GPS system the girl was carrying...

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June 20, 2004
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Mogi in the news in Sweden

If you read Swedish, then you might want to read this write up of Mogi by Jon Thunqvist, a Swedish reporter based in Tokyo: Ny Teknik - Mobil jakt p skatter i Tokyo
There's a nice "iconic" photo of me playing Mogi in Roppongi Crossing, the exact same place where Mathieu Castelli came up with the basic ideas for the game a few years ago.

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April 15, 2004
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Japan's Net user population tops 60%

[Kyodo News] The percentage of Internet users in Japan topped 60% for the first time in 2003, with the number of such people in their 40s and 50s notably growing, a government report showed Wednesday.
The total number of Japanese Internet users came to an estimated 77.3 million as of Dec 31, or 60.6% of the total Japanese population, the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications said in the report.

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