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saw it via twitter from Jeremiah:

@jonathanbrowne was telling me about this Japanese Web 2.0 list: http://tinyurl.com/6dv4vl compares and contrasts US vs Japan

I wrote a comment on the post but decided to elaborate more on the topic. So here it goes.

Since I have lived in Japan for a year in Hokkaido I feel like I might have learned some stuff about Japanese web services and the way people use them from a different perspective. What does this mean? I had mainly been in touch with people NOT in the tech industry, not early adopters.

Booking travel plans online:

If a Japanese person HAVE to book travels online they’d go to: Jalan.net. (entirely in Japanese, also no mobile version)
Jalan also has publications on traveling which ties back to the website. The magazines are popular as they publish specific area or holidays specials.

I tried …

Back in 2004 I had a blog in wordpress that I kept for a class in university hosted on the school’s server. After graduating I decided to keep blogging and transferred that wordpress blog to my own wordpress. After being around the web industry for a while I decided to transfer my wordpress blog to drupal. The old blog was hosted on everybrandnewday.com (which is now offline). I have gone through many migrations of data and upgrades; however……

Last month I tried to upgrade to drupal 6. I did back up everything like everyone always tells you to. However, when everything failed to work and I was about to revert back to the old database….. That’s when I realized that the database zip file was actually corrupted. It failed to extract. After many struggle and painful times, I decided to …

I remember everyone was having this hype of having wearables that flashes words at people. “hey i think you’re hot!”. Nokia – Xpress-on Fun Shells Main pageis the next fun thing!!!

You wave your message at people! how fun is that?

I’ve been looking avidly on eBay trying to find me one.