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  • Guaranteed lifetime employment is still alive in Japan

    This employment system is still alive in Japan, I just read on a blog written by a Japanese.
    “Guaranteed lifetime employment” has been the most popular employment system in Japan. Employees are guaranteed employment till they get 60. If you join a company at the age of 22, you can work there for 38 years if [...]

  • Cost of going to #BarcampKanazawa – transportation

    As I have never been to Kanazawa, Japan, and also Kanazawa is one of the places where I want to visit, thought of going to #BarcampKanazawa.
    I posted about being Barcamp Nomads in South East Asia, but Barcamp trip to Japan would be totally different..
    Just checking the cost and time. The time doesn’t include the transit [...]

  • Twitter Japan is not going to charge you…

    As I wrote last week, there were news that Twitter Japan is going to start “premium” services, but just after the news came out, twitter JP said like this on their blog.

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    dtsv.dtse_post_4626_title = ‘Twitter Japan is not going to charge you…’;

  • Twitter contents business will be launch in 2010…. hm…

    This business plan is just announced in Japan, by a company called GD MOBILE. This article says GD MOBILE is the company operate Twitter JP, but I thought Japanese version of Twitter was run by Digital Garage?
    They have been developing their platform for it, they’ll launch their service on January 2010.

    dtsv.dtse_post_4617_permalink = ‘http://31o5.com/2009/11/twitter-contents-business-will-be-launch-in-2010-hm/’;
    dtsv.dtse_post_4617_title = ‘Twitter [...]

  • Barcamp KANAZAWA – IT and Japanese culture

    Just found this information, #Barcamp KANAZAWA is happening on 20 Feb, 2010 in KANAZAWA, JAPAN.
    I’ve added to the Event calendar .
    I’ve never been there, i’d love to go… is there any flights Bangkok to Kanazawa?
    Other events are also on the calender.

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  • Rules of Japanese style wedding party – part 1

    note : “wedding party” here means typical “Hiro-en” party which held after actual wedding at church, temple or shrine.

    1. Only invited guests can attend the party
    It means if you are invited you can join, but you can’t bring your partner with you. There are tables with name tags, these are for invited guests only, no [...]

  • Trip to Japan, first time in last 2 years.

    It’s been 2 years since I went back to Japan last time. It was the first time after MOZO started.
    Meetings everyday for a week in Japan,  but it was kind of interesting for me to visit there. There are many things I want to note, this is an entry to keep note for my self.

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  • Sense it

    Have you ever felt that Japanese people don’t say much about what they want or Japanese are like aliens you can’t know what they are thinking?
    It used to be a kind of beauty of Japanese unique culture. Sensing each other is kind of interesting way of communication, and I kind of like it. But now [...]

  • Departure – what is “normal”?

    The Japanese movie called “Departure” was on cinema in Bangkok. I expected the movie must be very quiet and beautiful.
    Yes, it was, but maybe 70% of my expectation.

    dtsv.dtse_post_2052_permalink = ‘http://31o5.com/2009/08/departure-what-is-normal/’;
    dtsv.dtse_post_2052_title = ‘Departure – what is “normal”?’;

  • 何で英語でtweetするの?

    同じネタ引っ張りすぎですが、これが最近頭の中にあることなのでアウトプット。「何で日本人なのに英語がしゃべれるの?」に対するいろんな反応をもらって、逆に、何で非英語ネイティブもみんな英語でつぶやくんだろう? と聞いてみまし [...]

  • 「ふーん」て思う

    こないだ#Google Wave Hackathonのあとビールのみつつ@koshianさんと、「タイに来たら変人って言われなくなった」ていう話をしたんだけれど、どうやらその後こんなエントリー(日本人の同質性はもっと叩か [...]

  • “Galapagos” Japan

    Sometimes people call Japan as “Galapagos”, because the technology in Japan is away ahead BUT very different from the rest of the world, especially mobile technology.
    Since I moved out Japan, I have found some more things which is not about technology but make me think Japan is really “Galabagos”.
    As a company we need receipt. when [...]

  • Crowd, social and being normal

    Just found an article related to my previous post “I have only one brain, power of being social”.
    There is an old saying that two heads are better than one. This saying received empirical support in social psychology in the 1920s, when a series of studies showed that groups were more accurate than their individual members. [...]

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    Google、PayPal、VeriSign、Verizonなど米企業7社は3月3日、企業および政府機関のサイト向けのオープンなオンラインID認証フレームワークの構築を目的とした非営利団体「Open Identity Exchange(OIX)」を立ち上げたと発表した。

     OpenID Foundation(OIDF)およびInformation Card Foundation(ICF)の支援により、OIXは米連邦政府向け認証フレームワークを提供する。OIXは、ID管理プロバイダーが連邦規格を満たすかどうかを認証する機関になる。Google、PayPal、信用調査会社のEquifaxの3社が最初の認定プロバイダーで、Verizonが現在審査中という。政府サイトとして最初に対応するのは国立衛生研究所(NIH)で、OpenIDやInformation Cardなどでログインした米国民はサイト内の検索やカンファレンスへの登録などを安全に行うことができる。