Have you ever dreamed about getting better ways to convert your emotions via twitter? Are you experiencing a hard time figuring out the feelings behind a tweet? With this new iPhone app called “Feel on!“, view the Twitter-motions of the tweet and also see it in manga format. For example, if you tweet includes words such as “I am pissed…”, it associates an angry face with the tweet.
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This month we focus on an entrepreneur in the intercultural realm – Rochelle Kopp, leader of Japan Intercultural Consulting. Her consulting firm bridges business culture between Japan and the US. Rochelle’s energy for making Japanese companies globally successful is inspiring. Read More »
Challenge 1: Decision Making Speed
Just takes too much time to make decisions. They need to ask their bosses permission for every small decision as no one dares to take responsibility for their actions.
Challenge 2: Success in Japan
Many of them are already modestly successful in Japan. In other words, the Japanese will not risk too much which limits their aggressiveness in the new market. Also, even if they fail, there is a place to return.
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Image by Dave Golden
All in all, it was a great to see the rising sun of Japan brighten the shores of the SF tech community. They came at an exciting time in San Francisco with the US Navy Blue Angels buzzing around town and our SF Giants in town for their baseball pennant quest. In Part 1, we will highlight the Fukuoka Ruby Night events and a special visit to the Twitter Headquarters here in SF. Read More »
Tomi Brooks-AdLocal and Brandon Hill
Last night, we attended a Japanese Business Event, hosted by AdLocal on Howard & 2nd St in San Francisco. The theme of the night was Mobile and Geo-location.
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August 23, 2010
btrax, Inc.
San Francisco, California, USA
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Silicon Valley is the place where Netscape lost its war. The competition of browsers is fierce and harsh here. But without fear, a new browser has entered the market. It was born in Japan. It is named Lunascape. It is very Japanesque when you see the design templates of the background which you can choose from. They have samurai and kimono color backgrounds.
Lunascape opens multiple windows vertically
The Live Audio Recording Question
btrax often gets requests involving recording and publishing voice using a computer’s microphone – from people such as educators and musicians.
Given all the demand for tools to create, edit and distribute images or videos, it would seem a third-party solution for audio would already exist.
But amazingly no one seems to have tried since Odeo (previously run by the Twitter founders Evan Williams, Jack Doresey and Biz Stone) gave up on recording podcasts and reverted to being a multimedia playlist portal four years back.
Odeo used Adobe Flash technology, which has since become even more sophisticated.
Solutions Outside the English Sphere
It turns out my mistake was researching for solutions only in English. Once I started digging around search engines in Japanese I found a fantastic voice recording and publishing start-up called Koebu.com.
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Brandon
