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Since last Saturday, I moved to Manila in the Philippines. The land of Friendster! I’ve been reading and learning about the social web of this country in the past months to expand yet again my expertise after Europe and Japan. ...

Today, I’ll try a new viral experiment with Andrew Shuttleworth: Extreme Hanami. ...

Yesterday saw the third episode in the revamped JapanTechTalk podcast. Since it happened at the same time as my sayonara party,Robert Sanzalone got a big surprise asAndrew Shuttleworth, Steve Nagata, Joseph Tame, Rob Cawte and myself crashed the podcast after 15 minutes...

I recently participated in a podcast with Robert Sanzalone in Nagoya. We’ve talked mostly about MobileinJapan.com, the community I’ve created with Andrew Shuttleworth about everything mobile in the keitai country. It...

Kerry Kiyohara is organizing a small panel on “How to Make Money with Social Media Marketing” next Friday evening, February 6, in Tokyo. SPI+metrics, a marketing analytics consultancy, will participate along with some members of the Japan Social Media Marketers community. Fo...

In the recent days, the new US administration has started rolling out a new online strategy. The redesigned White House website gives us a first glimpse on how the Obama team is trying to implement its social network approach. But what about Japan...

In Japan, the social network service scene is quite different from what people would imagine. Here’s a first striking example to what a SNS can serve here. Take a look at Web Kare It’s a social networking service allowing young girls to create virtual boyfriends. Ye...

We are all seing various new social networks appear everyday, especially thanks to Ning, which simplifies such a creation. In Japan, other companies are doing the same thing, allowing us to learn a bit more about unusual hobbies...

I was reading this Slate article today, and it struck me once more: people love Facebook, yet they tend to find the service “creepy”. Pardon me, but it’s just naive. 150 millions users, apparently logging in at least once a day. Yes, Facebook is a runaway success. It h...

There’s no dignified retreat to the retweet frenzy these days. As of late, I’ve been retweeting a lot. Is that a sign that I’ve got nothing to say? You cannot afford to think so. The retweet is one of the most powerful tool in the Twitter-world. Re-what? What’s a retweet? It’s s...

Look at your Twitter feed. Retweet is the new Twitter trend, but there’s no cohesion on how it’s done. Until Twitter decides to implement the feature directly, the developers are having a innovation field day on how to do it: Retweet @, RT @, via @, etc. Si...