Category: japan |日本 | 일본
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Schedule info + other news
Schedule info Dare to dream: American and Delta want to charge money for access to their schedule info | Upgrade: Travel Better – schedule info is critical for planning and purchasing air travel. Charging for air travel schedule info is like any other brand charging for consideration to purchase. I can’t even articulate how crazy…
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Forest girls + more news
Forest girls News on Japan – New-old ‘Forest Girls’ fashion of Japan – mori girls or forest girls are based not only on a look but a lifestyle. While their layering might struggle in a Japanese summer, the forest girls idea of a more naturalistic lifestyle will likely have a longer appeal China Conversationage :…
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Sun Microsystems + other news
Sun Microsystems Oracle in shock $5.6 billion takeover of Sun – Computer Business Review : News – Sun Microsystems is a Silicon Valley icon. Cisco built their first routers around a Sun Microsystems motherboard. Dot com companies hosted their fledgling online businesses on Sun Microsystems servers. Quant analysts in banks built their models on Sun…
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Brands in China – be true to yourself
I was reading a post the other day (and forgot to bookmark it – my OCD having been taken out by the man flu) about how a substantial minority of respondents thought that US-originated international brands in China like Coca-Cola were local Chinese brands. Coca-Cola originally entered the Chinese market in 1928 and then re-entered…
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Underground
Murakami is best known for his book Norwegian Wood, but I chose Underground: the Tokyo gas attack and the Japanese Psyche as my first Murakami book. It is his only non-fiction work to date (at least to my knowledge). Murakami fled Japan after the success of Norwegian Wood and was lacking context around the Sarin…
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Tokyo Girls collection: shopping with a Japanese mobile twist
Tokyo Girls Collection and Shibuya Girls Collection are twice yearly events held in Tokyo ran by blogs Candywalker.com and Girlswalker.com that highlight the latest Japanese fashion ranges to young women. The women usually live outside Tokyo and usually attend the event in person or watch it streamed live online. The events attract 20,000 attendees. What…
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Survival of the fastest + other news
Survival of the Fastest YouTube – survivalofthefastest’s Channel survival of the fastest offers a unique insider perspective on the mad scramble in ad agencies during a recession. How do both staff and agencies adapt in economically straightened times is probed in survival of the fastest. Business Analyst: YouTube Will Lose Almost $500 Million This Year…
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Blyk + more news
Blyk Communities Dominate Brands: Average Blyk campaign 100K messages, average segment only 8K youth – digging into Blyk stats – so much in this. Blyk took a model that had been popular in Africa and India – funding data, messaging and voice services with advertising and took it to the next level: a mobile carrier…
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Skank blog + other news
Skank blog MediaPost Publications Tearful Model Claims ‘Skank’ Blog Damaged Her Reputation – with a skank blog the online world extends bullying into the adult world from the school yard. With concepts like the skank blog will come leaking of sexually intimate material as a media platform. Think sex tapes, but for ‘average people’. The…