Infinity Ventures Summit Fall 2008 and Jason Calacanis

I am attending Infinity Ventures Summit Fall 2008 in Miyazaki. This is my second IVS to attend. This time more than 300 start-up entrepreneurs from Japan, Asia, the US, and Autralia.
Before IVS, I was honored to have a chance to interview Jason Calacanis of Mahalo.
Here are videos of the interviews.

JasonTrust
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story on Nico Nico Douga

Wired runs an interesting story on Nico Nico Douga and Hiroyuki.
Meet Hiroyuki Nishimura, the Bad Boy of the Japanese Internet

Infinity Ventures Summit Spring 2008 in Sapporo, Japan

I am attending Infinity Ventures Summit Spring 2008 in Sapporo, Japan. It is an invitation-only technology conference for technology start-ups. This year, about 320 CEOs and COOs of Japanese technology start-ups are attending. According to Mr. Masashi Kobayashi, a well-known venture capitalist who organizes this event, attendants from overseas more than doubled to 35 this year. US web 2.0 companies such as meebo, seasmic, admobs and others are here, and established tech companies from Taiwan, mainland Chine, and Korea are giving speeches. I spoke with a couple of Chinese entrepreneurs; they are SOOO interesting! One of them told me that the US companies will not be able to "rule the Chinese markets." According to him, a Chinese search company is way ahead of Google China in terms of search market share, and some top management in Google China left the company already. One Korean attendee told me that the US companies don't understand the local markets. "They hire English speaking local people who have had no experience in local tech industries, just because their English speaking ability. So most of them fail miserably." One Taiwanese company said Apple's iTunes have no significant presence in Chinese market. What matters in online businesses is community, and in order to establish self-sufficient communities in local markets, you have to understand the local culture, he said.

DoubleClick Interview

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The interview took place last year in Tokyo. The above video is a digest version. You can listen to the entire interview by clicking the download botton below.

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This is a video clip I took when I interview Josh James, CEO of Omniture, in March.

digital Signage blog

My good friend Manolo Almagro let me know about this blog, Digital Out of Home.
Digital Signage is one of the fields that Japanese large electronics makers are interested in.
The blog will be a good source of information! Thanks Manolo-san.

Old and New merge on Nico Nico Douga

This is an example of Nico Nico Douga. What's different from YouTube is that you can post messages on screen. See the example above. Traditional Japanese song is mixed with techno-pops music. Nico Nico Douga is way more popular han YouTube among Japanese teenagers