“Mafia wars” is very simple and easy game. But it’s differentiated when Zynga, provider of this game, uses open API of facebook. They know what will be the triggering point of this game. It’s not an interesting character or excellent graphic but the fact that users can be playing with their friends. There are several […]
Author: JK
Transition of contents delivery
When IPTV shows up, many people think it would be a new substitutue of cable TV and theaters. But there is no change. And today’s article on Best Buy’s new try is not that innovative. Though its similarity with IPTV, Bestbuy’s new model differently affect to the contents aggregation market. They have enough distribution channel […]
Wi-Fi is a kind of wireless local area network. It’s rapdly distributing worldwide after the launch of Apple’s devices – i Pod touch and i Phone. According to data from JiWire’s insights, the CAGR of public Wi-Fi hotspots is 137% from 2004 to June 2009. But so far this network techonology doesn’t popularized well in […]
Evolution of Communication
When people go to the area of communication, we think about voice call, short messages and internet chatting(including instants messages). But if we define communication is an interaction between people and includes all kinds of behaviors from this interaction like social networking, the area of communication is widened. Former days, there’s a few cases but […]
Take five for yourself
Every businessperson feel stress when they are working even though the degree is different between them. Some experts say moderate stress helps people achieving their goals. But if we can’t control our stress, it will make our life worse. Stress can be main reasons that drive people to demorallization and even lose pleasures to get […]
New wave of change
When I was a university student, I was interested in environment. Exactly I majored environmental engineering and especially focused on water treatment. But at that time i felt that this area would not be the sustainable business. It’s used for the public and economically spending a lot of money. It means this area needs only […]
Enterprise Currency
Nomura Reasearch Institute(NRI) define “Enterprise Currence(EC)” as points, mileage and electronic money that are currently used by many companies and customers. And they anticipate EC would be very common concept in near future. EC is very developed in Japan. Many people use electronic money for taking a train and buying something at a convenience store. […]
Smart Mobs
This book is written in 2002. If you read the book to the end of the chapter, you will be surprised by the level and depth of the contents. Howard Rheingold(the writer of this book) extracts brilliant insights from people’s behavior and technologies. The wirter urges some interesting phenomenon like young people in Shibuya. And […]
Though this book has its impressive subtitle – “Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness, the greatness of default option would be the more adequate subtitle of this book. It starts with the thesis that human is not that intelligent and considerable. And writers(this book is written by two writers) prove their opinion by some […]
Hot, Flat, and Crowded
His former writing, “The world is flat” gives what the world will undergo in near future and how it’s going around. The issue about Globalization makes world gets closer than before. Though I got some insights from Friedman’s thoughts, some people are against his arguments. Even someone writes the book whick has the name of […]