Archive for January, 2009

Internet Audience Surpasses 1 billion in Dec. 08

Posted under Technology on Friday, 23 January 2009 by Joop Dorresteijn
The Internet audience has quietly surpassed 1 billion visitors in December 2008, based on data from ComScore. Asia-Pacific Region Accounts for 41 Percent of Internet users and China Ranks as Largest Internet Population in the World. These rankings are estimations of home and work locations and are...
Read More...

Are we still before the corporate blogging revolution?

Posted under Internet, Technology on Friday, 23 January 2009 by Joop Dorresteijn
Just out of curiosity; how many corporate blogs do you read? Actually, the number of corporate blogs in my feed is rather limited. While blogging seemed an exciting alternative to the one-way advertising through print and radio - allowing a dialogue with customers perhaps a community of people...
Read More...

LG: Let’s combine a 3G phone and a watch

Posted under asides on Wednesday, 14 January 2009 by Joop Dorresteijn
During the last few years, technology has merged many devices. Some combinations are insanely genius, like the nifty packed smartphone on your desk for example, and the fellow who invented the microwave-oven combination should get an award too! But other product mergers are just ridiculous, some...
Read More...

Google has a new Favicon, do you like it?

Posted under Entrepreneurship, Korea on Saturday, 10 January 2009 by Joop Dorresteijn
In other shocking news, Google changed their favicon again! As you might remember, Google updated their favicon to a rather *fugly* one last June. A few days later Google challenged its audience to come up with a better Favicon. - Chapeau Google, good strategy to get people sending in...
Read More...

Gloomy skies over Osaka

Posted under Entrepreneurship, Japan on Saturday, 3 January 2009 by admin
Originally called Ozakajō, this is one of Japan's most famous castles, it played a major role in the unification of Japan during the sixteenth century of the Azuchi-Momoyama period. Osaka Castle is situated on a plot of land roughly one kilometer square. It is built on two raised platforms of...
Read More...