Speaking at three Persona Consortium” events in Jan/Feb 2008 – Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka

In January and February I'll be making presentations (in Japanese) at three events hosted by the Persona Consortium. If you're interested in hearing about the…

December 20, 2007 | Forrester

How should Japanese Financial Services companies (and other services industries) use virtual worlds?

"Second Life" has become something of a buzzword in Japan this year. The virtual world launched a Japanese language interface earlier this year and the…

December 6, 2007 | Forrester

Boiling a frog or an analyst?

The boiling frog story is part of business folklore. It goes something like this: "If you throw a frog in boiling water he will quickly…

December 4, 2007 | Forrester

Could social computing encourage the Japanese electorate to be more engaged in politics?

I shan't translate today's Japanese blog entry into English. I think that my "subway series" metaphor for the Rudy vs. Hillary battle might not impress…

November 20, 2007 | Forrester

the future of phones? more like computers?

I was interested to see Steve Wozniak weighing in on the iPhone debate in this interview with "Laptop magazine": http://laptopmag.com/Features/The-Way-it-Woz-Steve-Wozniak-on-All-Things-Apple.htm?page=0 L: Is there anything…

October 30, 2007 | Forrester

KDDI launches “Simple Plan” – an end to handset subsidies

October 5 – Nikkei Business Daily (Nikkei Sangyo Shinbun) article titled: After the removal of "subsidy money"… Handset Price War The article concerns an announcment…

October 7, 2007 | Forrester

CEATEC Japan 2007

I made a presentation on Social Computing yesterday at the CEATEC Japan show – and took the opportunity to look around some of the…

October 5, 2007 | Forrester

Has Apple gone evil?

I just wrote this piece in Japanese – but I thought I should summarize in English because it was a bit difficult for me to…

September 30, 2007 | Forrester