Introducing Japanese Cool Web Services

Introducing Japanese cool web services Eiji Sakai @elm200 #barcamppp

Who am I?
Eiji Sakai 　酒井　英禎
A Japanese software engineer
Living in Saigon
Working with Ruby on Rails for years

Japan 　日本
has many good web sites.
but not known to the world.
I will present some cool websites today

Commons Marker
http://commonsmarker.com/
-Social bookmark
=> Social Annotation
-delicate Javascript techniques
(I took part in creating programs)

TweetMonkey
http://elm200. blogspot .com/2009/08/ tweetmonkey -allows-you-to-tweet-from.html
-Twitter client
-Greasemonkey script
-You can directly tweet on the page you are looking at.

Kanji Fandom
http://kanji-fandom.com/
Allows you to convert any English word(specially people’s name) into Kanji(Chinese characters) for fun

Sekai Camera
http://support. sekaicamera .com/
-Augumented reality(AR) through GPS and iPhone
-Messages are attached to a location
-Can be shared by other people

Denno Coil 電脳コイル
http://www. tokuma .co. jp /coil/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Coil
-A Japanese animation that features Argumented Reality technologies
-AR researchers are crazy about this anime.

Lang-8
http://lang-8.com/
-Language exchange
ex)
-A Japanese teaches Japanese to a khmer
-A khmer teaches Khmer to a Japanese

Hatena 　はてな
http://www.hatena.ne.jp/
-Hatena provides communication services
ex) blog, question & answer system, social bookmarks etc
-Eagerly supported by Japanese geeks

Mixi
http://mixi.jp/
-Japanese largest social network system(SNS)
-”Facebook in Japan”
-Everybody uses it...except me

Thank you for your listening!!

Introducing Japanese Cool Web Services

by Eiji Sakai on Oct 03, 2009

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