Eiji Sakai introduces several popular Japanese websites including Commons Marker for social bookmarking and annotation, TweetMonkey for tweeting directly from web pages using Greasemonkey scripts, and Kanji Fandom for converting English words to Japanese characters. Other sites presented are Sekai Camera for augmented reality messages through location and GPS on iPhones, the anime Dennō Coil featuring augmented reality technologies, Lang-8 for language exchange, Hatena for communication services like blogs and social bookmarks, and Mixi as the largest social network in Japan similar to Facebook.

1. Introducing Japanese cool web services Eiji Sakai @elm200 #barcamppp

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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

8. 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.

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

10. 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

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

15. Thank you for your listening!!