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What I’ve Learned From My First HTML5 Based WordPress Theme Development

I made a new theme for my blog and I choose HTML5. Visit here if you are subscribing via email or RSS. Nothing special, it still looks quite simple.
To develop something is always the best way to learn new technologies and that’s the reason why I developed the theme. Here are what I’ve learned from the process.

  1. Framework is important to develop HTML5 base web sites.Productive programmers prefer to use well designed frameworks or modules to develop apps. Same thing is happening. In HTML5 era, writing HTML/CSS is not only for web designers. Programmers will come to write HTML/CSS. It’s going to change the development process. I chooseLess Framework 4 for my blog theme. It helps me to write flexible layout to support various resolutions without writing tons of lines of code.
  2. ‘Progressive enhancement’ helps us to live in the future. In a few years ago, I was always working hard to make pixel perfect web design for all available browsers but it doesn’t make sense anymore. No one want to get it except the author. The most important thing is to make compatible design for all available browsers and devices. Please resize the current window to see what will happen.
  3. HTML5 is fun to use. I know it’s not perfect yet but unlike older version of HTML, I feel philosophy. We always need to focus on content itself while writing code to make sure what kind of content will be displayed there. This is how we can write beautiful code.

My first version is not enough. I need to try more to find out better way to use elements or techniques but I’ve learned a lot from this first version.

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Time to write something as my first post

I haven’t yet published post here. This is the first one. I think there are tons of place to publish content like WordPress, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook etc. I don’t know how I should use here. I know there is a brilliant feature to post multiple platform at once via Posterous but I don’t need it. I choose individual tools to update content.

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I forgot that I had connected Posterouns and this WordPress blog. Yes unexpectedly the post above is here. I posted via Posterous. OK, I see how it works well. My Posterouns is here.

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How Japanese Mobile Gaming And SNS Market Is Working

This interview with DeNA founder/CEO Tomoko Namba told us a lot. DeNA is running a mobile gaming SNS platform called Mobage.
At the interview she said:

  • DeNA’s revenue: $1.2B
  • DeNA’s users: 20M
  • Japanese companies have interest in acquiring companies out side of Japan
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Speeding Up Social Medias And What's Next in 2011?

Instagram got a million users. But the important part is here:

It took Foursquare just over a year to get a million users. It took Twitter about two years. Instagram? They accomplished the feat in less than three months.

Sounds cool. I’m not an Instagram addict but the result told us that their social strategy works well.

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Unlinked Foursquare and Twitter due to this

Word of the year

Japan post service launched Twitter analyzer which picks up you the most tweeted word of the year. The service only can understand Japanese though.
My result is the screenshot above. That’s my tweeted words ranking.
The result tells me one thing. Most of my tweeted Japanese are location related words and it means most of my Japanese tweets are came from Foursquare. What a boring tweet I made!
So I changed my mind and unlinked Foursquare and Twitter to stop to make noises anymore. Anyway, I keep using Foursquare and post my location to Facebook wall.

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ReadySTEADY Stabilizer For Podcasters and Video Bloggers

readySTEADY
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Found this at Engadget. It’s a stabilizer for pocket camcoders like Xacti and seems good for our podcast shows on messa.tv.
There are some stabilizers for DSLR or camcoders but this one costs just $29.99. Sounds great. I don’t know where I can get this from Japan though. You can watch a review video at the original post.

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[Information] Moved To A Stable Server


Japanese version of this blog has got tons of access since I published a post about Evangelion (Only in Japanese). That’s why I decided to move to this blog to EC2.
I’m already using Amazon EC2 for our web sites like messa.tv and jp.messa.tv but I choose a DIY server for this blog. Of course tried to configure a web server and WordPress/Plugins to handle tons of access but got too many visitors at once via Twitter and Japanese social bookmarking site Hatena Bookmark.
Anyway, I hope the current system works well for all of visitors, thanks!

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NES Card Case and MOO mini Cards

NES Card Case Front

Got a new card case for my personal MOO cards. Looks like Japanese version of original NES!
NES Card Case Buttons

Buttons are like a real controller.
MOO Cards

Ok let’s put MOO mini cards into this.
Colorful Cards

I made these for my blog.
Fit

FIt like this. Excellent!

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iPhone Doc For A Cool Office

iRetrofone

This is what I really want. The modern model looks nice but I prefer the retro model.

Desk Phone Dock

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What Should Poken Change For Japanese Market

Poken is not so pupuler here in Japan but we can buy it at some shops or tech events. I got it almost 1 yeaer ago but haven’t touched before I joined WordCamp Kyoto in Oct 2009. I love the concept of poken but it still not be success in Japan. OK, let me suggest some ideas to be success in Japan.

Suggestions for Poken

They should change some, for Japanese market.

1. Charactor design matters

Poken charactors are creepy. If they want to be success in Japan, need to learn a lot from Otaku people. You can find talented Otakus in Nico Video or anime/game communities.

2. Connect the online platform with Japanese SNS services more smoothly

Most of potential users are already there. Get involve them with mobile phone browser supportted version of the online platform.

3. Find good partners to sell the product

As soon as possible. It depends on their audience building strategy but find good partners to sell the product is really important for their business especially in Japan. Once the product will start to spread among yound people, no one can stop it. To make it happen, they need to find good partners carefully but quickly.
In addition, introduce Poken as a “eco friendly business card” can make impression for Japanese audience now. Anyway, I hope they can build their competitive advantages here in Japan.

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