iAm Hiro ShinoharaJune 27th.
Celebrate Bill Gates Day with us here at Engadget – Engadget
You know I’m an Apple enthusiast but it’s time to say “I appreciate for your tons of epoch maeking work” to Bill. He definitely made the history of this industry, so really hard to think another possibilities of software and internet businesses without him.
You’re a great man Bill, I’ll miss you and hope success of your next big project!
Nice price! SoftBank did it! 7,280 yen for internet connection and basic rate of calling. And 23,040 yen for the iPhone itself.
Time to say good bye to docomo, though we had over 10 years relationship. I may not regret about it and never back to docomo again.
When can I get lined up at Apple Store Shinsaibashi?
Mark Zuckerberg came to Japan a month ago. More important thing than their announcement of localization for Japanese is Zuckerberg himself.
Seems he has better taste in clothes than before. Shold try to change something like him I hought 😛
A photo above is borrowed from Mr.Hayashi’s blog entry: nobilog2: facebook、日本進出！【雑感PART I】.
Busy days. And couldn’t update here.
It’s really fun for me to work like this but one blog post reminds me something important for our life. Just found it, touched, and some feelings push me to write this entry.
mental_floss Blog » He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died
Via Digg. Really touched for me, especially the last few days.
Yes. Life is sort. We live once. Do something you want every single day.
Fuyustuki: “What’s your mission?”
Asuka: “Operating the EVA.”
Fuyutsuki: “NO! To beat the Angels!”
What’s our mission? Writing some code? No, solve the problems.
Don’t try to look cool. It makes problems bigger sometimes and you may have to get help by UN. Just beat the Angels intently paying no attention. If your mission may not to beat it, you can choose what you shold do.
Rei: “You’ll never die. I’ll protect you.”
In my opinion, it’s important to be a workaholic for any startups. Thesedays I’m working with a great mentor who is a tipical workaholic man.
Jason Calacanis the CEO of Mahalo posted an interesting blog entry like below.
How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips)
Fire people who are not workaholics…
Then David Heinemeier on 37signals agrees the intention. However he said he don’t think it’s not good to fire people who aren’t workaholics. There’re reasons why David thinks like that on the blog of 37signals.
Fire the workaholics – (37signals)
I know 37signals decided to work only 4 days a week recently. It means no workaholics they need.
Let me say my thought again. I think it’s important to be a workaholics for any startups in a very early stage. Guys in 37signals may worked like that before, I thought. And they still work like that but they don’t think it’s just work, it’s just for fun for them.
Hey, do you think they could success and respected without hardwork? I don’t think so! I think David means compulsory overwork will not works well all the time. Not just means workaholics sucks.
If everyone in your team works like workaholics without any forcing and stresses, it means you already have a big possibility. In that way, I think I need to be more carefully to find someone work with.
I said I’ll work 12 hours a day in my new year’s resolution but I changed it at a beginning of March. It’s 16 hours a day.
I found a must read article. Hiroyuki NISHIMURA talked about his view about communities, CGM and markets around it.
4Gamer.net — ［OGC2008＃03］「2ちゃんねる」と「ニコニコ動画」のひろゆき氏が語る，ゲーム・コミュニティ・文化（シヴィライゼーション4【完全日本語版】）
I’m just thinking about the next step of my business on the internet. Some of my thought were different from his one. On the ohter hand, some were same.
Anyway, I got inspired a lot. Let me quote some of his words. It may long and only in Japanese, sorry.
僕は赤の他人とチャットしても，面白いとは思わないですからね。
まず「友達と遊ぶ」というのがあって，それが麻雀だったりモンハンだったりするという流れです。
彼らにやりたいと思わせるか，彼らがやりたいことをやるようにするかの二つだけが選択肢です。
残った情報として価値が高いのはどっちかっていうと，たぶん属人情報が少ないほうじゃないかと，僕は思うんですけど。説得したければそうせざるを得ない。
こういうコミュニティって，だいたい2，3年でつぶれるんですよね。つぶれる理由ってやっぱり，常連が幅を利かせるからで。そうすると新しいところに行くっていうのが，いままでの解決策だったんですけど，そこをなんかシステム的にいじって解決できる方法があるかな，というのを，いろいろと試しているんですけど。
携帯電話って，サービスを提供します，サービスを使う人ですっていうのが，完全に分かれていて，使う人が面白いものを創る文化っていうのが，そんなにないんですよね。
ケータイ小説とかだと一人で作れたし，YouTubeもだいたい一人で作品を作ってる。それに対してニコニコ動画の場合，人が作ったものを勝手に変えるのもアリだよね，という文化圏なんですよ。ケータイ小説もYouTubeも，それはあんまりないんですけど。
ニコ動とかも，結局面白いものを作るためにみんな集まっているんだよね，っていうところの価値観だけは共有できてるけど，その方向性，何が面白いかっていうのはそもそも人によって違うから，コントロールしようがない。だけど，面白さを目指している限りはそれでいいよねっていう，最低限の認識だけはカッチリしているっていう。
文化って，最初は面白いで始まって，それがいつの間にかビッグビジネスになっちゃったりするわけじゃないですか。だからたぶん経済はあとからついてくる。いまは文化を創る時期で，そのうち経済が回ってくれば，システム側の人も「回ってるんだからしょうがないよね」と，追従せざるを得ない状況になると思うんですけど。
「2ちゃんねる」のユーザー，月に使う人がだいたい1000万人くらいで，ミクシィがいま800万人とかそれくらいかな？ で，インターネット上で何か時間をつぶそうと思ってつないでいる人が4000万人くらいで，その20％くらいが限界だと思うんですよね。会社で使っていますとか，ネットは単なるツールでテレビが好きとか，人をナンパしているほうが好きとかって人は，いっぱいいるので。そこらへんで，たぶん2000万人くらいがMAXなんじゃないかって思うんですよね。
どちらかというと人材募集ですね。結局サービス作るのは人なので，面白い人が「あ，この会社面白そうだ」と思って，手伝ってくれないと回らないですよね。なのでちゃんと「面白いことやってます」って言わないと。
ユーザーが楽しんでお金を払いたいと思う時期って，たぶん読めないんですよ。どんな優秀な人でも。読めないっていうのと，お金を出した人に収益を返さなきゃいけないっていうジレンマの解決は，やっぱり無理なんですよね。早く回収したいというのと，ここはゆっくり育てなきゃいけません，で，どっちが正しいかというと，株主が正しいのが株式会社のシステムなので，普通はうまく回らないと思うんですよ。
本来は，お金を払ってもいいと思えるぐらいの価値をそこで作るべきだと思うんですよ。なので，広告だけで頑張りますというのは，僕はちょっとどうかなとは思うんですけど。
まあ，大航海時代みたいな（笑）。何隻沈んでも，めぐり合わせの問題じゃ，しょうがないよね，みたいな。
Sometime I asked like this.
“How did you learn your presentation style?”
My answer is this.
“Mr. Garr Reynolds and his blog.”
Presentation Zen
This is the blog.
First time I saw his presentation, I got inspired. Then I started to upgrade my presentation style.
Recently, he published the “Presentation Zen” book. I got it and now I’m reading it. If you’re interested in learning presentations, this one is the best.
Yesterday I went to the monthly event at Apple Store Shinsaibashi called “Design Matters” hosted by Mr. Garr Reynolds. This time, the presenter was him.
In the final part of his presentation, we had time to ask him something. And someone who have a good question can get a book. So I raised my hand and shouted to get a chance.
When I called, I said like this.
“I already have a book but I want it as a present for someone watching my video podcast. I wanna introduce about this book at my show to spread this book!”
Then he said this.
“OK, so what’s your question? :D”
Oops I forgot the important thing. So I asked about practice for presentations.
After my question, I got a new book. Great! Thanks Mr. Garr! Plus, I got his autograph for my own book and a new one! Wow!
Thank you Mr. Garr Reynolds for your great presentation and the best book for me. I’ll spread this book for Japanese people on my video podcast “messa.tv” soon!
Here is more posts by co-host of messa.tv.
presentation zen – iGirl
写真を買うなら iStockphoto – iGirl
I didn’t feel lukewarm till I noticed that I was in lukewarm water. Now I really feel cold cos I noticed that I’m in lukewarm water.
No feedback blog post of the last week. My private was too busy to post it. This is not a substitution but I wrote my feeling of these days.
Reason why I wrote my feeling is a fateful encounter in this week with a men who saw far ahead of the way I’m walking.
Conversation with him, atmosphere aroud him, what he asking. All of these things made me inspired.
On my way home, I can’t stop feel like this.
“I’m in lukewarm water.”
There were lot more chance I didn’t try. I’m afraiding failure. I’m running away from failure and looking for a safety way. In addition, I didn’t learn from failure to cast my eyes from the facts.
Then I acted like not feel any fear.
In my future, I’m going to face tons of walls. Walls I’ve never seen, unsighted. Walls I didn’t see ever.
This is just what I want. I started by myslef to look far ahead of this way. However I’ve closed my eyes with fear.
Can I breakthrough when I hit the wall? Can I learn from it? Can I walk on?
I still have qualms although I’ve noticed that I kept closing my eyes.
However I can’t stop here. Finally I can face the facts. What should I do, what can I do? That’s the thing.
Yes I already know the answer. Just do it. There is no choice.
I remembered one thing. The conversation with my cousin when I was a child.
Me: “I wanna run faster but I can’t run really hard.”
Cousin: “It’s just mean you’re slow runner, aren’t you?”
Got an impact I was. And that was the moment I could recognized I’m a slow runner. I thought I can run faster if I run really hard till this time.
Nothing will happen if I wait for I can do something really hard. Just do it with all my power. Just fail with all my power. Then learn from it with all pain to never forget it.
Go straight to the wall closest to me from here lukewarm water for that purpose.
I know the words “Failure breeds success” or “Learn by mistake”, but I didn’t understand at all.
I’ll fail from now.
Lot’s of people supporting me. It’s encouraging me all the time. I’m sorry I couldn’t work well with that brave. Please keep cheering me.
Hatena will back to Kyoto. It’s great news for us living in Kansai area.
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We wanna move to Kyoto too, close to Hatena.