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Hiro SHINOHARA the founder of messaliberty. Blog about web technologies, favorite Animes, Ruby on Rails, Mac, how to sleep on the office floor from Osaka Japan.

February 11th, 2010

Disadvantage Of Start-ups In Osaka

Osaka is the second largest city of Japan but to be honest, it’s not the best place to start a start-up. Why?

The reason is quite simple. Osaka have not many universities in the central part of the city. I feel it every times when I work with companies in Kyoto or Tokyo.

Posted by Hiro on Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 20:01 | No Comments » |

February 10th, 2010

First Step Of Google Buzz

Kevin posted what he thought on his blog.

Changes/Feature Requests For Google Buzz – Kevin Rose

The big news here isn’t really the functionality of ~~Pownce~~ Buzz, but that Google is boldly integrating this directly into their Gmail product

And he listed up his requests. Google Buzz is definitely in a beta stage but they’ve launched to get opinions and I know they will learn from it. Try the current version and give your opinions through the web.

Posted by Hiro on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 at 11:30 | No Comments » |

February 10th, 2010

Google’s Super Bowl Ad Wasn’t Impressed

Did you see the super bowl ad by Google? Here is the one.

TOUCHDOWN: Google Runs Super Bowl Ad

Looks nice and I love this concept but it wasn’t impressed me so much. Because Google is always running same kind of ads in Japan these days. TOO MANY TIMES.

One of the Japanese version is like this:

And you can find another here.

Google さがぞう

I prefer super bowl one.

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Posted by Hiro on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 at 01:59 | No Comments » |

February 7th, 2010

Dark Side Of Online Media

TechCrunch apologized for one of their intern had asked for compensation in exchange for a blog post. WTF!? This is the worst situation for online media. No one can believe the media if these kind of things happen quite often.

This was remind me that we should watch new media carefully and should not trust too much. But at a same time, I know to be honest is the most important thing for online media.

An Apology To Our Readers

There is a link to the intern’s blog post at the end of the TechCrunch’s post. I had scscribed one of the intern’s blog.

Posted by Hiro on Sunday, February 7th, 2010 at 14:39 | No Comments » |

February 3rd, 2010

Japanese Government Made An Anime For Adults

Go! Go! Election

All of local cities take place coming of age ceremonies every year for 20 years old people in Japan. And at the last one, Japanese government distributed an anime named “Go! Go! Election”. It means 20 years old people got this anime. You can see what’s going on Japanese education system.

From NicoVideo.

From YouTube for people who can’t watch on NicoVideo.

This video became really popular among NicoVideo users and one of an amazing guy ported to NES. This is not just a video, he also published a ROM image for NES.

Posted by Hiro on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 04:11 | No Comments » |

January 23rd, 2010

The Best Performance Ever

LOL. Owner of the MacBook Pro is brave, and Steve Ballmaer perform well. I like this!

Via: Steve Ballmer’s shocking autograph of MacBook Pro caught on video — Engadget

Posted by Hiro on Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 at 02:45 | No Comments » |

January 22nd, 2010

New Year’s Resolutions 2010

Before the end of January, let me post my personal new year’s resolutions of 2010.

1. Take a day off on Wednesday: Means force me to focus on important tasks like writing important code.
2. Don’t studying English: To get something, should stop something. I don’t stop improving it but should not study. Just use, speak, write!
3. Blog more without thinking: Quality is important but need to try more and fail more to get better quality.
4. Write review posts of Movies/Animes: Should not always work. I need to use my time to refresh my brain.
5. Start video blogging: For me, speaking is more comfortable than writing. Buy a good camcoder.

Posted by Hiro on Friday, January 22nd, 2010 at 16:21 | No Comments » |

January 20th, 2010

New Personal Payment Methods May Change The World Economic Rules

This kind of products will make a new tech/business trend, I think. Currently we don’t have any tools to pay small amount of money each other except cash inside your pockets.

What kind of dream you can imagine with this brilliant concept?

Didn’t know but Jack Dorsey joined as co-founder. Sounds cool.

Posted by Hiro on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at 00:29 | No Comments » |

November 19th, 2009

BE CAREFUL When You Remove Tags On Evernote

Evernote

I’m using Evernote as my notes backup system and I trusted Evernote too much. OK, what happened?

I accidentaly removed important snapshot notes on Evernote client like this:

1. Browsed on a ToDo notebook

Step1

2. Clicked a blog tag to remove

Step2

3. Hit the delete key twice (Assidentaly I did like this)

4. Notification message appears

5. OK I know you mean ‘Are you sure you want to remove the tag?’, sure!

6. The ToDo notebook gone

There is no way to restore it even on the web interface. Can’t believe that Evernote doesn’t support a history back feature like Dropbox does. No need to pay for Dropbox to use that useful feature but on the other hand, I’m a paid premium user of Evernote!

Yes that was my fault and the worst thing was I didn’t stock snapshots for backup and realized that I should not put important files only on Evernote.

Posted by Hiro on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 13:56 | 2 Comments » |