I'm the Founder and CEO of messaliberty which is a web application development company based in Osaka Japan. messaliberty is providing an event information platform messa.in, a co-working space TechSpace, a regular meetup OpenCoffee Osaka and more. I'm blogging here mainly about technology and startups, doing consulting for international companies in Japan and foreign companies seeking to promote their products in Japan, and of course building apps. Currently I'm working on hulor.com. More about me here.
When the first time I heard about the strange name ifttt (If This Then That) and the concept, I just thought it was an automated backup service with simple UI. But after a while, I signed up and played with it then loved it very much.
Here is an obvious thing. Foursquare and its clones including Japan made clones have to be happy with the Facebook’s decision about their location service.
Anyway, they must have ideal strategies to beat their enemies. There’re a lot of clones here in Japan now. A big difference between Foursquare and Japan made clones is mobile clients. Most of Japan made clones support typical Japanese mobile phones unlike iOS/Android devices. It means they’re based on Japanese mobile phone culture. This difference is making some innovative movement right now. They get some ideas from typical Japanese mobile phones.
As you may know, it’s obviously important to focus on single task at a time if you try the GTD way. But it’s not easy to implement the concept in our real life. We now have too many projects, tasks, things need to consider. How can we handle it?
The Space theme is stunning. I can’t stop thinking about better themes for blog sites since I met with the theme. I’m considering to drop sidebars from all sites, and realized how typography is important to improve user experiences.
It’s difficult to make perfect themes like the Space but I updated my own theme a bit. Here are what I did this morning.
I was surprised when I heard a news that Facebook decided to shutdown its check-in feature. But at a same time, I thought it was a good news for me. Why?