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Re: A Quick Note on iPhone in Japan (or iPhone vs. Softbank)

lancesh — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:59:02 -0000

Good points swint! Yes, you may be right that only using search to spot trends may be faulty for a a lot of reasons. That's also true that people may have enough info elsewhere on Softbank. But they can certainly get info on iPhone at the same place (ie. go to a Softbank shop). I think my point is that people search for things when they are new and they want to know more about them. And in this case, they are more interested in iPhone than the Softbank, the company providing the service. What this seems to say is that in this case the product brand speaks to people more than the company brand. Actually, almost the exact same trend can be seen when I compared iPhone to Apple in Japan: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=iPhone...

Thanks for your thoughts, swint!

Re: The Japanese – Wannabe Entrepreneurs

lancesh — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:25:31 -0000

Hi again Gerry.

That's good to know my MBA will be valued back in the US when I head home in the future. I agree with you about working for an international corp here to leverage my background and MBA. I'm actually currently at Amway Japan and am lucky to have a few interesting projects in the pipeline. Thanks for again for all your advice. You must make a good coach!

Lance

Re: The Japanese – Wannabe Entrepreneurs

lancesh — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:51:30 -0000

Hi Gerry.

I appreciate your viewpoint on Silicon Valley vs. Japan. I suppose the main difference is the size of the payoff if one succeeds as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. The amount of VC money appears to be proportional to the payoff as well - I've heard $2M being on the high side here, although I'm not an expert.

Thanks for the advice on the MBA blog, that's a good idea. Do you get a sense that having an MBA means anything to employers in Silicon Valley these days? I considering returning to the Bay Area in a couple of years and wondering about the value of the degree.

Best,
Lance

Re: The Seven Gates of Hell

czar — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:41:12 -0000

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Re: The Seven Gates of Hell

czar — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:36:12 -0000

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Re: Starting a Social Media Forum & How Talk About Money Heats It Up

lancesh — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:59:03 -0000

Thanks Jim. It seems to be picking up.

Re: Should President Obama Continue to Use Social Media?

lancesh — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:04:28 -0000

That was a really good description which taught me a lot Paul. Thanks for that. Why wouldn't he use the Chinese QQ.com if he wanted to communicate to Chinese. Also, alwahy.com seems to be an Islamic social media portal he could use.

Re: Should President Obama Continue to Use Social Media?

lancesh — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:22:12 -0000

Well, I didn't even know people were using it still. When you say Asia Paul, do you mean China or Southeast Asia? It's not popular in Japan is it? Also if he wanted to be internationally focused, wouldn't he want to use Bebo too? Big European and South American user base.

Re: Starting a Social Media Forum & How Talk About Money Heats It Up

lancesh — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:47:34 -0000

Yes, me too. Paul said it like it is..."get your hands dirty"..."take back the web".
And Kiyoshi, your mentor's words really resonated with me! I'd like to add: "keep collaborating" to that list.

Re: Starting a Social Media Forum & How Talk About Money Heats It Up

lancesh — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:14:30 -0000

Certainly Paul. I think we know full well that money isn't the only thing or we'd become stock brokers and then we'd really be in trouble. ;-) But I think the money question appealed to people's pragmatism and had way more urgency then say a question about Twitter trends. It seemed to work but don't know if it's sustainable.

Re: Poll: Do You Ever Get Frustrated By Twitter?

lancesh — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:08:37 -0000

Now that's a good question. What do you say gang?

Re: Poll: Do You Ever Get Frustrated By Twitter?

lancesh — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:12:33 -0000

That is certainly true about the interesting people!

Re: If you only had one social site

lancesh — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:06:04 -0000

An interesting idea Paul. One easy way would be just to create a FriendFeed group that we all subscribe to. But I believe you may be thinking of something more custom made, right? Ponderous posts to wordpress so that might be one way to control the presentation a bit more...say 3 columns of feeds for each expert.. Just an idea.

Re: If you only had one social site

lancesh — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:37:25 -0000

Oh sorry. I misread that! I will definitely try to make it then. I will also advertise it for you on Japan Social Media Marketers for you. BTW, are you a member of JSMM yet? Might want to check it out too: http://japansocialmediamarketers.ning.com/

Re: If you only had one social site

lancesh — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:56:34 -0000

I'm still learning my way around FF but liking it a lot. I really like how you can so easily share the same item with multiple groups. The killer social RSS feed.

Re: If you only had one social site

lancesh — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:56:20 -0000

Cool. No I didn't see that. So sorry to miss it. I was in Osaka anyway but maybe I can make the next one. Great idea Ken. Will you continue to run them?

Re: Poll: Who Do You Twitter With?

lancesh — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:08:19 -0000

Andrew,
Thanks for the good feedback. I feel like you're stalking me tonight ;-)
Yep, you're right about the survey missing an "other". Oops. Yeah, those two options sound good. The trouble with constructing these polls is anticipating all the possible factors contributing to user behavior. I guess the best approach if you want to do it like a pro would be to do a test survey and see what comments come back and then do an official run.

Re: If you only had one social site

lancesh — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:20:25 -0000

Hey Andrew. I can see why you like both ping and plaxo as they save time and give you a bang for the buck in getting your content out. For smaller scale reasons I suscribed to posterous.com today to be able to send photos from my mobile to twitter, facebook and flickr simultaneously (can do wordpress too). FB and LI prove to be quite popular, coming in second and third above. I suppose slightly less people use social media for professional networking as they do for lifestreaming. FB also allows profession and lifestreaming to blend pretty well. Thanks for your input on media usage. Lets meet up soon!
Lance

Re: If you only had one social site

lancesh — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:39:15 -0000

Ken, that was really a well informed response. Thanks for explaining LiveJournal to me, I will have to check it out. The last part you said about twitter vs. blogging and being able to generate value for yourself is a good point. There is actually much debate between Michael Arrington (Techcrunch) and Robert Scoble around this which places M favring blogs and S pioneering twitter and FriendFeed. It's a good debate. Also here's a post about how to use Twitter as a tool you might like: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/12/how-to-use-...
Would like to meet up with you soon sometime for a beer and further discussion. What do you say?
Lance

Re: Easy-Peasy Ubuntu Linux NFS File Sharing

czar — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:12:10 -0000

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Re: Exporting FriendFeed Subscribers

czar — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:31:44 -0000

@svartling, Your welcome. Some day we will have to turn this friendfeed export process into a script...

Re: LibraryThing's Top Unread Books

czar — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:42:53 -0000

Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn, is one book that I recommend too.

Re: disqus_url?

czar — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:31:17 -0000

Indeed, any revamp of disqus_url would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Re: Lifestream.fm Relaunches with New Features and Adobe Air App

czar — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:29:49 -0000

@tinythoughts, thanks for the LifeStream.fm invite code. I'm at http://lifestream.fm/czar

Re: Identi.ca == Twitter Linux OR Twitter Torrent

czar — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:53:17 -0000

@Detect, Yes! I would love to find an excuse to run Laconica... Yet I'm going to wait a little and see if anyone releases a better mod.