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The bursting of the dot com bubble is the latest cliche about the
US internet industry, but how is this affecting the Japanese
internet scene? What's happening now and where is it going to
go from here? Listen to the expert views and put your questions to
the TPC's knowledgeable panel:
- Tim Romero, Founder of Vanguard
- Business at Usual? - The real winners in Japan's
e-business revolution
- Tim Clark, Senior Manager, Strategy, Ion Global and
author of the Japan
Internet Report
- SIPS Survivor - An inside look at the Strategic
Internet Professional Services (SIPS) industry in Japan
- Tom Foley, Chairman & C.E.O., Silver Egg
Technology
- Taking it Personal - Using AI to respond individually
to online customers
After introducing themselves and their companies, and giving a
short presentation of their specialist themes, the panelists will
take questions from the audience so come prepared to fire away.
Audience questions will drive what is sure to be and insightful and
informative evening.
The meetings are held in the basement of The Tokyo Union
Church on Omotesando Dori, a short walk from the A-1 exit of the
Omotesando subway station on the Ginza, Hanzomon, and Chiyoda Lines.
The entrance is through the parking area at the side of the church.
Members free,
non-members Y1000 at the door. Doors open about 6:30, meeting starts
at 7PM.
Upcoming Meetings:
- October 4th
- Annual General Meeting--Elections
Executive Committee Meeting
The next Executive Committee Meeting will be held Monday evening,
September 10th from 7 to 9 PM at Little Euro Bar & Kitchen
(formerly The Black Lion Pub) in Meguro. All club members are
invited to attend, discuss, and help your club.
A job fair for Tokyo's Professionals
Hosted by the Tokyo PC Users Group and two other prominent Tokyo
based professional groups WIT
'01 will be the career networking event of the year. Sponsors
are innovative employers looking for engineers, project managers,
web producers, web designers and sales, marketing, media, operations
and business development specialists. Professionals from all these
fields are encouraged to attend -- even if they are not actively
searching for a new position. The evening will also feature keynote
speakers addressing some of the hottest topics in the Tokyo IT
market today.
What Have You Missed?
August 2001 Meeting
Martin Ott, Co-Founder and CEO of Eken K.K.
described his company's web sites: Eken, a consumer
community that lets its users share their experience and
opinion on any product or service and Moterukai
which is a simple and fun entertainment site where you can
flip through other people's pictures and rate their looks.
Richard Ochero, organizer
of PC's for Africa Campaign, described his plan for sending
old and unwanted PC's in Japan to Uganda. He urged the
audience to spread the word and help his plan to become a
project. In particular, he is looking for contacts at
companies or organizations that are dumping PCs in bulk which
would make quantity shipment practical.
July 2001 Meeting
Technocraft demonstrated Roboword a
no click translation tool. People at the meeting had
the opportunity to buy Roboword V5 at a special price.
The meeting also featured an auction of members' surplus
equipment, software, and books allowing a lot of fine junk to
change hands.
June 2001 Meeting
fusionOne
demonstrated their Internet Sync technology that allows
sharing all of your various PIM data across your office and
home PCs, handheld PDAs, mobile phone, and web desktops.
Shin'nichi Electronics demonstrated the Castlewood
ORB removeable media drive that holds up to 2.2 GB on
cartridge. They also showed of the tiny USB ThumbDrive
and gave away two to lucky members. |
May 2001 Meeting
Todd Rudick wowed the audience with a demonstraton of http://www.tokyopc.org/go?to=Rikai.
His web site serves as a web mediator that can transform a
normal web page into one that includes pop-up boxes containing
Japanese or English word translations appear when you hold
your mouse over the words you don't know. Rikai.com also
includes a number of Japanese study tools.
Professor Jim Breen of
Monash University described his work with underlying
dictionary projects, including EDICT and
the WWWJDIC server with glossing and Kanji lookup and study
tools and his future plans for the dictionaries.
April 2001 Meeting
Mark
Devlin of Crisscross KK described his new venture into
producing an online English newspaper called Japan
Today. Australian entrepreneur Terrie
Lloyd described how he is building LINC Media
by finding common elements in Daijob (a jobs site), J@pan Inc.
(foreign investment), and Layer 8 (software
infrastructure).
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