Tokyo Nitro

Posted by Mike Walsh

11/21/07 2:10 PM

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I just got back from a quick trip to Tokyo. I love going to Japan. In some ways it feels like the last truly alien place on the planet. The outside world is reflected, but always through a distinctly local filter. That applies equally to innovation as it does to food.

Joi Ito put it well. In an interview with Tim O'Reilly at the Tokyo Web2.0 conference, he observed that big web ideas were typically absorbed into Japan, digested, and then transformed into a mobile context. Its more than just flashy handsets. I saw much greater use of high tech devices and mobile TV services on subways in Seoul than i did in Tokyo. But there is an undeniable mobile internet ecosystem in Japan that you really don't see anywhere else in the world.

Anyway, enough geek talk. For the true sybarites out there - you might enjoy my latest video on the Modelux network.

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