Thanks for all the support for the year 2008.

Please keep in touch, and I’ll be posting more entries on this blog for the next year!

Have Happy New Year 2009!

Since I lately got my driver’s lisence, I bought a new car navigation, Pioneer AirNavi.

Before this one, I actually bought this tiny portable device from another manufacture however it was broken from the first day, so I had to return.

Portable Navigation Devices (PND) is getting hot in Japan in 2008 for it’s cheap price compared to standard in dash models which cost more than $1000-$2000.

With AirNavi, I can easily get real-time traffic from other users and Honda car owners as well as surf Internet to receive local information (restaurants, weather, and more). Although I haven’t used it yet the moment I’m writing this, I can’t wait to try this.

My friend Andrew lately posted a mindmap of his activities of social media on his blog. And it’s been featured on ReadWriteWeb.

Visualizing Social Media Fatigue

He used mind map to draw relations of his activities and data flows among major social networking sites like LinkedIn, XING, Ecademy, Facebook, etc.

This is a great work, and I recommend you to take a look on the map. Files are available on his site in PDF, PNG, XML, and more.

Andrew is a well known entrepreneur in Japan. JapanEvents.net is one of his sites showing business events around Tokyo. He also hosts Tokyo 2.0 and several other entrepreneur meetups.

I’ve been mainly using Ecademy, Linkedin, and XING for online business and professional networking, however, recently I’ve started to focus also on Viadeo, a French professional networking service.

Since its renewal sometime ago, a few multi language options were added, but I still see a problem when accepting other member’s request to connect, or messages, the auto-reply message is in French although language configuration set to English.

I just hope Viadeo would add English or other language version of auto reply messages.

The Skoll Foundation has redesigned the social entrepreneur community, SocialEdge using Plone.

Its old site was difficult to navigate, and contents were no organized well, so this change is very nice.

SocialEdge is one of the biggest community for social entrepreneurs, so if you haven’t opened an account, I’d recommend you do so now.

Are you an entrepreneur in Japan?

My friend, Andrew of CVP has developed an event portal, where you can find schedules for business networking events and study groups for ICTs and web.

Do check it.

http://www.japanevents.net/

For those who wanted tablet pc running Mac, here’s an option.

This new product is called, ModBook offers tablet pc functionality on Mac OS X (is it?). I’ve once thought of using Linux tablet pc by Lycoris (now Mandriva) on my Toshiba Portege 3500, but this new ModBook looks cool, and since I wanted to try Mac, it’s on my purchase list.