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Mobile Monday Tokyo Anniversary, Sep 13

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:06:02 +0000

The MoMo Tokyo community, along with Tokyo 2.0 & Startup Dating groups, will hold its 6th anniversary at Super Deluxe on Monday September 13.

They have arranged presenters from Glam Media, PayPal and Intellectual Ventures, under the theme of “Commercializing Innovation”. Mark your calendar and bring along a few friends for beer & birthday cake!

Masato (Bud) Uesu, CTO Glam Media Japan, CTO International Glam Media, Inc.

Glam Media is the pioneer and global leader of Vertical Media, a revolutionary new media model that combines our flagship properties with curated publisher sites and their passionate, engaged audiences. By pairing our 1400+ publishers worldwide with our own large and growing properties: Glam.com for women; Brash.com for men; and Tinker.com for real-time conversations on social media sites across the Web, our vertical media model enables premium brands to connect with millions of passionate audiences online.

Takeshi Amano, Integration Manager, PayPal Japan

PayPal is the faster, safer way to pay and get paid online. The service allows members to send money without sharing financial information, with flexibility to pay using their account balances, bank accounts, credit cards or promotional financing. With more than 87 million active accounts in 190 markets and 24 currencies around the world, PayPal enables global ecommerce. The company’s open payment platform, PayPal X, allows developers to build innovative payment applications on multiple platforms and devices.

Nicholas Gibson, Director of Product Development, Intellectual Ventures

Founded in 2000, Intellectual Ventures (IV) is the global leader in the business of invention. IV collaborates with leading inventors, partners with pioneering companies, and invests both expertise and capital in the process of invention. IV’s mission is to energize and streamline an invention economy that will drive innovation around the world. http://www.intellectualventures.com

Event details:
Date: Monday, 13 Sept. 2010
Open Hours: 19:00 ? 23:00
Presentations: 19:30 ? 20:30
Networking: 20:30 ? Close
Venue: Super Deluxe :: GMAP
Fee: 2,000jpy includes two drink tickets

Please Register in Advance

MoMo Tokyo

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:07:08 +0000

The Mobile Monday Tokyo community is getting together for a Mobile Summer Matsuri on Monday night, August 2.

We have arranged a collaboration between the team at MoMo Tokyo, Jimdo and Little Delirium and prepared the following special offer:
- a sponsored poken at the special price of 1,000 yen (instead of 2,480 yen)
- free battery replacements for existing poken users
- a free half-size plate of belgian fries if you bring your poken (or buy one new)

We’re looking forward to see you again soon!
Please note that the event will take place at the terrace outside so we are crossing our fingers that it will not rain that evening.

Date: Monday, 2 August 2010 : 18:30 ? 22:00
Venue: Little Delirium Cafe ? Shinjuku :: MAP
Admission: Free ? Please Register in Advance

Meanwhile, you can follow the MoMo team on Twitter or Linkedin and keep tabs via The Mob Rulz flash eZine.

Poken featured on front page of Nikkei Shimbun

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:22:58 +0000

On April 7, a reporter and cameraman from the Nikkei Shimbun attended the Business in Japan event. They interviewed several guests and asked about their experience with poken. More specifically they wanted to know how poken is used in a business environment, for professional purposes.

Business in Japan is a community with more than 10,000 members on LinkedIn, one of the most popular global social networks to share business contacts.

Last year Rob Pereyda, the founder and manager of the group, started organizing networking events so the group members can also meet with each other in real life. The event earlier this month drew almost 1,000 attendees. Given the international character of the event and the broad range of industries represented by the participants Poken Japan acted as a sponsor in collaboration with JExpert.jp and the organizing team. As mentioned in an earlier blog post the raffle participants were offered included pokens and one of them will win an iPad offered by JExpert.

On April 15 the article was published, on the front page of the evening edition. We have received a lot of very positive reactions since!

We would like to thank everyone for participating in the interviews, especially @ipodgasuki-san and @masakawamukai-san.

Poken featured on front page of Nikkei Shimbun Evening edition on April 15

Poken everywhere - Hi Four! (Photo by Leon Tsunehiro Yu-Tsu Tai)

Rob Pereyda (organizer BiJ), Tom Van de Weghe (VRT tv news) and Leon Tsunehiro Yu-Tsu Tai (picture)

Some blog posts:

Poken.com server maintenance

admin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:33:32 +0000

Picture by mayhem @ Flickr

A quick note to announce that the poken.com servers will be down for maintenance on Friday night (midnight). The actual downtime is expected to last about two hours and will run from Saturday morning 0:00 until around 2:00 (Japan time).

This means that everything should be back up and running by the time we wake up for coffee on Saturday morning.
We would like to apologize in advance for the inconvenience.

Stay tuned!

iPad x Poken @ Business in Japan Night

admin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:23:44 +0000

We are very excited to announce a tie up between Poken Japan, JExpert and the BiJ team at the next Business in Japan Night.

Only 1,000 yen to participate in the raffle and you can win an iPad offered by JExpert.jp, a bilingual project marketplace and an online workplace for clients to connect with qualified experts to get projects done.

On top of this chance to win an iPad you will immediately receive a sponsored pokenSpark (valued @ 2,480 yen) so you can meet, connect and stay in touch with the other attendees!!!

How to participate

Buy your raffle ticket from one of the JExpert campaign girls at the venue. Start using your Poken right away. After you get home you can register your Poken and JExpert account (make your profile public and/or post a project). The iPad winner will be announced at the end of May 2010. Check rules and conditions of the iPad give-away on JExpert.jp

Come and join us

Come and join us at the Shin-Marunouchi Building, April 7, 2010, 8:00PM to 11:00PM!

How do you bring the openness and low barrier to entry of the Internet to real life networking? How do you create an event where people can come and make it what they want? How does all of this make for a good time? Business in Japan, in conjunction with Poken Japan, JExpert.jp, Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Building Management Co., Ltd., and EGG JAPAN will show you with Business in Japan Night!

Event Details

WHO: Anyone
WHEN: Wednesday April 7th, 8:00PM to 11:00PM
WHERE: Shin-Marunouchi Building 7F (whole floor), 1-5-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
WHY: To make connections
WEBSITE: http://www.businessinjapan.jp/night/

Organized by the Business in Japan team: Rob Pereyda, Jason Ball, Patrick Niessen, Vince Shortino
10,000+ members on LinkedIn. Join us here!

How to Attend

Method 1: Pre-Register on LinkedIn - FREE!
Method 2: Just show up! - ALSO FREE!

About JExpert.jp
JExpertp is a bilingual project marketplace and an online workplace for clients to connect with qualified experts to get projects done.
http://www.jexpert.jp

About Business in Japan
BIJ is the larget networking group in the world dedicated to English-speaking professionals looking to do business in, with, and/or related to Japan.
http://www.businessinjapan.jp/

Thanks to http://www.goodpeople.jp/ for coordinating

Amazon is hiring

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:33:05 +0000

Amazon Data Services was launched a few months ago to promote and support Amazon’s web services here in Japan.
As part of their marketing effort they decided to create an original poken which is being given out to attendees at conferences, speakers at study groups and other events…

Not only the cap was specialy made, also the Poken.com website has been customized with a banner, default card background and contacts for all these AWS pokens.

Please contact us at info@poken.jp if you are considering an original poken for your event or campaign.

Last but not least, Amazon Web Services（AWS） is hiring!
Currently open postions include the following：
- Enterprise Sales Manager
- Technical Evangelist
- Developer Support Operations Manager
More career information at Amazon can be found 詳しくはhere.

Poken Pulse available at Bic Camera stores

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:01:06 +0000

Great news! Poken Pulse is now available at the following Bic Camera stores:

Shibuya East -

1st customized Poken Pulse in Japan

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:17:11 +0000

The first customized Poken Pulse was presented today!

KDDI Web Communications, in partnership with Google Japan, announced at a press conference on January 13 that their server hosting service CPI is expanding its lineup of services. From today on they offer a Hybrid Hosting solution linking their standard web servers to Google’s “Google Apps Premier Edition” service.

All attendees at the press conference received an original Poken Pulse with the KDDI and CPI logos imprinted.

Details of the service can be found here (Japanese only).

Follow the CPI team on Twitter: cpiadjp

Poken Pulse was used not simply as a give-away gadget. Inside the Pulse’s 2GB of USB memory the attendees could find the press release, logo files, and other useful documentation. On top of that everyone received a little card which allows them to win several very nice prizes.

Being one of the leading companies riding the Social Media wave, the KDDI Web Communications PR people invited everyone to tweet during the press conference using hashtag #kwc. It was awesome to see the real-time stream of messages that followed.

For more information regarding the Poken Spark and Pulse customization options you can contact us here

More examples can be found on the Poken customization overview page.

Happy New Year!

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:02:59 +0000

A new year’s card from the Poken Japan team…

EU Gateway Programme report

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:25:40 +0000

As mentioned in our previous blog post the [ EU Gateway Programme - ICT Trade Fair was held on December 2-3. Place to be was the splendid Hilton Hotel in Shinjuku.

We’re happy to announce that the trade fair went very well and we would like to thank everyone who visited us. We really hope you had a chance to meet with interesting companies and who knows sometime in the not too distant future we’ll see several of these companies enter the Japanese market with their products and services.

Of course, we offered our pokens with an original EU-Gateway cap, not only to the visitors but also to all participating companies and staff members. Just a great way for everyone to meet in real life, connect and stay in touch online through the power of Poken.