this piece called “la campanella” I found in youtube is the one my music teacher at junior high desparately wanted to share with the class using vcr in my days. Just wonder how the music teachers around the world now are utilizing youtube for the class.
one of my favorite songs
0 Comments Published February 8th, 2009 in champaine, frankie crocker, wbls.i believe this song is still played at the end of Champaine’s Quiet Storm II on 107.5 WBLS in NY, as her ex-boss, the late, Frankie Crocker did when he was still on the show. Just found it in youtube. (sorry if the content won’t be available by the time you will read it now.)
this slide was created by umair haque dated 2005. simply becuase today reading wwgd reminded me of this slide and wanted to read it. but since i don’t have power point installed on my laptop (to save disk space) here is the alternative nice way to read it without installing it.
Interestingly enough, new Google Japan seems to pursue the opposite of WWGD. Branding ad, Proprietary, owning distributing , owning content, .. following exactly what it took Yahoo Japan to be No.1 portal in the digital world in Japan. My guess is it is the matter of time and Japan is probably about 5 years or so behind in many aspects.
24/11/2008, originally uploaded by kenjimori.
Every time i got this kind of promotion voucher, i dispose it. Why? Because it will make my wallet or pass case thicker, which I hate.
So this time I took the picture of it, and plan to bring this pic showing 10% discount voucher to the sushi shop and see if they will apply the discount.
It’s a paper world we have get used to this and that kind of sales promotion.
But, now everybody has a cell phone with camera, and many of them have mobile email addresses (especially in case of Japan). It’s you and I who have not changed the way we promote. All the necessary systems are in place. It is us marketers who have not think about it deeply. And it is time to change.
its on and on.
Twitter banner ads in JP UI in IE only
0 Comments Published April 24th, 2008 in Japan, ie, japanize, twitter, ui.Now Twitter comes with the banner ads in the upper right corner when you use IE from Japan IP address (presumably).
This is a great experiment for twitter how the banner ads work. However, I personally don’t like it makes it Japanese UI whenever it finds the user from Japanese IP address (which is quite common practice though). The same exact mistake google makes.
Update: They allow you t0 choose language in the settings. When you choose English, Japanese UI and banner both disappeared,which is nice.
Google Map de Soba 蕎麦
2 Comments Published March 1st, 2008 in google map, shirogane, toshian, 利庵, 白金.Yet another google map de series, namely Google Map de Soba, as a starter, we visited toshian soba in shirogane takanawa, I’d highly recommend you to visit this very authentic soba place in central Tokyo. when you have time in Tokyo.
OK, this is another Google Map de series, namely, Google Map de Sento. Sento is a Japanese style public bath, see wikipedia for more. Sentoing is one of my pastime obviously, though I don’t have time these days.
google map de wifi
2 Comments Published February 15th, 2008 in FON, docomo, google, google map, mzone, netvibes, wifi, wireless, yahoo+BB, 公衆無線.here is wifi access points I use (at least once).View Larger MapPlease give me an email at kenji [at] kenjimori [dot] com if you can collaborate on this Google Map de wifi access. I will send you an invitation.
Softbank Mobile 学割 student discount offers at 0 yen base charge
0 Comments Published February 11th, 2008 in Japan, SON-san, au, docomo, gmail, google, mobile, mobile+gmail, pricing, softbank, ソフトバンク.softbank mobile finally started offering student discount at zero yen for base charge with tiered pricing for packet usage (quite low compard with otherwise).
Quite an audacious move. They are achieving No.1 position net increase over the past 9 months in a row, ahead of docomo and au. I myself experienced the similar kind of dynamism of pricing when i was a pricing manager at one air express company in Japan. The pressure is there essentially when you already have a certain amount of revenue, just like docomo or au, accumulated over the long period of time, It’s just damn hard to compete on price, for especially the top management just can’t make a decision on revenue dilution.
It also adds a good customer segmentation scheme just by pricing.
