Category: Internet

Yesterday I attended the Firefox 3 release in Tokyo. Gen Kanai (Mozilla marketing manager) invited me and Danny to the event. Unfortunately Danny could not attend but Francesco and Peter came with me. We had a great time meeting all kinds of people and eating really good food. Here there is Gen Kanai‘s smile after the launch, I guess he has been working really hard lately and now he is very happy with Firefox 3 success.

What you can see behind Gen‘s head is a screen showing Firefox 3 downloads all around Japan. I recorded a video that shows how Firefox 3 was released and in seconds people all around the country started downloading it. I specially like the bursts around Tokyo and Osaka area.

I love this video!

Yahoo Japan is the number 1 search engine here in Japan. Google was pretty unknown until they released many localized services, for example Google Maps for Japan is really good and people is starting to use it. In Japan you can easily recognize when something is successful when it jumps to the “analog world”. In the old times there where many magazines about Yahoo, since last year there are also magazines about Google services and many books on sale.

By the way, yesterday I stopped by a bookstore and there were books about the iPhone! Is not even released in Japan and they are already trying to sell “Best tricks for your iPhone” kind of books.