Somehow, it doesn't work to publish the picture directly on the moblog.

Justin Hall was there as well.

Gen* made a party tonight. It was at Jake's place. Thank you both guys - it was great! Next time we make the conference like this (^_^).

So yes, it was a lot of fun and I had several interesting discussions with Michiko Nomura (on the left), Carsten Schwesig, Eduardo Sciammarella, Emi Hamano and Charles C. Huang - all these guys and gals are from Sony! Amazing.

* Gen is the guy on the left, next to Jane and Justin

So I have a J-Phone now, thanks to Joi. I still have to figure out how to moblog with it. Well, I probably need the help of Sembo and Yae.

I also met Pete who is a bit more jetlagged then me as he just came over from England today. Well I didn't have my laptop with me otherwise I could have stayed in their company. Too bad:(

Anyway what Joi said about tomorrow's conference sounded very, very interesting. So be there.

PS: Joi also did take pictures:
Pete, me at Neoteny.

Sembo san and Yae san have a temple just 30 metres away from their house. I just had to step out of the door, climb the staircase and then make this picture.

Monorom showed me a lot of computer-drawn maps from her Tokyo friends. Well, the charm of a hand-drawn "chizu" won't go away either.

Btw there is a very cool chapter in Roland Barthes' book Empire of Signs about handdrawn maps. The maps he published were also somewhat unusal.

I slept very well, just a bit too long - probably due to my Jetlag;) So far I very much like the climate here. I like when it is "mushi atsui", and not so dry as in Europe.

3G Phones Let Time-Strapped Families See Each Other Every Day
This is an interesting article by Tim Clark about the new video phones which are already available in Japan. After reading the article, I think that this "intimate" behaviour makes much sense for some businessman who want to keep in touch with their family.

But as blogging shows in the west, it is well possible that people would also like to archive their videos to get some kind of living memory - password protected or not. And this could be interesting for families as well, especially when they are dispersed all over the globe.

The article also speaks about the killer content for these new 3 G Phones and not surprisingly it is dating services and porn. We all know now about the attraction of sites like Mein Bild... If not, read this.

... the Love Hotel Moblogging Conference.

Well at the moment I just have no picture phone that is working and as I said, it's already 1:27 in the morning here (compared with 18:27 back in Zurich).

Btw: there's another pre-conference: 24 Hours of Moblogging. Via Mobitopia

This is Sembo san. Tomorrow he and Yae will help their friends for La Nuit Japonesque at Super Deluxe. See also japanimprov.com/myagi.

Just a day later, I will have my presentation at the same place. Funny, isn't it? Or - well done, Miss Monorom;)