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Re: Robert @ Sanzalone | Sayonara Nagoya Japan

AndrewShuttleworth — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:26:43 -0000

Congrats on your new chapter Robert!

2009 has been a year of change and evolution for many people I know and I'm sure your move to Canada wil be exciting.

I have no doubt we'll stay in touch using whatever the latest nifty web service is :-)

Re: Robert @ Sanzalone | Sayonara Nagoya Japan

megururioh — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:04:34 -0000

Dear Robert,

I am very surprized to hear from you to leave Nagoya.

I enjeyed a lot with you and Fumiko.

Please keep in touch.

Meguru

Re: Robert @ Sanzalone | Sayonara Nagoya Japan

Paul Papadimitriou — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:51:10 -0000

Dear Robert, as said in an earlier tweet, I'm wishing you all the best for that new adventure of yours. It has been a real pleasure meeting you in Nagoya and enjoying some great talks with you.
I'm sure you'll find a lot of great opportunities in that other side of the world and I will be very eager to keep on reading about this next chapter.

Best of luck. Godspeed.

Re: Robert @ Sanzalone | Sayonara Nagoya Japan

pacificIT — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:03:43 -0000

Thanks again for your post Stephen at http://bit.ly/QwTUg. As I've mentioned to you, I truly have enjoyed connecting with you online all these years. My prayers are with you to make it over here. Don't give up! Perhaps you won't make it before I leave but you WILL be here one day soon. I have faith in that. Looking forward to our continued friendship.. both online and in person.

Re: Robert @ Sanzalone | Sayonara Nagoya Japan

pacificIT — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:59:03 -0000

Thanks very much Kirk. I'm looking forward to reading your adventures when you get over here! Hope to make it down to your wonderful country one day soon! Cheers!

Re: Robert @ Sanzalone | Sayonara Nagoya Japan

pacificIT — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:55:03 -0000

Thanks Scott. It's a shame we didn't get together when we had the chance earlier this year. Certainly will be staying in touch and wishing you all the best!

Re: Robert @ Sanzalone | Sayonara Nagoya Japan

Scott (すこっと) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:53:03 -0000

Wow, pretty surprised to hear you're leaving the promised land and heading back to Canada. I sincerely wish you the best of luck in Canada, and hope you and your family live long and prosperous. How long before you actually get on a plane and fly back to Vancouver?

Re: Robert @ Sanzalone | Sayonara Nagoya Japan

Jamaipanese — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:58:35 -0000

I can only imagine what a great experience this was for you. Good luck with all your future endeavors and I am sure there might be more of japan in your future.

Re: Robert @ Sanzalone | SMAP "Doin' The Locomotion" for Softbank

kainoa — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:58:15 -0000

the making of the commercial looks like SMAP had alot of fun doing it
http://japansugoi.com/wordp...

Re: Robert @ Sanzalone | Reconciling Hiroshima and Nagasaki - to myself

DavidFeng — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:21:13 -0000

More and more, war is simply not the way to get biz done. "Fat Man" and "Little Boy", as the two bombs were so codenamed, had a reason to exist and did their thing. But who gave them reason to exist? Was that a fair and reasonable reason? Could one side not have ceded? Difficult to do in a war setting. Difficult to do when one or all sides are in Enraged Mode.

Let's not just hope for no World War III — let's hope for no more wars, period. It's been sung about (as in "War is Over") and all we need to do now is just to flat out reject war and aggression in any form it may take. (Much easier said that done, I admit!)

In the meantime, may peace be with us all.

Re: Robert@Sanzalone | My shock of Buzz Bishop and what it means to me pe

rickmartin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:13:25 -0000

Media is changing and shifting, and this kinda thing -- as unfortunate as it is -- is bound to happen. Lots of people are losing jobs in traditional media.

But of course, the silver lining in all this is that talented people can now continue to push out content without having a radio station or newspaper or magazine, etc.

As long as he adjusts he'll be fine.

Re: Robert@Sanzalone | The definition of an ENTREPRENEUR in Japan

glenyan — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:56:59 -0000

Aren't there a lot of things here that make running a business here much easier though? If not only the fact that employees tend to work longer hours for little or no pay and with no complaint?

Re: Robert@Sanzalone | The definition of an ENTREPRENEUR in Japan

glenyan — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:54:38 -0000

This is an interesting distinction between the Japanese and non-Japanese entrepreneurs. The Japanese as a collective society have never tried to gain their own individual liberties, yet in the past 150 years such freedoms have been imposed on them twice.

I think this is a great point though, the Japanese definition of the word seems much more literal.

Re: Robert@Sanzalone | The definition of an ENTREPRENEUR in Japan

JeromeR — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:39:16 -0000

Fascinating. I think the Japanese-expat experience on the Canadian side of the pond is equally disjointed, if my recent classmate's ethnographic research into Japanese mothers in Vancouver is any indication. She found that Japanese and Canadian mothers at local playgrounds and preschools have different ideas about how to discipline a child. Obviously, cultural differences start with children, and grow from there. ;)

Re: Robert@Sanzalone | The definition of an ENTREPRENEUR in Japan

bebopdesigner — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:55:25 -0000

Wow that's impressive! (and odd)

Re: Robert@Sanzalone | The definition of an ENTREPRENEUR in Japan

tokyoterri — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:09:32 -0000

Well said. It's a real struggle here.

but, we persevere - the rewards, when they come, will be all the sweeter. My feeling is that if I can become successful here, going back home and running a business will be a piece of sweet mochi:-)

sigh, my name seems to have broken disgust, I mean disqus, have to go tweak it again...

Re: Robert@Sanzalone | RT @tokyotopia @littlestgator Whaaaat! Are you ser

lshannon — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:22:25 -0000

Hopefully we will rise from the ashes in the near-ish future.

Re: Robert@Sanzalone | Brightkite - Do You NEED To Know Where I Am?

Alexcrabb — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:02:10 -0000

It is important to allow it to work with Twitter - I also think integrating with every social network and allowing users to upload content is important. IRL Connect is a presence-based social network that just launched its public beta last week - you can try it out at www.irlconnect.com IRL is integrated with Facebook and Twitter so you can see all your friends on the map but you can also put digital content on the map (Google Maps). IRL Connect’s goal is to take all that information from both the Web and mobile, including people and content and give it geographical context (already 2500 users and 112,000 geo locations).
IRL has implemented Google Street View to give even more valuable presence to content and people and you can upload live streaming video and chat from your mobile via Bambuser http://www.bambuser.com, share digital content such as photos, videos (Youtube) and news by posting from their mobile phone directly to IRL Connect, and users can show their precise location through Wi-Fi positioning.

It's cool! try it out.

Re: Robert@Sanzalone | Getting ready for WordCamp Tokyo 2009

Naoko McCracken — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:06:39 -0000

Hi Robert,

It was nice meeting you (though briefly) at WordCamp Tokyo & Tokyo 2.0 event.
Thanks for your feedback - we also found (after the fact) having an event in April wasn't good idea; March is the busiest season for a lot of people, and preparing for WordCamp during that time was hard, to say the least.

I also met a team of people from Nagoya who came to attend WordCamp Tokyo. They are starting a local user group there: http://wordbench.org/groups...
Maybe WordCamp Nagoya will happen some day...? :)

My (belated) event report:
http://blog.detlog.org/2009...

Re: Robert@Sanzalone | Test

Laurent Eschenauer — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:31:24 -0000

Not supposed to be like that :-s Maybe a bug due to a different charset ? I'll investigate. When you spot any issue like that, please ping us at support@storytlr.com. Thanks !

Re: Robert@Sanzalone | Test

pacificIT — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:43:19 -0000

Ouch! Body text DOES NOT transfer over. This isn't good if it's ONLY for attachments. Hmmmm.....

Re: Robert@Sanzalone | The Story of Storytlr... so far

pacificIT — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:35:55 -0000

Heh. I can live with it.

BTW, heading over to WordCamp Tokyo this week.

Re: Robert@Sanzalone | The Story of Storytlr... so far

Lloyd Dewolf — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:25:28 -0000

Oh my, the permalink URL is hideous ;-)

Re: Robert@Sanzalone | The Story of Storytlr... so far

GoodPeopleJapan — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:59:52 -0000

Cheers Robert.

Re: Robert@Sanzalone | The Story of Storytlr... so far

alardw — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:12:21 -0000

Wow! Some great observations Robert. Although we have many different ideas and visions about what storytlr could become, we are absolutely not fixed about what it should be and where it should go. It is great to hear from pioneers like yourself what makes sense and what does not. As far as I am concerned anything that helps building your online presence fits our bill. We of course have to make choices since we are doing this next to our regular jobs. Look forward to continuing the conversation and ... we have some neat new features coming up soon.