Archive for March, 2009
Power to the people - the Japanese Toolbar belongs to you
On March 25, 2009 in Community building, Japanese Toolbar
I’ve just finished a wiki page for the Japanese Toolbar on JapanSoc.org.
The purpose of this page is to put the creative direction of the toolbar into the hands of the users. It is now more than ever your toolbar!
The goal of this project is also to encourage a “open-source” style of collaboration on Japan-related web projects. (Thanks Nick)
As always I’d looove to hear your feedback!
Have a great day,
DailyJ
update:
On March 18, 2009 in On the J-web
Going once, going twice, gone!
Jamaipanese.com snatched up Gaijinbook.com
And I decided to keep Japanopedia.
I have one more Japan-related domain name that I might be willing to part with if you have a good plan for it. “Japandigger.com”
Email me if you are interested.
Giving away a few Japan-related domain names
On March 18, 2009 in #The Japan-related Web Debate, Announcements, Blog Improvements, Suggestions Please
I have a few domain names that I’d like to give (yes, free) to anyone who will do good with them.
Going forward it will be important for me to focus my time and resources on the areas where I am already providing value (and can provide future value). And I plan to cut everything that doesn’t.
So, here are the domains available (all registered at godaddy):
Japanopedia.org - A Japan encyclopedia project was the original vision. Maybe you can make it work or come up with a better idea for it. Ganbare!
Japanopedia.com - was registered to protect the japanopedia name (which was probably pointless)
gaijinbook.com - I had so many ideas for this site. The first website I ever made was thegaijinbook.com in 2003 with the help of a friend. It was supposed to be a site where foreigners (mostly foreign exchange students) in Japan could post articles talking about their experiences. We even played with the idea of turning some of the experiences into a book (which could be done easily now with lulu) and giving all the published submitters a percentage of sales. But the idea didn’t take off (my vanity would like to think it was ahead of its time) and I moved on to other website projects. We forgot to renew the name and lost it. I always liked the name though and ended up buying gaijinbook.com (which was better anyway). I didn’t have a clear idea for it at first but finally planned to turn into a social networking site for foreigners. Probably not a great idea. I don’t know.
Anyway, maybe you can take it and do something awesome with it.
I’ve never sold or given away a domain before so I am not sure exactly how it works on godaddy although I know you can do it and supposedly it isn’t hard.
SO, if you are interested, just email me about the domain you want and we can figure out how to make the transfer from there.
eaglelandgrace Att gmail
