As the third in the series of the WJT blogging empire introduction, I proudly present my second site after What Japan Thinks, a simple one-page name generator, this one spewing out a Buddhist name, based on the English translation of the Japanese of the Chinese of the Sanscript names.
I was impressed when I read about characters like Awesome Sound King and Great Universal Wisdom Excellence, so the site is a chance to create a name of Awesome Excellence for yourself.
The second site in the series introducing my blogging empire is BlogOfTrust.com. This is probably my favourite site, and is definitely the highest-earning per visitor, but when you consider it’s just about the least-frequently visited…
The blog is in a niche all of its own when it started out; it specialises in looking at trusted computing matters, in particular the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) – for more information, check out the Wikipedia entry for it that takes the most neutral point of view that it is the spawn of the devil. I chose this subject to blog about as my work is around the TPM area, and whilst if you read the official Trusted Computing Group (TCG) web site you’ll see a nice friendly face, read this article for the true picture.
In my role as a trusted member of the inner circle of the TCG, if I told you what really goes on I’d have to kill you, so please do yourself in after reading this entry. In October, I’ll be heading off to Hawaii for the annual conference, where along with the usual attendees from the US NSA, UK GCHQ and other alphabet soups of spooks, they’ll also be representatives from the Bilderberg Group, the Illuminati, and THRUSH. In between deflowering goats and sacrificing virgins (hmm, let me check these agenda items again) we’ll be discussing flicking the switch on the TPM’s backdoor to auto-erase all your MP3s and AVIs, and Linus Torvalds, who you all think of as the father of Linux will actually reveal his true self as a leader of the lizard people.
New Devil Beam!!(ﾉ^^)ﾉ§==Э‥…━━━★~O~*)ouch♪
^^^Trusted Computing Group ^^^You
As I’m on holiday this week, and as most of the survey companies are too, rather than doing some translation I thought instead I’d introduce a few other web sites in the What Japan Thinks empire. I welcome all comments from my readers about these other sites!
ミ★(=^･･^)v Thanks!!★彡
First up is Evoticon.net, probably the world’s largest collection of Japanese text emoticons, currently with 13,547 entries and will reach around 25,000 by the time I finish. It also features the ability to rate all emoticons, but despite that, in the 20 months the site has been running it’s attracted just 640 ratings!
waa—–｡ﾟ(ﾟ´Д｀ﾟ)ﾟ｡—–aah!!!!
I think the evoticon name is quite clever; I could have been boring and gone for japaneseemoticondictionary.com or the like, but I think evoticon succinctly describes that I offer voting on emoticons. I also went for the .net extension as a .com would have meant …con.com, which just looks messy to me.
Between the 21st and 23rd of June 2010 1,137 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 65.1% of the sample were female, 8.0% in their teens, 20.4% in their twenties, 31.2% in their thirties, 23.9% in their forties, 9.2% in their fifties, and 7.2 aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample. In addition, this question was for females only.
Talking of ogling other women on the beach, here’s an advert for a mobile gaming site:
Between the 21st and 23rd of June 2010 1,137 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 65.1% of the sample were female, 8.0% in their teens, 20.4% in their twenties, 31.2% in their thirties, 23.9% in their forties, 9.2% in their fifties, and 7.2 aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.
I don’t think I suffer from any of the below. Note that Tweeting in the bath is very much possible in Japan as many phones are waterproof, or at least splashproof. Read the rest of this entry »
With smartphones becoming more popular and certain models not having replaceable batteries yet a day of heavy usage is enough to run many of them flat, a public recharging service may become a feature of many city locations. To find out what people thought of this, iShare conducted a survey on the topic.
Demographics
Between the 13th and 16th of July 2010 460 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 56.5% of the sample were male, 30.4% in their twenties, 30.7% in their thirties, and 38.9% on their forties.
Already in Japan in many locations you’ll find mobile phone recharging lockers where for around 100 yen for 20 minutes you can get your battery topped up. Furthermore, docomo mobile phone stores also often have free recharging points, if you don’t mind putting up with being pestered by salespeople. However, mains sockets for general purpose recharging are a rarity, so this survey is looking at the first steps towards public power. Read the rest of this entry »
A few months ago I remember seeing a news segment on internet-based social lending services, but I cannot say the idea appealed to me.
Demographics
Between the 21st and 26th of July 2010 1,073 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.9% of the sample were male, 15.8% were in their teens, 18.5% in their twenties, 20.8% in their thirties, 16.7% in their forties, 16.0% in their fifties, and 12.2% aged sixty or older.
Social lending services are basically online swap services. The one I saw on the television was points-based. Lending stuff out gained you points, borrowing stuff cost you points. Much of the stuff being circulated was household goods; items seemed to spend a month with one family before moving directly on to another, and another. However, rather than being something like, say, a high-end espresso maker, most of the items seemed to be not worth much more than the postage they would cost. Brand clothes and bags seemed to be another line that I could at least understand the attraction of. Read the rest of this entry »
According to recent guidance from the World Health Organisation, they would like member states to limit alcohol promotions, so in Japan the all-too-common nomihodai – all you can drink may very well be in their sights. To find out what the average Japanese person thought of this, iShare conducted a survey into the subject of banning them.
Demographics
Between the 12th and 15th of July 2010 441 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 58.3% of the sample were male, 29.0% in their twenties, 32.9% in their thirties, and 38.1% in their forties.
The usual nomihodai is when you go out for a course meal as a group. An average work outing will be between 2,000 and 5,000 yen for food only, then an all you can drink on top of 1,000 to 2,000 yen. The menu will be quite varied, soft drinks, one or two types of beer, various fruity chu-hai alcopops and other cocktails, a number of types of sake, and whisky, usually with a two-hour limit to match the food. I’ve never seen hot tea or coffee though, now I think about it.
I don’t think many people really abuse it, although Japan has got more of a drinking problem than it wishes to admit to, I think. I’d target effort more towards the cheap gut-rot spirits and the even cheaper supermarket own-brand alcopops that are about five times cheaper per unit than the mainstream beer brands and under the 40p per unit minimum price that the Scottish government is probably going to recommend. Read the rest of this entry »
A recent survey from Yahoo! Japan Value Insight (who seem to have been bought out by Macromill Research) looked at generational differences in thinking for four key generations.
Demographics
Over the 22nd and 23th of June 2010 800 members of the Yahoo! monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. All the respondents lived in Tokyo or one of the three surrounding prefectures of Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba. The four generations were the Bubble generation, people born between 1962 and 1967 and now aged 43 to 48; the Ice Age generation, people born between 1971 and 1975 and now aged 35 to 39; the Yutori (education with breathing space) generation, people born between 1985 and 1990 and now aged 20 to 25; and the Bubble Junior generation, people born between 1992 and 1995 and now aged 15 to 18. For each generation 100 males and 100 females responded.
It’s difficult to draw any conclusions, I feel, from this one snapshot in time. How much of the variation is just down to simple age differences and how much is down to the environment people grew up in? For instance, it’s obvious that younger people would be more keen on having a portable audio player. Read the rest of this entry »
A recent quickie survey from iShare looked at file extensions.
Demographics
Between the 7th and 12th of July 2010 479 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 56.2% of the sample were male, 31.7% in their twenties, 32.2% in their thirties, and 36.1% in their forties.
There’s not really much for me to add to this survey except that I know all the extensions listed below. Read the rest of this entry »
A few months ago I remember seeing a news segment on internet-based 
According to recent guidance from the World Health Organisation, they would like member states to 
A recent quickie survey from iShare looked at 
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