[OpenID] “OpenID” selected as the 3rd runner up in the 2008 IT Buzz Words in Japan.

[Chris Messina]

I'm wondering how we could repeat this success in the US and elsewhere.
Nat, can you point to any specific outreach/advocacy that lead to this?

Chris

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:41 PM, David Recordon <drecordon at sixapart.com>wrote:

> This is great news!  It's really amazing to see how OpenID continues to
> take off in Japan.
> --David
>
> On Dec 27, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Nat Sakimura wrote:
>
> On Dec. 22, Tokyo IT Newspaper published this year's buzz word ranking. (
> http://itnp.net/category_betsu/24/2167/)
>
> The ranking is done in Sumo Ranking style and they are Ranked as "Yokozuna
> (Grand Champion)", "Ozeki (Champion, 2nd highest rank)", "Sekiwake (Junior
> Champion, 3rd highest rank)" etc.
>
> This year, Yokozuna was iPhone, which was no surprise since it was the
> first year in Japan. Ozeki was Google Street View, which is no surprise
> either.
>
> What surprised me though was the 3rd highest rank, Sekiwake, which turned
> out to be OpenID. It ranked higher than NetBooks (eePCs etc.) or Google
> Chrome, etc.
>
> Anyhow, it is good to hear something that is assuring of our marketing
> activity.
>
> For more details, see
> http://www.sakimura.org/en/modules/wordpress/index.php?p=68
>
> --
> Nat Sakimura (=nat)
> http://www.sakimura.org/en/
> _______________________________________________
> general mailing list
> general at openid.net
> http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> general mailing list
> general at openid.net
> http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general
>
>


-- 
Chris Messina
Citizen-Participant &
 Open Web Advocate-at-Large

factoryjoe.com # diso-project.org
citizenagency.com # vidoop.com
This email is:   [ ] bloggable    [X] ask first   [ ] private
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-general/attachments/20081228/aab892fe/attachment-0002.htm>