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

[Drummond Reed]

Congrats on this news, Nat. It's clear OpenID Japan is being highly
successful in getting good buzz for OpenID in the Japanese market.

 

In addition to Chris' questions, are there particular factors about the
Japanese market that you think are involved? What would be required for this
to catch on elsewhere?

 

=Drummond 

 

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From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of Chris Messina
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 9:06 PM
To: Nat Sakimura; david at sixapart.com
Cc: OpenID List
Subject: Re: [OpenID]"OpenID" selected as the 3rd runner up in the 2008 IT
Buzz Words in Japan.

 

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/

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